I moved to Austin from Dallas in 1974. That was a great change in my early teenage years. I hated Dallas back then. (Like it now) Austin was so cool and laid back. Armadillo world headquarters was the only place a young teenager could hang out in the beer garden and get drunk when no one was watching. Everyone no matter who could fit in there. I went to school and was in class in Jr. high with a Threadgill daughter, a singer. She was so pretty and had long blonde hair. Austin women are the prettiest, and friendliest women you ever met. When we skipped school we would cruise the west hills of town and go to the lake. Freedom as a teenager. Austin, I done got old.
Found the Armadillo in 1976 when I was truckin as an owner-operator. I remember lots of nights sitting on the carpet getting lit up on smoke and beer. The music was great and so were the people. I would find a girl and after closing, we would get in my Freightliner and bobtail out to lake Travis with a cooler full of beer and party and skinny dip till dawn. Those were some of the best times ever. There was another bar I used to go to I believe it was called the Town Pump had a lot of fun there also. I never saw another place like the Armadillo and I know I never will again. It was a great time to be alive.
This was such a rockin' place. Good times , great music , smoking chicks and Ice cold beer. Damn it didn't get any better.. ..No seriously it never did get any better :)
I was there when The Arrmadillo World Open In The AUstin TeXaS remmeber a guy name Micheal took me in and I got to see zz top, Freddie king, Janet joplin and frank zappa. man those was the days. I wook in a Resturant call Kings fOOd Host across the street On barton Spring Road. Just got out of High School @ Austin High School I was part and Austin History. Thank you Arrmadillo World for some good times back in History I had some fun and smoke
Many memories from the Dillo loved Greezy Wheels when Pat P played with them one of the founders of the Wheels could ramble for a while bout the Musicians that we had the absolute PLEASURE TO MEET AND THE JAM SESSIONS...SMOKIN ! THANKS FOR THE GREAT POST...ol couple way down in TX 52yrs !
One of my brother's favorite albums.. Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen - LIVE from Deep In The Heart of Texas! Nov '73 The greatest version of "Diggy Liggy Lo" ever heard by human ears.
I went to Austin in 1974 to visit my cousin Phil, I was a senior in high school and on Easter vacation, Phil took me to The Armadillo World Headquarters to see Box Scaggs and I new that I was moving to Austin Texas. Cold Lone Star and great nachos, and the beer garden served a great lunch , it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer but you could see Freddy King for $2.00 , I saw Joe Ely in 1975 , just some great bands came through, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa , but Freddy King was my favorite, great venue for food and music
Loved the Dillo, thank God the Broken Spoke is still there, moved from Austin in 1976. Austin will always be my home, go back as much as I can, Hippy Hollw is now charging just to be in the parking lot, big homes overlooking the area where I used to be every weekend. Bergstrom AFB is no longer a military base. Wow Crockett High has trailers all around it. Love You Austin and Miss what you were.
OMG ! I remember Hippy Hollow ! I use to go there , and been to the armadillo world headquarters Austin was great in the 70's still a nice city but has changed and grown alot since then ,, Austin is still the best city in Texas the 70's was a good generation ,we where free and kind to one another, we enjoyed life ..
Austin is my hometown. I can no longer live there everyone i grew up with 3rd grade thru highschool have left. The Armadillo. Soap Creek. One Nite, Antones on 6th street. The best time to have been in Austin. This city will always will be in my heart. .P.S. im still in Texas
I am from Houston and I would spend my summers in Austin when I was a kid with my aunt in the 1970's. Those times were a magical experience! When I came back to Austin in 1991 to work (age 25) it had became a yuppie shithole!
Austin Ballet Theater performed there often. It was great. Cowboys and rockers coming to see ballet. Stanley Hall should be honored with a statue or something. The ABT was like a family with Stanley Hall being papa.
I was there in the late '70's. I was stationed at Ft Hood and one time we were flying around at north Ft Hood doing training shit when we landed and by "accident" found a real live armadillo so we took him for a ride in the Huey helicopter and after a cool ride courtesy of the ex-Viet Nam chopper piolets we put him back where we found him. My first "Bud" at Ft Hood was Eddie Taylor who knew a friend from high school in Amarillo named Howard who was a dealer in Austin. We would run down to Austin on weekends and party with Howard and hang at the Armadillo. I saw Willy for the 1st time at the Austin Opera House and got to smoke with him after the show because Howard knew him. Does anyone remember the "Orehouse" in Austin? Good times and mellow weed. God Bless the ARMADILLO!
My old man used to call it "The Texas Fillmore". He worked with the Dead back then and JGB. When I moved to Austin from Sausalito a long time ago he came down to meet some old friends. Northern California is his home but Austin is like a retreat. He was telling me there was a time Austin was almost like the Bay area in the late 60s - mid 70s. There's lots of important people from days gone by hidden around that town.
Boy it got hot in there. Was stationed at Ft Hood one summer, spent most of my weekends at the 'Dillo. Saw Cmdr Cody a bunch.Caught Bill Kirchen their guitar, years later playing in Minnesota. Told him I was at the Dillo and saw him alot. We laughed and talked a bunch. Many Dillo tails. They were in Texas so much I thought they were a local band.! He said No. Mostly from points East . Anyhow you could sweat off 5-10 lbs. a night in there!
