Frank Beard (musician) played in the bands American Blues, the Warlocks, and the Cellar Dwellers. 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. When ZZ Top started, Beard was known by the nickname "Rube" and was credited as "Rube Beard" on the first album and on "Tres Hombres", the band's third album, but is listed under his real name on "Rio Grande Mud", their second album. After "Tres Hombres", he was credited as "Frank Beard" on all the band's albums. Ironically, despite his last name he is the only
Charles Lafontaine his countenance "rather austere, perhaps thoughtful", and his beard was "prodigious". Given the English fashion of the day for a clean-shaven face, Lafontaine’s beard was a subject of some considerable notoriety when he arrived in England — Spencer Timothy Hall's description of Lafontaine at a "conversazione" in 1841 is typical: Richard Harte, former journalist with the "New York Telegram", one-time member of the Theosophical Society Adyar (1877-1893), a former editor and regular contributor (often under the "nom de guerre" "D.C.K.") to "The Theosophist", and author of "The New Psychology", observed that, He was introduced to mesmerism in Brussels, in 1831,