Aerosmith/ZZ Top announce tour dates

Aerosmith and ZZ Top have officially announced the tour dates for their upcoming summer tour.
The tour begins on June 10th in St. Louis and is currently scheduled to run through September 16th in Detroit. Dates have been announced but the venues have not, and more shows are planned to be announced.
According to Billboard.com, Joe Perry is excited about working with ZZ Top:
“To have to follow them is gonna be a mouthful every night… and I know it’s gonna kick us into overdrive. That sounds like a cliche, but when you play with a band like that…we’ll be out listening a lot ’cause I love them. I always have. And I love Billy (Gibbon)’s playing. So we’ve got our work cut out for us, and the audience gets the benefit.”
Billboard also divulges that the group has “around 40 dates on the books” and their is a possibility of the tour going to South America, Europe and possibly Japan.
Aerosmith has been working on their latest album, a follow up to 2004′s “Honkin’ On Bobo”, but they have delayed work on the album to prepare for the tour. Here are the dates that have been announced:
June 10: St. Louis (without ZZ Top)
June 13: East Troy, Wisc. (without ZZ Top)
June 16: Boston
June 21: Washington, D.C.
June 24: Pittsburgh
June 26: Wantagh, N.Y.
June 28: Uncasville, Conn.
July 1: Cincinnati
July 3: Hershey, Pa.
July 5: Virginia Beach, Va.
July 7: Raleigh, N.C.
July 9: Charlotte, N.C.
July 11: Tampa,
July 13: Ft. Lauderdale
July 15: Atlanta
July 17: Houston
July 19: Dallas
July 25: Las Vegas
July 27: Phoenix
July 30: Tulsa
Aug 1: Denver
Aug 17: Seattle
Aug 19: Concord, Calif.
Aug 23: Irvine, Calif.
Aug 28: Chicago
Aug 30: Indianapolis
Sept 1: Kansas City, Mo.
Sept 3: Toronto
Sept 5: Ottawa
Sept 8: St. Paul, Minn.
Sept 10: Cleveland
Sept 12: Holmdel, N.J.
Sept 16: Detroit

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