" Funny, I saw Roy Buchanan twice at the 'Dillo in the 70s. I'm going to bet a basket of nachos and a Shiner bock that HFWR went to some concerts at the 'Dillo"
CaliforniaDreamer,
I saw those shows and another of his near his home in the D.C. area before moving to Austin after Woodstock '67
That was the Armidillo World Headquarters in Austin where I hung out for the better part of a decade. 'though Roy was good, he was just a guitar mechanic in my humble opinion.
I watched Stevie Ray Vaugh mature into a master. During his days playing every Thurdsay at the Rome Inn he went through a Hendrix period. As much as I was overwhelmed by Jimi I had to admit that Stevie was as god if not better, but such cannot be quantified.
The music scene in Austin is alive but not for me anylonger. Whatever is left of the 'old Austin' laid back progressive music scene is a 30 min to 1 hour drive west. I will not name the venues but if P.M. ed I will give the seeker searcher a list of where such can be found today.
Do I get some Nachos for that ?
Someone opined about the sexual revolution of the '60s. The peak of sexual promuscuity was during the days of Quaaludes - remember ? - I still resonate from that when I think back. The years '69 - '71 come to mind.
I left the States in '70 and backpacked through 35 countries for two years before returning to Austin in '72.
Two of the faithful here PMed me about the Woodstock files I have - I am now going through my hundreds of MP3 data disks and putting all on my big hard drive. I collected about 45,000 tracks during the Napster days. The Woodstock files are on three disks - give me a couple of weeks. I will send them by snail mail to each of you unless several more folks here message me - if that happens the first two might need to send two burned copies to two others. The files are in MP3 format and the sources are mostly good bootlegs and but some are commercial. Listening time is about 35 hours. Some real surprises - Richie Havens first of two numbers he played comes to mind and Santana had about three or four great tunes never recorded.
The Joan Baez performance was a real highlight of Friday as was Arlo and Richie. The complete performance of CSN&Y come to mind as being a great set.
At the time driving north wet and spacey, it took me 3 hours to restore my hearing (those Marshall amps) and thought that that was surely the end of a good thing we had going. However over the next few years as the hippie phenom grew, I figured differently. Now however, I think I was correct that day after all.
As Oat Willie said, " Onward Through the Fog" ( a rememberance from the good old days in Austin)
Yee Haw
