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Armadillo World Headquarters

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 * Asleep at the Wheel
 * Austin Ballet Theatre
 * (dummy test)

Some acts that played at the Armadillo

 * Jay Boy Adams
 * Mose Allison
 * April Wine
 * Joan Armatrading
 * Asleep at the Wheel
 * Balcones Fault
 * Long John Baldry
 * Dickey Betts
 * Elvin Bishop
 * Blackfoot
 * Blue Öyster Cult
 * Tommy Bolin
 * The Boomtown Rats
 * Brewer & Shipley
 * David Bromberg
 * Brownsville Station
 * Bubble Puppy
 * Roy Buchanan
 * Budgie
 * Joe King Carrasco y El Molino, 1976
 * Charlie Daniels Band
 * The Clash
 * Jimmy Cliff
 * David Allan Coe
 * Ry Cooder
 * Alice Cooper
 * Elvis Costello
 * James Cotton
 * Country Joe McDonald
 * Jack DeJohnette Special Edition
 * Denim
 * Rick Derringer
 * Devo
 * Dire Straits
 * The Dixie Dregs
 * The Electromagnets
 * John Fahey
 * José Feliciano
 * Michael Franks
 * Gentle Giant
 * Dexter Gordon
 * Jon Emery
 * John Klemmer
 * Ramblin' Jack Elliott
 * Roky Erickson
 * The Fabulous Thunderbirds
 * Steven Fromholz
 * The J. Geils Band
 * The Pretenders
 * Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
 * Sonny Fortune
 * Flying Burrito Brothers
 * Freddy Fender
 * Gasoline
 * Genesis
 * Golden Earring
 * Greezy Wheels
 * Arlo Guthrie
 * Mahavishnu Orchestra
 * Emmylou Harris
 * John Hartford
 * It's a Beautiful Day
 * Jerry Garcia Band
 * Levon Helm
 * Bugs Henderson
 * Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks
 * The Jam
 * Eric Johnson
 * Janis Joplin
 * Journey
 * Leo Kottke
 * Kraftwerk
 * Peter Lang
 * Jerry Lee Lewis
 * Mance Lipscomb
 * Little Feat
 * Kenny Loggins
 * The Lost Gonzo Band
 * Mahogany Rush
 * Chuck Mangione
 * Man Mountain and the Green Slime Boys
 * The Marshall Tucker Band
 * Moon Martin
 * Dave Mason
 * Delbert McClinton
 * Roger McGuinn
 * Pat Metheny
 * Augie Meyers
 * Charles Mingus
 * Van Morrison
 * Moxy
 * Maria Muldaur
 * Martin Mull
 * The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
 * Ted Nugent
 * Phil Ochs
 * Old and New Dreams
 * Robert Palmer
 * Paul Ray and the Cobras
 * Roxy Music
 * Turk Pipkin
 * Jean-Luc Ponty
 * Iggy Pop
 * John Prine
 * Flora Purim
 * The Ramones
 * Leon Redbone
 * Renaissance
 * Rockpile
 * Sonny Rollins
 * Linda Ronstadt
 * The Runaways
 * Todd Rundgren
 * Rush
 * Leon Russell
 * Doug Sahm
 * Savoy Brown
 * Boz Scaggs
 * Bob Seger
 * The Sir Douglas Quintet
 * The Skunks
 * Patti Smith
 * Jimmie Spheeris
 * Spirit
 * St. Elmo's Fire (band)
 * B.W. Stevenson
 * Skyhooks
 * Steeleye Span
 * Steely Dan
 * Spyro Gyra
 * Squeeze
 * Taj Mahal
 * The Take
 * Talking Heads
 * Chip Taylor
 * Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
 * Thin Lizzy
 * George Thorogood
 * Kenneth Threadgill
 * Too Smooth
 * Toots & the Maytals
 * Pat Travers
 * TT Troll
 * Uranium Savages
 * Loudon Wainwright III
 * Doc and Merle Watson
 * Weather Report
 * Bob Weir
 * Rusty Wier
 * Johnny Winter
 * The Paul Winter Consort
 * The Wommack Bros. Band
 * Phil Woods
 * XTC
 * ZZ Top

Notable people
Vermont-born Burton Wilson (né Burton Esty Wilson; 1919–2014) – no relation to Eddie Wilson – was the de facto house photographer for the Vulcan Gas Company and Armadillo World Headquarters. Eddie Wilson one told him, "Just tell anybody who asks that you own the place. That way, you'll never need a backstage pass."

