I was skimming through Austin 360 today and came across an article highlighting this cool video that just got posted to Vimeo about Austin's music scene in 1985, when there were only 713 people living in the city and "Tito" was still the chubby brother from the Jackson 5 and not some vodka czar (pun intended)!
I.R.S. records produced this show, which I don't recall at all despite being 14 in 1985 and watching MTV with a fair amount of regularity. But check out some of the names highlighted (per the 360 article):
"The hourlong show captured around a dozen acts who were all the rage in the local clubs at the time. There's footage of the True Believers, Zeitgeist (later known as the Reivers), Timbuk3, Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns, Doctors' Mob, Glass Eye, Tail Gators, Poison 13, Dharma Bums, Wild Seeds, Toshio Hirano, Dino Lee's White Trash Revue — and, making his national TV debut, Daniel Johnston."
The Cutting Edge - July 1985, Austin Tx from ASPHALT SERENADE on Vimeo.
Speaking of Daniel Johnston, apparently a new mural is going up featuring a bunch of the late "outsider music" icon's doodles. From the early pictures, it looks pretty interesting to me and definitely captures the spirit of DJ's art. Go check it out!
