Frank Beard
Frank Beard was born in Frankston, Texas, United States on June 11th, 1949 and is the Drummer. At the age of 74, Frank Beard biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Frank Lee Beard (born June 11, 1949) is the drummer in the American rock band ZZ Top.
Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellers, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.
Early life
Beard was born in Frankston, Texas, and attended Irving High School in Irving, Texas.
Personal life
Beard married long-time girlfriend Catherine Alexander in April 1978 and divorced July 1981. He married Debbie Meredith in November 1982. They remain married and have three children. Beard resides in Richmond, Texas, where he owns and operates the Top 40 Ranch. He golfs, and is known locally for participation in tournaments and community events. Beard was long known as the only member of ZZ Top not to have a beard, but he grew a short one in 2013.
Career
Beard, a member of a bogus version of the British band the Zombies, performed in the United States without permission from the original band members, and later became part of the Outlaws with then ZZ Top member Dusty Hill.
He appeared in May 1969 with The Moving Sidewalks, a group that would become ZZ Top in July 1969. Gibbons was also introduced to bassist and vocalist Dusty Hill, with whom Beard had appeared in the bands American Blues, Warlocks, and the Cellar Dwellers. They released their first album, ZZ Top's First Album on London Records in 1971, after honing their trademark "Texas boogie-blues-rock" look. Beard was known as "Rube Beard" on the first album and on Tres Hombres, the band's third album, but not under his real name on Rio Grande Mud, the band's second album. On all the band's albums after Tres Hombres, he was credited as "Frank Beard" on the band's albums.
Beard started investing a lot of money on opioids, including LSD, cocaine, and opium, following his early success with ZZ Top in the late 1970s. He later regretted investing the money and said it had damaged his marriages. He started a rehabilitation program. "I just wanted to get sober," he said. "I wanted to be like people I admired that could sit down and watch television and go to bed, and that was fine [for them]. For three years, ZZ Top went on hiatus while Beard dealt with his heroin use.