Category: Retroglitteratiness

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    Sir Douglas Quintet – Austin City Limits Video

    Wanted to share this video of the late great Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet. Doug, Augie Myers and Johnny Perez from the original group were joined by Austin (and Semitough) favorite Alvin Crow and Speedy Sparks for this ACL performance in 1981. That’s my man Alvin in the red & white cutoff western shirt. This was back in…

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    Scooby Doo Meets Hunter S. Thompson

    Out surfing the Googletubes, you know visiting the usual suspects, when I stumble across this bit of humor over at Iowahawk’s tubespace. Seems the late great shoot-my-cold-dead-ashes-out-of-a-cannon prototype gonzo journalist did some work for Hanna-Barbera: We were ten minutes south of San Clemente when the putrid green daisy walls of the van started closing in. I recall the fat four-eyed…