Austin City Limits

~terry Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:12) seed

Austin City Limits is all many folks know about Austin. If you're lucky you can get tickets and be in the audience I hear (one of these days). What a great venue for the Austin music scene. Long live Austin City Limits.

~riette Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (10:11) #1

Is that a pop group?? I thought it was too hot in Austin for people to have the energy to sing.

~aschuth Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (14:52) #2

But you can grow beards and drive cars with blackened windows...

~MarciaH Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (19:43) #3

Austin City Limits is as close to Austin as I have gotten. Gotta fix that!

~terry Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (00:08) #4

Please do! We'll show you the town!

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (00:11) #5

*smile* I like that thought...hang onto it for me!

~aschuth Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (15:52) #6

And perhaps you get to meet the bearded guys with that car... Terry, are Austinites as sick of hearing "Austin, waiddaminute - ZZ Top, right?", like I am of the Scorpions?

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (15:57) #7

Who are these guys you mention with the beards in that car with the black windows? Lost me somewhere...someone I should be aware of? Surely, not Terry...

~aschuth Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (16:01) #8

Well, uh, ZZ Top...

~aschuth Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (16:05) #9

Which are, like, a rock band...

~aschuth Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (16:06) #10

... 70ies and 80ies... Videos had high rotation on MTV, international sales... BIG!

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (16:15) #11

Ok...guess they do not do Beethoven, in that case...(I have actually heard of them!)

~aschuth Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (16:27) #12

Uh, they's so old, they probably went to school with Beethoven... Perhaps "did" him then, huh?

~mrchips Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (17:10) #13

They're about MY age, actually. Thanks, Alexander. In the late 1970s and early 80s, when I was unshorn and long bearded, I used to be mistaken for Billy Gibbons occasionally. They got their names from the two largest selling brands of rolling papers (Zig-Zags "ZZ") and (Tops). They make as much sound as any three-man band since the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Although they crank it up, I love their blues-based stuff, like "Jesus Just Left Chicago." Ironically, in the beginning, their drummer, Frank Beard, was the only unbearded band member. I know a girl, she lives on a hill She won't do it but her sister will She do the boogie, she do the "tube snake" boogie!

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (17:16) #14

Long hair, too, John? Does a picture exist that we might get you to post or email to me?! (I shall be most discrete...)

~mrchips Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (17:20) #15

I'll e-mail you.

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (18:02) #16

*smile* Thanks! *smile*

~riette Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (09:45) #17

HEY! What's going on here??? JOHN! If you ever had long hair, you'd better show yourself!

~terry Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (09:56) #18

Austin City Limits is having Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson (Monday), fresh from his CMA-lashing cover of George Jones "Choices" according to Michael Corcoran, local gosumnist. But the show will not be Parton f the 25th anniversary schedule. Titled "Austin City Limits Presents Alan Jackson Under the Influence" the program will be the first "ACL" special to be shown on commercial tv when TNN airs the concert in about 6 seeks. Dolly will be on in November, playing an all bluegrass set.

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (14:40) #19

OK!! Thanks for that.

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (14:49) #20

Of course, this is entirely up to John, but I made the photo small enough to post and sent him a copy...no excuse. He should put it on Screwed/169/ Have you checked there? He looks like a Maharishi of something-or-other!

~mrchips Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (16:41) #21

I did not receive the copy and am unable to post without a website.

~mrchips Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (16:55) #22

Thank you, Marcia. Here's the onetime Billy Gibbons/Randy Bachman lookalike.

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (16:57) #23

I sent you the dialog string. It is already on my space on the Spring's hard drive. All you have to do is copy and paste it into a box like I am writing this in, and hit the submit button. If the picture does not show up, it is my error and I will check it out.

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (16:58) #24

You beat me to it!!! Yup! That's our Maharishi John!

~terry Wed, Oct 9, 2002 (07:20) #25

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS MUSIC FESTIVAL @Zilker Park, Austin, TX September 28-29, 2002 It could be said that the Austin City Limits Music Festival was an idea whose time had finally come. For nearly 30 years, the pubcast TV show Austin City Limits has been showcasing a wide variety of musical artists, mostly of the American roots/country variety (with the diversity that implies), but in the past few years they've embraced everything from jazz to AfroCuban music to psychedelic rock. To celebrate this newfound eclecticism (not to mention replace Austin's little-missed fall music festival Aquafest, whose last major headliner was Peter Frampton), the ACL folks teamed up with Lance Armstrong's management company Capital Sports Entertainment to create the ACL Music Festival, two days of food, sun, crafts, sun, beer and, of course, music. And sun. Did I mention sun? Saturday 9/28: After handing over my ticket and passing through the KLRU-TV tent to say hello to friends, I headed to the American Originals Stage to see the Faithful Gospel Singers, not so much because I was in the mood for gospel, but because they were the only musicians performing at 11:30 in the morning. The FGS was a straightforward gospel quartet, with the added bonus that the singers were also the instrumentalists. With bass, drums and, surprisingly, synthesizers providing a backdrop for the band's four-part harmonies, the music was an even balance between traditional and contemporary. I just wasn't feeling in the Spirit, though, and despite the entertaining sight of a bunch of white people acting like they were receiving the Word, I left after a couple of songs. from http://www.highbias.com/reviews/20021006_live.html

~AlFor Wed, Oct 9, 2002 (20:26) #26

"I got 'em runnin' just as fast as they can 'Cause every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man!" - from Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top

~terry Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (07:49) #27

ZZ Top wasn't there, but they've been on Austin City Limits I believe.