Frank Beard

Songwriter + Drummer + Guitarist

Male

Born Jun 11, 1949

Age 63

Hometown Frankston, Texas

Genres Rock music + Blue...

Instruments Tuba + Saxophone ...

Performed With ZZ Top + American...

Record Label London Records

Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the American rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy… Read More

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Dating 1965 - Present

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Steven Rosen: The 30 Best Post 50 Albums Of 2012
Huffington Post - Jan 04, 2013

(Written/Compiled for Rock's Backpages, www.rocksbackpages.com) THE 84 ROCK'S BACKPAGES contributors -- and other invited music aficionados who participated in its second Senior Moments poll -- had a heap of fun with their list titles. As if "senior moments" and "silver-haired top tens" (both coined by RBP's editorial director Barney Hoskyns) weren't sly enough, David Quantick came up with the wonderful acronym MOPO -- "Music of Older People Origin." Robert (Robot) Hull rather...
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My, What A Busy Week!
The Portland Mercury - Aug 16, 2012

No rest for the busy! THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 TERRIBLE TEDS—The best Portland writers/fake experts in the areas of "humor, science, history, child slavery, personal empowerment, and death" are coming together to present pugnacious PowerPoints that spoof TED Talks (long overdue). Among others, this installment of CHAD Chats features cartoonist Mark Russell answering the age-old question "What Is the Bible?" and author Mykle Hansen on "Death:...
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Zz Top At Mgm Grand At Foxwoods Aug. 26 Hartford Courant
Google News - Aug 26, 2011

ZZ Top, the Texas trio of Billy Gibbons on guitar, Dusty Hill on Bass and Frank Beard on drums bring theirblues roots music Ives Concert Park in Danbury Aug. 25 and at MGM Grand at Foxwoods Aug. 26. The band has been together with the same lineup since
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Zz Top At Mgm Grand At Foxwoods Aug. 26 Hartford Courant
Google News - Aug 25, 2011

ZZ Top, the Texas trio of Billy Gibbons on guitar, Dusty Hill on Bass and Frank Beard on drums bring theirblues roots music Ives Concert Park in Danbury Aug. 25 and at MGM Grand at Foxwoods Aug
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1949 Birth Born on June 11, 1949.

TWENTIES

1969 20 Years Old Beard was born in Frankston, Texas and attended Irving High School in Irving, Texas. In late 1969 he joined The Moving Sidewalks guitarist and vocalist Gibbons' ZZ Top. … Read More

1971 22 Years Old 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. … Read More

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