In the 47 years since ZZ Top set off on their Worldwide Texas Tour, their outrageously over-the-top trek has passed into legend.
The band’s mission was to “bring Texas to the people”, and they certainly succeeded in that: as well as a 35-ton stage in the shape of the Lone Star State, they also took along a veritable menagerie of Texan critters including a buffalo, a Longhorn steer, several venomous rattlesnakes, some tarantulas, and six vultures all called Oscar. But even the band couldn’t have foreseen the original 33-date tour mutating into a record-breaking 18-month behemoth.
