ZZ Top debut album, the band released "Rio Grande Mud" (1972), which failed commercially and the promotional tour consisted of mostly empty auditoriums. ZZ Top released "Tres Hombres" in 1973. The album's sound was the result of the propulsive support provided by Hill and Beard, and Gibbons' "growling" guitar tone. Dan Erlewine wrote that the album "brought ZZ Top their first Top Ten record, making them stars in the process". The album included the boogie-driven "La Grange" (written about the Chicken Ranch, a notorious brothel in La Grange, Texas, that also inspired the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"). On the
The Tripp in May 1967 to play with Ricky James Matthews in The Mynah Byrds and then Bruce Cockburn’s band, The Flying Circus. Dennis Pendrith from Simon Caine & The Catch replaced him and later that month the band changed name again to Livingston’s Tripp and then Livingston’s Journey. ^Bob Ablack "I Don’t Love You" / "I Can Tell" (Quality 1738) 1965 - single The Tripp The Tripp, known earlier as The Just Us and later Livingston's Journey, was a Canadian rock band, based in Toronto, Ontario from the mid-1960s, featuring Neil Merryweather and Stan Endersby. Keyboard player Ed Roth, drummer Bob