HOUSTON, Texas – July 2019 — Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, ZZ Top—long comprised of the classic trio of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard—is celebrating its 50th anniversary by currently trekking through a world tour that runs into mid-October. As a thank you to its fans in Texas, where the band got its humble start back in 1969, the tour kicked off with three consecutive shows in the Lone Star state, all of which were reinforced by Houston-based LD Systems with a long throw L-Acoustics K Series loudspeaker rig.
Sharing the bill with Bad Company, and joined by opener Cheap Trick, ZZ Top performed to full crowds at Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion, Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, and the Austin360 Amphitheater in May, prior to heading to Europe.
LD Systems Audio Crew Chief and Systems Engineer Julian Gates, who expresses his appreciation for Soundvision’s new Autosolver tools, created the system design for the shows. “It’s amazing how close...
