ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard steps away from the band to deal with a ‘health procedure’
ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is stepping away from the band’s Elevation tour to undergo a procedure related to his health.
Beard “has temporarily stepped away from the current tour to attend to a health issue requiring his attention in the near term,” the band’s management company posted Saturday on X (formerly Twitter).
Music
Dusty Hill, the bearded bass player from the band ZZ Top, passed away at the age of 72 in his Houston residence, as confirmed by the Texas blues-rock group.
“Beard, along with fellow ZZ Top members Billy F. Gibbons and Elwood Francis, presently on the Elevation tour since March 5, have engaged fellow Texan and longtime tech member, percussionist and drummer, John Douglas, for the interim.”
Douglas previously filled in for Beard in 2002 when the latter had an emergency appendectomy in Paris.
The lead bassist of the band, Dusty Hill, passed away in 2021. He was 72 years old, and his death signified the conclusion of the group’s remarkable 51-year journey with its founding members: Hill, Gibbons, and Beard.
Francis, who had been working as a guitar technician with the band, started covering Hill’s gigs shortly before his death and has wound up staying in the role.
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“When I first started doing it, Dusty was just sick and going home for a few weeks. It was entirely different; I was just helping out,” he told Guitar World last summer. He said at first he didn’t have to worry about the “weight of the crown” because he was just helping out. But stepping into the role wasn’t easy.
Francis expressed surprise, saying, “It’s really strange to me, their bass player is named Dusty, and I’m not the bassist. I don’t belong in the band. I’ve never been part of the band. It’s just not my place in the band, it’s all about Dusty.
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2025-03-17 20:39