LAST DANCE AT THE DILLO PART 1

DECEMBER 31, 1980 THE FINAL NIGHT FOR THE ARMADILLO WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS...FEATURING COMMANDER CODY, BILL KIRCHEN, JERRY JEFF WALKER, KENNETH THREADGILL, ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AND MORE!!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ARMADILLO
• WORLD
• HEADQUARTERS
• COMMANDER
• CODY
• AWHQ
• CCLPA
• JERRY
• JEFF
• WALKER
• BILL
• KIRCHEN
• TONY
• JOHNSON
• AUSTIN
• DELONE

[waluttrell]

I actually have the last ticket to the last dance at the dillo. I stood in line for a couple of hours that cloady day and when I got to the window the clerk said I hope you only need one ticket (which I did) and they said "you are getting the last ticket (#1100) and closed the window with many people still in line. I also have the ticket signed by Commander Cody and he wrote "keep on rockin' - Commander Cody" on the back...I've kept it all these years! Bill L.

[jeop1930]

when i was 12yrs old my brother and went to see.moxy and ac dc what a show those were the day that was it i hooked on rock and roll/long live rock and roll.

[rw1sgusa]

I WAS there in 1977 asleep at the wheel willie the amazing R ACES FOR 5.00 BUCKS YOU COULD BUY WHISKEY BY THE BOTTLE IT made quite an impression on a 18 year old kid from West Virginia, great music even greater people I SWEAR I DIDNT SEE 1 UGLY GIRL IN Austin what a party at the DILLO

[sugardevil49]

in the late 70's i was working at a VW dealership next door to the original Whole Foods Market on south Lamar. the beer garden at the Dillo was one of our favrorit lunch spots fer a few of us mechanix . got ship-wrecked there many a time and was unfit to go back to work. end of an era when that place went away. very sad, symbolic end of a unique culture. Austin was the center of the counter culture universe for a few years, and the Armadillo was its Mecca. Hail, hail !

[sugardevil49]

Damn, I miss that place ! I was living in Austin in the early years after the Dillo first kicked off. Jimmie Vaughan had just moved to town from Oak Cliff and was my next-door-neighbor on South Lamar. we got to be great friends. he was playing in a little ol' called Storm at the time, along with a few other dudes that would later become legends too, Storm was one of the regular bands at the Dillo, along with Freddie King, Shiva's Head Band, Freda and the Firedogs (a young Marcia Ball and manymo

[bobo420TX]

One of the greatest concert venues in history. Was at Ft Hood 74-75 used to drive the 70 miles each way to catch a show at the least every weekend sometime more often. Moved to Austin after the Army, was at this show it was exciting but very sad that "our" place was being torn down, what a waste. The Dillo is one of the main places that justified the saying keeping Austin weird.

ONWARD THRU THE FOG !!

[bobo420TX]

One of the greatest concert venues in history. Was at Ft Hood 74-75 used to drive the 70 miles each way to catch a show at the least every weekend sometime more often. Moved to Austin after the Army, was at this show it was exciting but very sad that "our" place was being torn down, what a waste. The Dillo is one of the main places that justified the saying keeping Austin weird.

ONWARD THRU THE FOG !!

[bobo420TX]

One of the greatest concert venues in history. Was at Ft Hood 74-75 used to drive the 70 miles each way to catch a show at the least every weekend sometime more often. Moved to Austin after the Army, was at this show it was exciting but very sad that "our" place was being torn down, what a waste. The Dillo is one of the main places that justified the saying keeping Austin weird.

ONWARD THRU THE FOG !!

[bobo420TX]

One of the greatest concert halls in history, spent many a night drinking beer and smoking doobies. I was at this show it was fun but at the same time it was very sad to see this institution closed. Went to TX in the Army in 74 and used to go to the dillo every weekend, sometimes weeknights (it was 70 miles each way) ended up moving to Austin after the Army. ONWARD THRU THE FOG !

[bobo420TX]

One of the greatest concert halls in history, spent many a night drinking beer and smoking doobies. I was at this show it was fun but at the same time it was very sad to see this institution closed. Went to TX in the Army in 74 and used to go to the dillo every weekend, sometimes weeknights (it was 70 miles each way) ended up moving to Austin after the Army. ONWARD THRU THE FOG !