ZZ Top’s Frank Beard Announces Leave of Lack Due to ‘Health Concern’

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard will be missing from the group’s upcoming trip strategies, pointing out a “health concern” as the factor for his newly-announced leave of lack.

The Texas trio revealed the news on Saturday (March 15), describing that Beard would be missing from the group’s present Elevation trip due to the requirement to go through an undefined health treatment.

” Shelter Music Group, ZZ Top’s management, has actually revealed the band’s drummer, Mr. Frank Beard, has actually momentarily stepped far from the present trip to participate in a health concern needing his focus in the near term,” a social media post from the band read.

” Beard, together with fellow ZZ Top members Billy F Gibbons and Elwood Francis, currently on the Elevation trip because March 5, have actually engaged fellow Texan and long time tech member, percussionist and drummer, John Douglas, for the interim.”.

The post kept in mind that Douglas has actually “kept a close relationship with Beard and the bandmates,” and had actually even beinged in for Beard throughout a Paris efficiency in October 2002 when he went through an emergency situation appendectomy.

” He is anticipating a rapid healing,” the post concluded.

ZZ Top introduced their Elevation trip in October 2024, and visited throughout the U.S. till November. The trek resumed on March 5, and will see the group carrying out throughout the nation till April, when they check out Australia and New Zealand. Additional North American dates will be held upon their return, though it’s presently unidentified when Beard will resume his location behind the package.

Beard has actually been the drummer of ZZ Top because 1969, when he took over from co-founder Dan Mitchell. Together with singer and guitar player Billy Gibbons, Mitchell and bassist Lanier Greig had actually established the band that exact same year.

Following Grieg’s replacement by Billy Ethridge, Dusty Hill presumed the function of bassist in 1970, with their lineup staying the same for 51 years till Hill’s death at 72 in 2021. Elwood Francis has actually because acted as the group’s bassist.

The group have actually not launched a studio album because 2012’s La Futura, though Gibbons has claimed a brand-new record including contributions from the late Hill remains in the works.