ZZ Top announce drummer Frank Beard has stepped away from their tour due to health reasons

ZZ Top announce drummer Frank Beard has stepped away from their tour due to health reasons

ZZ Top have announced that drummer Frank Beard has stepped away from the band’s current tour due to health reasons.

A band statement is

“Shelter Music Group, ZZ Top‘s Management, has announced the band‘s drummer, Frank Beard, has temporarily stepped away from the current tour to attend a health issue requiring his focus in the near term.

Beard, along with fellow ZZ Top members, Billy 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.

Mr. Douglas has maintained a close relationship with Beard and the bandmates, having served with the group in the past.

Douglas actually filled in when Frank underwent in an emergency appendectomy in Paris, back in 2002.

He is looking forward to a speedy recovery.”

ZZ Top announce drummer Frank Beard has stepped away from their tour due to health reasons