ZZ Top subsequent tour, the band performed sold-out concerts in the US. ZZ Top recorded the live tracks for their 1975 album, "Fandango!", during this tour. "Fandango!" was a top-ten album; its single "Tush" peaked at number 20 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. "Tejas", released in 1976, was not as successful or as positively received as their previous efforts, although the album went to number 17 on the "Billboard" 200. ZZ Top continued the Worldwide Texas Tour in support of "Tejas", though they had been touring for seven years. The band then went on what was supposed to be a 90-day break
Famous Maroon Band were thenceforth nicknamed the "Famous Forty". Later on in the 1930s a sportswriter referred to the band as the "Famous Maroon Band" and the name stuck. In the university's new Junction area outside Davis Wade Stadium, the Famous Maroon Band performs and cheers on the crowds and the team at Dawg Walk. The MSU Drumline also performs in exhibition in front of the Leo Seal M Club Centre two hours before kickoff. One hour before the game begins, the band parades through the Junction into Davis Wade Stadium. Before kickoff at Davis Wade Stadium, the band performs its annual pregame