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Beard performing with ZZ Top in 2014. Before joining ZZ Top, Beard was a member of a fake version of the British band the Zombies, which toured in the US without authorization from the original band members, and also was part of the Outlaws with later ZZ Top member Dusty Hill. [1]
ZZ Top [a] is an American rock band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969. It consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard, and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill for 51 years until Hill's death in 2021.
Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969, and quickly settled on bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank "Rube" Beard, both members of the band American Blues. After honing their trademark blues-rock style, they released ZZ Top's First Album on London Records in 1971. Although all three members were born in 1949, Gibbons was the youngest member ...
The Texas group featured bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard, soon to be members of ZZ Top. [39] Another group toured in 1988, going so far as to not only trademark the group's name (the real band had let it lapse) but also recruit a bass guitarist named Ronald Hugh Grundy, claiming that original drummer Hugh Grundy had switched instruments.
Hill, Rocky, and the future ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard played in local Dallas bands the Warlocks, the Cellar Dwellers, and American Blues. [8] From 1966 to 1968, American Blues played the Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston circuit. In 1969, Hill was a member of a fake version of the British band the Zombies with Beard. [9]
American Blues was an American 1960s Texas-based rock band which played a psychedelic style of blues rock music influenced by the 13th Floor Elevators.They are most notable for including two future members of the band ZZ Top in their ranks, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. [1]
Jazz keyboardist Jim Beard, who played with Steely Dan for more than a decade, has died. The rock band confirmed Beard's death on its website. Jim Beard, longtime keyboardist for Steely Dan, dies ...
Members of the Texas rock band ZZ Top. Pages in category "ZZ Top members" ... Frank Beard (musician) E. Billy Etheridge; F. Elwood Francis; G. Billy Gibbons;