After causing an unparalleled buzz among fans of rare psychedelia with the posthumous release of their 1970 recordings by the Rockadelic label, the world has...
At long last, here we are on the threshold of deciding who is the greatest psych guitarist - according to the lizards of the Pooterland Lounge, at any rate. ...
I disagree....Stacy Suntherland was the greatest psych guitarist.Galen Niles(who is alive)is the best still walking on earth psych guitarist! Chris ... ...
There's this Martian gibberish at the beginning of the song. I just slowed it down, here's Sonny's subliminal message: "Disc jockey, please play this record....
In the mid-60`s I lived in McAllen, Tx. We went to dances evey friday night at the Moose Lodge or the bowling alley. One of the local groups I liked most was...
Always enjoy hearing eyewitness accounts of the local scenes, Celia. For some reason, McAllen isn't mentioned much even though there appears to have been quite...
The Headstones were one of the great Texas garage bands for sure, with 3 killer tracks under their belt... the whole McAllen scene has always interested me,...
Reemember the good old days when there were NO ads inside the messages themselves? Craig is pretty web-savvy, maybe we can convince him to set up his own site ...
The bowling alley in McAllen was called the Grapefruit Bowl. It was a huge place that had bowling lanes, a resturant area and a skating rink. It was the...
... no it's not too long, too short, feel free. ... I don't know about reputable anything anymore, but you can get the Headstones CD (has all 4 sides of their ...
in re: banner ads yes, i see it too (the long banner ads appear over the text, obscuring it). i'd like to believe it's a mistake. only thing i've seen to cure...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheTexas60sMusicRefuge/files/Posters/Tho seWereTheDays.jpg in the files/posters section there is a hand-drawn sketch of the Love...
This is where digital cameras beat scanners... thanks Craig; I take it there is no date and no reference to any particular concert in the poster. If so, it can...
Anyone who saw any of Jack Starrs bands in the 60's? I only saw him when Billy&Miriam dug him up in the early 90's and that was wild,so stuff from his prime...
Here's the latest from Freddie. note it doesn't appear John Ike is on the upcoming gigs, Rex (at Old Quarter) has not gotten the word. I will update if i find...
Whoa! Tell us more, Celia...we're loving this information! BOOING Tom Jones off the stage at the height of his popularity...great stuff! Yeah, I heard that the...
Ah, the late, the great, Mister Jack Starr. I talked to him via the tele-phone a few times and exchanged letters with him; with little prodding from me, he...
According to "Bull of the Woods" producer Jim Duff, Roky insisted on being alone in the studio for the vocal track for "Livin' On." Tommy was equally insistent...
... TheTexas60sMusicRefuge@yahoogroups.com, "donjulioblanco2002" wrote: re : "According to "Bull of the Woods" producer Jim Duff, Roky insisted on being alone...
There may have been more than 1 fist fight, or else Lelan was present for "Livin' On", which is possible if it was at the very early stages of working on it...
... Not Fair,I bought booze for Starr an entire evening at Maxwell's and all I got was a great show and a hug! I guess Jack knew who the Smithsonian of Texas...
Hey Patrick! Are you calling Tommy a mere college drop-out?! Everybody who ever played in a band (99 % of this group probably),know that fisticuffs usually...
I think Jim's recollection proves there were several fistfights. Lelan definitely was long gone by this time. We have the actual date this occured, thanks to...
We moved away from McAllen in 1968, so I don`t know what happened there after that, but "The One Way Streets" sounds familiar. What year were they playing...
Celia, The One Way Streets were playing from '66 onward. They had three singles out. They were based in Pharr and played the Moose Lodge in McAllen quite a few...
