The Zac Brown Band‘s eight-show residency during December and January at Sphere in Las Vegas was the group’s most conceptually ambitious to date, a visually rich and personal, often autobiographical treatise over the course of more than two dozen songs.
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You had to be there to see it, of course, but Brown says the ZBB’s upcoming Love & Fear Tour — which begins July 17 in Grand Rapids, Mich. — will bring a taste of that production to fans around the country.“We had to put together something that would be interesting if somebody did come see us at Sphere but also give a little taste for the people that didn’t,” Brown tells Billboard via phone from his getaway home in Alaska. “There’s some of the beautiful stuff that we want to share, with narration and the story that kind of threads through; I told so much of my personal story, of when I was a kid and my life and the things that happened along that way that drove me toward music. But we also need a fresh show for everybody.
“We don’t have four acres of video to use out there, so we definitely borrowed some of the visual elements, scaled down to what they can be in an arena or in a shed or baseball stadium or wherever. So, quality, memories — we want people to be able to come and make amazing memories with their people and remember being there so they have a little something to put in their pocket for later in the year. I know it’s a weird market right now, with the economy and everything the way that it is, but we put a lot of work and love into trying to bring a little relief to the people who are out there.”
