Rumor’s spreadin’ ’spherical that ZZ High drummer Frank Beard has left the band’s Elevation Tour to deal with an unspecified “well being problem.”
The Texas trio’s reps mentioned Saturday that its co-founder “has quickly stepped away from the present tour to attend a well being problem 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 means of 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 change into one among rock’s best-loved trios — and bands — with their huge success pushed by signature movies that then-nascent MTV performed in heavy rotation. And Hill and Gibbons’ signature beards. They lengthy had thought-about the rock band with the longest-tenured unique lineup till Hill died in 2021 at 72. Elwood Francis has performed bass for the group since Hill dying.
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ZZ High has launched 15 studio albums throughout its profession — together with half dwell/half-studio album Fandango! — promoting greater than 25 million data within the U.S. alone, per the RIAA. Seven of their LPs, together with two hits compilations, are 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 Greatest Music Movie.
