Editing ZZ Top (section)

== Drug use ==
Beard struggled with addiction in the 1970s, claiming to have spent "every bit" of his money earned from ZZ Top's tours on drugs. Beard explains that he had different reasons for taking different drugs, saying "the pills thing came about just from the workload. And the [[heroin]] thing came about because I just liked it. I mean, you ever done heroin? It's great. It's a fucking vacation for the mind, and I liked it. I liked it a lot." Beard entered rehabilitation in the 1980s and was sober as of 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kielty |first=Martin|title=ZZ Top's Frank Beard Details '70s Heroin Addiction: 'A Regret' |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/zz-top-frank-beard-heroin/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=February 26, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

Hill would "[occasionally] partake" in [[marijuana]] until one occasion in a hotel in [[Amsterdam]], when Hill was smoking marijuana with guitar tech Elwood Francis and Francis noticed that a metal bar was embedded into the window frame of the hotel room. Francis, seeing an opportunity for a prank, jumped out the window and (unbeknownst to Hill) grabbed onto the metal bar, making it appear that he had committed suicide. Hill apparently never smoked marijuana again after the incident.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elwood Francis on Instagram: "So I'm in Dusty's room on the third floor of a hotel in Amsterdam. It's early summer, fantastic weather outside and the windows were open. Dust didn't smoke weed but on occasion in Amsterdam, he would partake. This was one of those occasions. It was only Dusty, the TM, and myself armed with a single joint. We slowly puffed a drag or two each and we're probably talking about Andy Griffith or something similar... just casual conversation. I walked over to the window and while looking out noticed this metal bar embedded in the concrete as part of the window frame. It was extended outside the window just below the bottom of the frame. I pulled around on the bar and checked its stability, then sat back down. After I passed the joint to Dusty on the next round, I got up and jumped out the window. They can't see that I had grabbed the rail with my hand as I was passing over it and was just hanging there like I would on monkey bars. Dusty and Pablo freaked out and jumped up not knowing what the heck to do. They ran over to the window expecting to see me splattered on the sidewalk, but found me hanging there, laughing. They both just remained confused about what happened while I popped back inside. Dusty didn't smoke weed anymore after that. Nor did he let me around any open windows. One of me best pranks, it was." |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CR5VMiDs4TM/ |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=Instagram |language=en}}</ref>