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Encyclopedia > Frank Beard (musician)
This article is about the drummer with the group ZZ Top. For the golfer, see 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. A drummer in Action A drummer is a person who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ... In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. ... Frank Beard (b. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Frankston is a town located in Anderson County, Texas. ... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... A drummer in Action A drummer is a person who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ... ZZ Top is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. ... “Sound recorder” redirects here. ... Billy F. Gibbons (born December 16, 1949), nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is best known as the guitarist for that Little Ol band from Texas, ZZ Top. ... Joe Michael Dusty Hill (born May 19, 1949, in Dallas, Texas, USA) is bassist and vocalist with Texas Boogie-Blues-Rock group 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. Irving High school is a public high school in Irving, Texas. ... Mustangs at Las Colinas Streetscape along Las Colinas Blvd in North Irving Aerial shot of Irving/Las Colinass Urban Center. ... Moving Sidewalks was a 1960s psychedelic blues-rock band, most notable for giving future ZZ Top-guitarist Billy Gibbons his start in the music business. ... the very definition of a guitarist is cody allen and taylor hines because of there un ending guitar skills and awsomnes. ... A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. ... ||/ | @___oo / / / (__,,,,| ) /^) ^/ _) ) /^/ _) ) _ / / _) / )// || | )_) < > |(,,) )__) || / )___) | ____( )___) )___ ______(_______;;; __;;; A bassist is not a musician, so much as a guy or girl trying to play an instrument with four strings and a long neck. ... American Blues were a 1960s Texas based garage band who played a psychedelic style of blues rock music influenced by the 13th Floor Elevators. ... Moving Sidewalks was a 1960s psychedelic blues-rock band, most notable for giving future ZZ Top-guitarist Billy Gibbons his start in the music business. ... ZZ Tops First Album is the debut album by American blues-rock ZZ Top, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music). ... London Records is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 through the 1980s. ...


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). A man with a full beard A beard is the hair that grows on a mans chin, cheeks, neck, and the area above the upper lip (the opposite is a clean-shaven face). ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Edgar Allan Poe had a simple moustache. ...

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Frank Beard, born June 11, 1949 in 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.
Ironically, Beard is the only member of the band who does not have a beard.
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