ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd will perform as the headliners at MGK’s Big Gig 2023 as part of the Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour.

The annual celebration of Philly’s best classic rock station will take place at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on the Camden Waterfront on September 17, 2023. Tickets are on sale now to see the tour’s only stop in the Philadelphia area.

ZZ Top

“That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” formed in 1969, and they exploded four years later with the release of Tres Hombres featuring hits like “La Grange” and “Waitin’ For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago.”

Eliminator in 1983 featured some of their most recognizable hits like “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “Sharp Dressed Man.”

When you think of ZZ Top, you probably picture a bunch of impressively groomed beards and fine-tuned automobiles. Billy Gibbons has the rock star look about him, and he’ll certainly rock the stage at Big Gig like it’s still the 1970s.

The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour

The two Rock & Roll giants have begun the cleverly-named “Sharp Dressed, Simple Man Tour.” The name is an homage to one hit single from each of the two bands.  Their first tour together will include stops in 22 cities in the United States. They’ll save the best for last, as MGK Big Gig will be their final show.

ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd, with special guest Uncle Kracker, kicked off the tour on Friday, July 21 at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida. The setlists from both bands included some of their biggest hits. However, they also did an excellent job of mixing in some of their lesser-known work.

Their trip to Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in September will continue a tradition that’s become the signature event of 102.9 WMGK.

Take a peek at the ZZ Top setlist from the tour’s first show to warm up. Then, move over to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s setlist next.

• 1. Got Me Under Pressure

   

  She likes the art museum, she don’t like Pavlov’s dog
  She fun at the mind museum, she likes it in a London fog
  She don’t like other women, she likes whips and chains
  She likes cocaine and filppin’ out with great Danes
  She’s about all I can handle, it’s too much for my brain

• 2. I Thank You

   

  You didn’t have to shake it but you did
  But you did but you did
  And I thank you.
  You didn’t have to make it like you did
  but you did but you did
  And I thank you.

• 3. Waitin' For the Bus

   

  Have mercy, old bus be packed up tight
  Well, I’m glad just to get on and home tonight

• 4. Jesus Just Left Chicago

   

  Took a jump through Mississippi
  Muddy water turned to wine
  Yeah, yeah
  Then out to California through the forests and the pines
  Ah, take me with you, Jesus

• 5. Gimme All Your Lovin'

   

  Gimme all your lovin’
  All your hugs and kisses too
  Gimme all your lovin’
  Don’t let up until we’re through

• 6. Pearl Necklace

   

  She was really bombed
  And I was really blown away
  Until I asked her what she wanted
  And this is what she had to say

• 7. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide

   

  Well, I was rolling down the road
  In some cold blue steel
  I had a blues man on the back
  And a beautician at the wheel
  We going downtown
  In the middle of the night
  We laughing and I’m joking
  And we feeling alright

• 8. I Gotsta Get Paid

   

  I got 25 lighters on my dressa, dressa
  You know I gotta get paid
  Zig and me is climbing out 25 doors
  Representing for the doors that holdin’ 25 more

• 9 My Head's in Mississippi

   

  I keep thinkin’ ’bout that night in Memphis
  I thought I was in Heaven
  But I was stumblin’ thru the parking lot
  Of an invisible seven eleven

• 10. Sixteen Tons

   

  You load 16 tons, what do you get?
  Another day older and deeper in debt
  St. Peter, don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
  I owe my soul to the company store

• 11. Just Got Paid

   

  I should grow up some day ’cause I got bills to pay
  I can’t be waking up at someone else’s place
  I know I drink too much, can’t pay my rent this month
  I should be saving up, but

  I just got paid
  I’m broke, but I’m balling
  Don’t know where we’re going
  We go in when we go out

• 12. Sharp Dressed Man

   

  Clean shirt, new shoes
  And I don’t know where I am goin’ to
  Silk suit, black tie (black tie)
  I don’t need a reason why
  They come runnin’ just as fast as they can
  ‘Cause every girl crazy ’bout a sharp-dressed man

• 13. Legs

   

  Every time she’s dancin’, she knows what to do
  Everybody wants to see if she can use it
  She’s so fine, she’s all mine

• 14. Brown Sugar

   

  My friends, they all told me
  Man, there’s somethin’ gonna change your life
  Gotta have that brown sugar
  Man, it’s just gonna change my life

• 15. Tube Snake Boogie

   

  I got a gal, she lives on the block
  She kinda funky with her pink and black socks, she likes to boogie
  She do the tube snake boogie

• 16. La Grange

   

  Rumor spreadin’ ’round
  In that Texas town
  About that shack outside La Grange
  And you know what I’m talkin’ about
  Just let me know if you wanna go
  To that home out on the range
  They got a lot of nice girls

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