Drummers - Frank Beard
Frank Lee Beard (born 11 June 1949, Frankston, Texas) is
the drummer in the blues-rock band, ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with The
Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and The American Blues
bands before starting to perform and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty
Hill as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas," officially known as ZZ Top.
Beard attended Irving High School in Irving, Texas. In late 1969 he
helped The Moving Sidewalks guitarist and vocalist Gibbons to form ZZ
Top, then joined by bassist and vocalist Dusty Hill (with whom Beard had
played in the bands American Blues, the Warlocks, and the Cellar
Dwellers) and The Moving Sidewalks. After honing their trademark Texas
Boogie-Blues-Rock style, they released their aptly titled "ZZ Top's
First Album" on London Records in January, 1971.
Oddly enough, Beard is the only member of ZZ Top who does not have a
beard. (though he went through a phase in the 1990s with a short beard,
but usually sports merely a moustache).
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Beard_%28musician%29
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