On 10/16/2025 at 6:12 PM, Horn_Spanker said:

Was looking up the date of the last show I saw at the Armadillo, and found this on Reddit:  Which of you assholes stole my photo?

 

I'm sure somebody copied it from Traces of Texas after I posted it on my social media feeds.

On 3/21/2026 at 8:27 PM, Hornius Emeritus said:

One of my readers sent this to me. Before there was ZZ Top there was Moving Sidewalks. Traces of Texas reader Lee Ann Lavender graciously sent in this OUTSTANDING photo of Billy F Gibbons and his band in 1967. Billy is standing on the right, looking down at his guitar. The Moving Sidewalks were playing at a church dance somewhere on Westheimer in Houston. Lee Ann's mom, Carol Lavender, was Billy's girlfriend at the time and that's her dancing on the far right. This is so cool and so historic I can hardly stand it.

My half-brother, Steve, was manager and occasional keyboardist for the Moving Sidewalks. I probably posted this well up-thread, but here's a picture of the two of them from 1966 (Billy on the right). He told me a story once of the MS opening for Hendrix in Austin and getting to meet Jimi backstage. I hit him with the dumbest question ever: "What was Jimi like?" His answer: "He was pretty cool."

Edited March 25Mar 25 by dcbc

4 hours ago, dcbc said:

My half-brother, Steve, was manager and occasional keyboardist for the Moving Sidewalks. I probably posted this well up-thread, but here's a picture of the two of them from 1966 (Billy on the right). He told me a story once of the MS opening for Hendricks in Austin and getting to meet Jimi backstage. I hit him with the dumbest question ever: "What was Jimi like?" His answer: "He was pretty cool."

Do you mind if I repost this on Traces of Texas?

4 hours ago, dcbc said:

My half-brother, Steve, was manager and occasional keyboardist for the Moving Sidewalks. I probably posted this well up-thread, but here's a picture of the two of them from 1966 (Billy on the right). He told me a story once of the MS opening for Hendricks in Austin and getting to meet Jimi backstage. I hit him with the dumbest question ever: "What was Jimi like?" His answer: "He was pretty cool."

Cool story and picture, but "Hendricks"??? C'mon man.

1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Do you mind if I repost this on Traces of Texas?

Not at all. I have more pictures somewhere. I don't own the rights to the photos though (in case that matters). Also, Steve is listed as producer of their only album. So maybe that was more of his role. I'm not sure to what extent my half-brother Richard was involved. Regardless, they parted ways just prior to ZZTop. Steve owned Rampart studios in Houston for years after that and produced albums for The Judys and KingsX among other projects. Richard, opened the Catacombs club on S. Post Oak in Houston in the late 60s where the Jeff Beck Group, Mothers of Invention, Grateful Dead, and Jethro Tull played their first Houston gigs.

Here's one of the pictures I found. I think (but do not know for sure) that this was taken in the pool house at my dad's old house in Tanglewood.

Edited March 25Mar 25 by dcbc

1 hour ago, 83Horn said:

Cool story and picture, but "Hendricks"??? C'mon man.

Whoops. Gotta blame autocorrect, true or not.

1 hour ago, dcbc said:

Not at all. I have more pictures somewhere. I don't own the rights to the photos though (in case that matters). Also, Steve is listed as producer of their only album. So maybe that was more of his role. I'm not sure to what extent my half-brother Richard was involved. Regardless, they parted ways just prior to ZZTop. Steve owned Rampart studios in Houston for years after that and produced albums for The Judys and KingsX among other projects. Richard, opened the Catacombs club on S. Post Oak in Houston in the late 60s where the Jeff Beck Group, Mothers of Invention, Grateful Dead, and Jethro Tull played their first Houston gigs.

Here's one of the pictures I found. I think (but do not know for sure) that this was taken in the pool house at my dad's old house in Tanglewood.

Any chance you have a larger version of that second photo? I can enlarge it in photoshop, but it loses clarity and starts getting pixelated.

3 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Any chance you have a larger version of that second photo? I can enlarge it in photoshop, but it loses clarity and starts getting pixelated.

Here's what it looks like when I enlarge it in Photoshop to my usual size.

8 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Any chance you have a larger version of that second photo? I can enlarge it in photoshop, but it loses clarity and starts getting pixelated.

I'll have to look. Doubtful, but I'll see.

Also, I think that Hendrix show was in Ft. Worth, not Austin. This all was before I was born.

Edited March 25Mar 25 by dcbc

One of my favorites

4 hours ago, DougO said:

So that's Zach Braff on the left with the Les Paul. Who are the others? And where is Donald Faison?

19 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

So that's Zach Braff on the left with the Les Paul. Who are the others? And where is Donald Faison?

The Stray Cats

looks like Funkhauser.

On 6/11/2026 at 8:41 PM, brakeman said:

Me on my morning walk on my way by that one neighbor's doorbell camera.

3 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

×, 2, 3, ×

5 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

First African American to own a private jet apparently. Fantastic picture!

22 minutes ago, dcbc said:

First African American to own a private jet apparently. Fantastic picture!

He was a bad motherfucker. I went to a lot of his shows.

13 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

He was a bad motherfucker. I went to a lot of his shows.

He was the baddest motherfucker. Maceo was a close second. I saw him quite a few times.

"Who's that sunofabitch next to Switzer?" is sort of how I feel about that photo. Cher is not in the same universe at the national treasure on the left.

She probably was when that picture was taken. She was a pretty big deal back in the day.

NSIAP.

6 hours ago, South Austin said:

NSIAP.

"Say, man, you got a joint?"

23 minutes ago, dcbc said:

"Say, man, you got a joint?"

Darrell: "No, man, I smoked my last one at halftime."

Edited August 31Aug 31 by South Austin

On 4/20/2026 at 8:22 AM, Don Johnson said:

Turn JB up!

On 8/31/2026 at 7:25 AM, South Austin said:

NSIAP.

This one is hanging in my living room.

10 hours ago, Stringer said:

This one is hanging in my living room.

This one is in mine.

She made costumes for rock stars according to slash’s book. Don’t recall her being Bowies gf.

On 9/1/2026 at 6:16 PM, dcbc said:

This one is in mine.

where can I buy this?

On 9/20/2026 at 8:54 PM, tbone_ said:

She made costumes for rock stars according to slash’s book. Don’t recall her being Bowies gf.

Slash says yes

Aare we saying Bowie was his dad?

1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

Aare we saying Bowie was his dad?

Nope.

U2 playing their first gig, a talent show at Dublin's Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976. They covered Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way". Apparently Bono came out of the womb a fully-formed twatwaffle.

Where’s a meteor when you need one?

more like a "no talent" show, amirite?

On 9/26/2026 at 9:30 AM, jimmyjazz said:

U2 playing their first gig, a talent show at Dublin's Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976. They covered Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way". Apparently Bono came out of the womb a fully-formed twatwaffle.

On 9/26/2026 at 9:30 AM, jimmyjazz said:

U2 playing their first gig, a talent show at Dublin's Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976. They covered Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way". Apparently Bono came out of the womb a fully-formed twatwaffle.

This is kinda like thescene in Saving Private Ryan where Corporal Upham had the chance to prevent something horrible but he didn't have the guts to do it. Every student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School quietly shares the burden of that guilt