Video that let to public access

 * link


 * document: document_8C8F33D7-D308-21E8-3D87412C73B8288F.pdf


 * Austin City Clerk, Council-Approved Records,


 * City Council Meeting Transcripts, August 22, 2013
 * Title: ATXN2
 * Channel: 6 ‐ ATXN
 * Recorded On: 8/28/2013 6:00:00 AM
 * Original Air Date: 8/28/2013
 * Transcript Generated by SnapStream Enterprise TV Server


 * Proclamation by the City of Austin: "Austin's Best Radio Station," .... "Now therefore, I, Lee Leffingwell, Mayor of the City of Austin, Texas, do here by proclaim August 23rd, 2013, as KAZI's 31st anniversary"


 * Cole: It gives me great pleasure to present a proclamation to the city of Austin's best radio station, and they are the best radio station not only because of the music, but because of their commitment to community dialogue on the very tough issues. The proclamation reads, be it known that whereas KAZI 88.7 is the realization of a dream of the late Dr. John Warfield (né John Lewis Warfield; 1938–2007), a University of Texas Professor of African-American studies who wanted to create a noncommercial radio station to serve the African-American community in Austin and whereas with the help of his wife, Jan (née Jeanette Aycox; 1941–2015), several board members and a host of volunteers and supporters Dr. Warfield launched KAZI from a smallest on Manor Road in 1982.

Invocation

 * Rev. Edward Garcia, pastor of the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, Austin
 * Council members


 * Mayor Lee Leffingwell
 * Sheryl Cole, Mayor Pro Tem
 * Chris Riley, Place 1
 * Mike Martinez, Place 2
 * Kathryne Beth Tovo, Place 3
 * Laura Morrison, Place 4
 * William Spelman, Place 5



The El Molino Band

 * "In 1979, Joe King Carrasco traded El Molino for the younger, hipper Crowns" ref
 * The El Molino was an Austin-based band founded around 1972.


 * The El Molino band, in 1976, included Ike Ritter (né Frank Joseph Richard Ritter; 1946–1995) (guitar), David Mercer (né Frank David Alin Mercer; born 1951; Bill Mercer's son) (Farfisa organ), "Rocky" Morales (né Eracleo Mario Morales; 1940–2006) (tenor sax), Charlie McBurney (né Charles C. McBurney, Jr.; 1945–2003) (trumpet), Speedy Sparks (né Miller Vidor Sparks, Jr.; born 1945) (bass), Arturo "Sauce" Gonzales (né Tomás Arturo González; born 1943) (keyboards), and duelling drummers, Ernie "Murphey" Durawa (né Ernest Saldana Durawa; born 1942) and Richard "eh eh" Elizondo (deceased) – nicknamed "El Pinguino" – who, while in Junior High in San Antonio, played with Doug Sahm. In 1979, Joe King Carrasco swapped El Molino for the Crowns.


 * Others


 * Frank "Jalapeno" Rodarte (né Frank Fuentes Rodarte; born 1942) (tenor sax)

Joe King Carasco began is performing career around 1979 with El Molino, an Austin-based band founded around 1972. The El Molino band of 1979 was composed of Joe King Carasco (ne Joseph Charles Teutsch; born 1953) Kris Cummings (née Kristine Anne Cummings; born 1951) (Farfisa organ), Speedy Sparks (bass), and Bill Bentley (né William Keenan Bentley; born 1950) (drums).

Tex-Mex polka, San Antonio Mexican lounge band sound


 * Mike Navarro (né Miguel Navarro) (drums)


 * Sparks and Bentley had formerly played with The Bizzaros of Austin.


