So much history packed in here! My very rascist father moved is from Austin to Tyler when I was 11, when busing to integrate schools was due to start - 1971. I came back in 1978 and began learning what was really happening here in my lifetime. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein kicks off with a focus on Austin and redlining history.
Jeff Nightbyrd. There's a name I haven't heard in a long-ass time! He started the Austin Sun, the precursor of the Austin Chronicle. He and Stoney Burns were good friends. Someday I need to start my own blog about the Dallas-Fort Worth music scene. (You've inspired me, Michael.) Meanwhile, here's a good little primer. https://youtu.be/qE685huw4mU
Wow! Such great history. Our band (The Rolling Kegs!) played the Pink Lizard several times in 1968. There was barely room on the mini bandstand for a 4-piece group so the table shuffleboard could have ample space! It was raucous in there.
Wow! That’s amazing. I’m pretty sure most of our “listeners” were pretty inebriated and can remember very little from those days. 🎉Sending you a Friend request on Fbook.
It was Don Weedon’s gas station.
An important detail
Little known fact, Charles Whitman was a counterdemonstrator at Roys. https://books.google.com/books?id=iZwqKBgpfR8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA213&dq=sds%20university%20texas%20austin%20tom%20hayden%20jeff%20nightbyrd&pg=PA175#v=onepage&q=whitman&f=false
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So much history packed in here! My very rascist father moved is from Austin to Tyler when I was 11, when busing to integrate schools was due to start - 1971. I came back in 1978 and began learning what was really happening here in my lifetime. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein kicks off with a focus on Austin and redlining history.
Cool post, Michael. Good to see this article online. Great job, man.
I still need to e-mail you my photo of Jesse Sublett playing with The Skunks.
("Earthquake Shake")
Jeff Nightbyrd. There's a name I haven't heard in a long-ass time! He started the Austin Sun, the precursor of the Austin Chronicle. He and Stoney Burns were good friends. Someday I need to start my own blog about the Dallas-Fort Worth music scene. (You've inspired me, Michael.) Meanwhile, here's a good little primer. https://youtu.be/qE685huw4mU
Wow! Such great history. Our band (The Rolling Kegs!) played the Pink Lizard several times in 1968. There was barely room on the mini bandstand for a 4-piece group so the table shuffleboard could have ample space! It was raucous in there.
I remember the Rolling Kegs! One of the band worked at the Canterbury Shoppe in NorthPark and was killed in an auto accident I recall. 😢
My relatives, by marriage, including my late wife, marched against Austin segregation in the 1960's (and knew Ben Barnes, too). Nice note, thank you.
Wow! That’s amazing. I’m pretty sure most of our “listeners” were pretty inebriated and can remember very little from those days. 🎉Sending you a Friend request on Fbook.