Las Vegas Weekly

August 22, 2010 · 8:23 PM

Photos: ZZ Top are the three sharp dressed men at Las Vegas Hilton

By Don Chareunsy

ZZ Top at Las Vegas Hilton on Aug. 20, 2010.

Photo: Scott Harrison/Retna/www.harrisonphotos.com

By Don Chareunsy, Vegas DeLuxe editor

ZZ Top, the trio who formed 41 years ago in Houston, performed back-to-back concerts at the Las Vegas Hilton on Friday and last night, and lead vocalist and guitarist Billy Gibbons, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Dusty Hill and drummer and percussionist Frank Beard (appropriately, that is his name) continue to prove that the Southern rockers’ career has, ahem, legs.

Hits by the Class of 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Famers include the aforementioned “Legs,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Gimme All Your Lovin,” “Sleeping Bag,” “Rough Boy” and “Velcro Fly. The band’s first Top 20 hit was “Tush” in 1975, and 1983’s monster album Eliminator has sold more than 10 million copies.

Thanks to contributing photographer Scott Harrison for his photo gallery of the Texas trio in concert during their Friday night performance.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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