 * Richard tired easily, while Bentley was more into the Bizarros. Speedy didn't like the direction Joe was heading and wanted to play more rhythm and blues. He didn't show after a break one night at Hole in the Wall, which is where Brad Kizer (bass) stepped in. Mike Navarro tells the story of Joe looking for a Mexican drummer, which is how Joe found him.


 * Bill Bentley spent the Seventies in Austin drumming, writing, watching, and listening. He has worked as a publicist at Warner Bros. Records in California since 1986.



Electromagnets
The Electromagnets flourished from 1973 to 1977. They were composed of:
 * Eric Johnson (né David Eric Johnson; born 1954 in Austin) (guitar),
 * Stephen Barber (electric piano), a music composition student at Texas State University
 * Kyle Brock (né Kyle Glen Brock; born 1951 (bass), and
 * Bill "Thunderball" Maddox (né William Leslie Maddox; 1953–2010) (drums).


 * Members of the group had been influenced by saxophonist Tomás Ramírez, who, at the time as studying Jazz at the University of Texas at Austin.


 * When the Electromagnets disbanded in 1977, Maddox began playing with the Eric Johnson Group.

Auction
At an auction in 2016,

Lot number 85, a neon Shiner Texas Special Beer sign over the outline of Texas that drew a $3,500 winning bid, was so unique that Wilson described how it came into his possession: he took it from an abandoned sign shop and ran.

Wilson said, “The only thing I’ve ever stolen in my life is right there.”



Zone protest

 * zoning

Armory
Work started early October 6, 1947, to erect Naval armory, for the Naval Reserve, located on Barton Springs Road near Disch Field. The cost was $147,537 – equivalent to about $ in. In January 1948, Commanding Officer W.M. Wilcox announced that the Naval Armory being erected was renamed "Naval Reserve Training Center." Commander Wilcox said that the name change was national, for all Naval Armories. A $75,000 – equivalent to about $ in – annex, adjacent to the Naval Reserve Armory, commenced the third week of June 1948 to accommodate training for a newly added Marine Corps Reserve local unit, Company A, 15th Infantry Battalion. One of the addresses provided was 501$1/2$ Barton Springs Road.


 * "Marine Corps Reserve" "15th Infantry Battalion, Organized Marine Reserve"


 * Company A, Austin (coach Spot Collins (1922–1996) was in Company A) (mobilized July 1950 after the outbreak of the Korean War.
 * Company B,
 * Company C, Little Rock, Arkansas (mobilized summer 1950)
 * Company D, Galveston
 * 15th Infantry Battalion, Oahu, Hawaii
 * 15th Infantry Battalion: Santa Monica, California












 * Marine Corps History Department. A Brief History of the 15th Infantry Battalion. Quantico, Virginia.

Spot Collins
Collins, while serving as head football coach at Southwestern University in Georgetown, was a member of the Marine Corps Reserve unit, Company A (a rifle company), 15th Infantry Battalion, which, as of 1948, trained at a newly erected building in Austin that was an annex adjacent to the Navy Reserve Armory building that, from 1970 to 1980, housed the Armadillo World Headquarters. Captain Kenneth D. Seibert was local commander of rifle company. Company A was mobilized July 27, 1950. The company was composed of about 160 men, half of whom had served in World War II. One of Southwestern's assistant coaches, William Orville Pottenger (1921–1978), was also in Company A.





In 1968, while serving as Director of Athletics for the Springfield Public School system, Col. Pottenger relieved Col. Lang Rogers (né Harrison Lang Rogers; 1919–2002) of Joplin as Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps Volunteer Training Unit 9-15. Col. Rogers was also editor and publisher of The Joplin Globe and News Herald.



Other athletes in Company A

 * Lieutenant John Hargis (1920–1986), basketball star of the University of Texas at Austin

The Skating Palace

 * The Skating Palace, opened October 1946, at 525 Barton Springs Road.
 * Earl Evans, manager; Peery William Curry (1902–1987), a businessman and pharmacist, and Charles Carroll Hawkins (1911–1984), co-owners