Rumor’s spreadin’ ’spherical that ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has left the band’s Elevation Tour to give attention to an unspecified “well being situation.”
The Texas trio’s reps mentioned Saturday that its co-founder “has quickly stepped away from the present tour to attend a well being situation requiring his focus within the close to time period” and is “wanting ahead to a speedy restoration.”
John Douglas, a longtime tech member of the Texas boogie band, will man the drum package within the interim. He performed with ZZ High again in 2002 when Beard underwent an emergency appendectomy in Paris.
The band’s Elevation Tour kicked off March 5 in Alabama and is slated to run by April 12 in Arkansas.
ZZ High was shaped in 1969 in Houston, that includes Beard alongside singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons and bassist-singer Dusty Hill. They went on to turn into one in all rock’s best-loved trios — and bands — with their large success driven by signature videos that then-nascent MTV performed in heavy rotation. And Hill and Gibbons’ signature beards. They lengthy had thought of the rock band with the longest-tenured authentic lineup till Hill died in 2021 at 72. Elwood Francis has performed bass for the group since Hill demise.
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Recognized for such traditional tracks as “La Grange,” “Tush,” “Low-cost Sun shades,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Legs” and lots of others, ZZ High has launched 15 studio albums throughout its profession — together with half reside/half-studio album Fandango! They’ve offered greater than 25 million data within the U.S. alone, per the RIAA, seven of LPs going platinum or multiplatinum, with 4 others going gold. The group was featured within the 2019 documentary ZZ High: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas, which scored a Grammy nom for Finest Music Movie.
