TDC... Frank Beard, 77

[Steve Haynie]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/08/18/frank-beard-zz-top-dies/91311435007/ 

 

[Disturber]

Sad. There are two drummers from the 1970s who could create extreme greatness, anchoring the band, with what seems like very little effort and a lot of swing. Creating a totally unique sound for their bands just as important as the guitar riffs and lead vocals. You know it's them behind the kit from the first bar of the song. That is Frank Beard and Phil Rudd.

RIP. Legend.

[Saul Goodman]

Goddammit. I'm tired of this getting old shit.

[mrjamiam]

RIP Frank.  Same three guys, same three chords had a good run.

[DaveH]

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/frank-beard-zz-top-drummer-dies/

Just saw this. 77 isn't *that* old (funny how your perception changes as you get older.) RIP

[Biz Prof]

RIP.

Well, this should be the retirement signal for Billy Gibbons. End of an era.

[Willie G. Moseley]

The gears in BFG's brain are always turning, I predict he'll come up with something that will keep him active and in the public eye but able to go at his own pace. Whatever he comes up with, if not a-one-original-member ZZ TOP, will still be innovative, with great guitar tones (I'm surprised at how much I enjoy Raw). Non-stop activity is simply Gibbons' style.  David Blayney's  Sharp Dressed Men (a 1994 tome) would have a reader think Gibbons and Ham were "management" and Hill and Beard were "labor". I agree with that observation, and had read the book back then on BFG's recommendation.

[Dutchman]

Billy's been doing some stuff with Guthrie Trapp kind of a tex mex style. I like it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gPGmGbVro

Edited 12 hours ago by Dutchman

[veatch]

RIP

 

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[specialk]

 

[topekatj]

[Willie G. Moseley]

[Spinaltap]

RIP, it was a great run...

[gorch]

Un Hombre

[cmatthes]

They were always a fun band live…R.I.P. “Rube”…