It was hot in the summer and cold in the winter but the Lone Star was cold and the Nachos were the best in Texas, they fried a corn tortilla covered it with cheese and jalapenos then put it in the oven to melt the cheese, there were 3 to an order, for $1.00 , back then you could drink at 18 , I came from Kansas City, Missouri to Austin in 1974 to visit my cousin Phil, My girlfriend, Mother, Grandmother, and I drove to Dallas over Easter vacation to visit my Aunt Alice, my girlfriend and I left Mom and Grandma in Dallas and headed for Austin to see my cousin Phil, he took us to see The University of Texas, The Hole in the Wall , El Patio ,then we went to The Armadillo World Headquarters to see Boz Scaggs and I fell in love with Austin Texas, it was 1974 and as long as you didn't bother anyone you could do whatever you wanted to, It was a magical time to be in Austin in the 1960s and 1970s , as soon as school was over my girlfriend and I moved to Austin , we stayed until the mid-1980s then moved back to Kansas City, eventually I moved back to Austin and stayed for a few years but it had changed, it still had great music and food ( Casita Jorge's) but the hippie days were gone, Austin was and still is a great city with a funky vibe, if you're there check out South Congress, great little shops and restaurants, also juke joints Continental Club and C Boys, oh and try Matt's El Rancho for Mexican food, Austin is a food lovers paradise
loved the dillo back in 70's! Austin isn't the same any more. Hipsters have taken over.
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I moved to Austin from Dallas in 1974. That was a great change in my early teenage years. I hated Dallas back then. (Like it now) Austin was so cool and laid back. Armadillo world headquarters was the only place a young teenager could hang out in the beer garden and get drunk when no one was watching. Everyone no matter who could fit in there. I went to school and was in class in Jr. high with a Threadgill daughter, a singer. She was so pretty and had long blonde hair. Austin women are the prettiest, and friendliest women you ever met. When we skipped school we would cruise the west hills of town and go to the lake. Freedom as a teenager. Austin, I done got old.
Found the Armadillo in 1976 when I was truckin as an owner-operator. I remember lots of nights sitting on the carpet getting lit up on smoke and beer. The music was great and so were the people. I would find a girl and after closing, we would get in my Freightliner and bobtail out to lake Travis with a cooler full of beer and party and skinny dip till dawn. Those were some of the best times ever. There was another bar I used to go to I believe it was called the Town Pump had a lot of fun there also. I never saw another place like the Armadillo and I know I never will again. It was a great time to be alive.
Man, those were the good ole days my friend. I grew up in Austin. I moved there when I was 14, in 1978. Miss it but I went and got old.
This was such a rockin' place. Good times , great music , smoking chicks and Ice cold beer. Damn it didn't get any better.. ..No seriously it never did get any better :)
It really was
I was there when The Arrmadillo World Open In The AUstin TeXaS remmeber a guy name Micheal took me in and I got to see zz top, Freddie king, Janet joplin and frank zappa. man those was the days. I wook in a Resturant call Kings fOOd Host across the street On barton Spring Road. Just got out of High School @ Austin High School I was part and Austin History. Thank you Arrmadillo World for some good times back in History I had some fun and smoke
Many memories from the Dillo loved Greezy Wheels when Pat P played with them one of the founders of the Wheels could ramble for a while bout the Musicians that we had the absolute
PLEASURE TO MEET AND THE JAM SESSIONS...SMOKIN ! THANKS FOR THE GREAT POST...ol couple way down in TX 52yrs !
My fave band there was Blue Oyster Cult! Great mems!!!❤️
I sure loved it.
I went there a lot from 1973 to 1980.
I got to play the beer garden, and the "big stage".
It was a joy!
One of my brother's favorite albums.. Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen - LIVE from Deep In The Heart of Texas! Nov '73 The greatest version of "Diggy Liggy Lo" ever heard by human ears.
I went to Austin in 1974 to visit my cousin Phil, I was a senior in high school and on Easter vacation, Phil took me to The Armadillo World Headquarters to see Box Scaggs and I new that I was moving to Austin Texas. Cold Lone Star and great nachos, and the beer garden served a great lunch , it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer but you could see Freddy King for $2.00 , I saw Joe Ely in 1975 , just some great bands came through, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa , but Freddy King was my favorite, great venue for food and music
Loved the Dillo, thank God the Broken Spoke is still there, moved from Austin in 1976. Austin will always be my home, go back as much as I can, Hippy Hollw is now charging just to be in the parking lot, big homes overlooking the area where I used to be every weekend. Bergstrom AFB is no longer a military base. Wow Crockett High has trailers all around it. Love You Austin and Miss what you were.
OMG ! I remember Hippy Hollow ! I use to go there , and been to the armadillo world headquarters Austin was great in the 70's still a nice city but has changed and grown alot since then ,, Austin is still the best city in Texas the 70's was a good generation ,we where free and kind to one another, we enjoyed life ..
Austin is my hometown. I can no longer live there everyone i grew up with 3rd grade thru highschool have left. The Armadillo. Soap Creek. One Nite, Antones on 6th street. The best time to have been in Austin. This city will always will be in my heart. .P.S. im still in Texas
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I am from Houston and I would spend my summers in Austin when I was a kid with my aunt in the 1970's. Those times were a magical experience!
When I came back to Austin in 1991 to work (age 25) it had became a yuppie shithole!
Austin Ballet Theater performed there often. It was great. Cowboys and rockers coming to see ballet. Stanley Hall should be honored with a statue or something. The ABT was like a family with Stanley Hall being papa.
And TJ McFarland played the very last song that last night at the headquarters with the wheel....
I was there in the late '70's. I was stationed at Ft Hood and one time we were flying around at north Ft Hood doing training shit when we landed and by "accident" found a real live armadillo so we took him for a ride in the Huey helicopter and after a cool ride courtesy of the ex-Viet Nam chopper piolets we put him back where we found him. My first "Bud" at Ft Hood was Eddie Taylor who knew a friend from high school in Amarillo named Howard who was a dealer in Austin. We would run down to Austin on weekends and party with Howard and hang at the Armadillo. I saw Willy for the 1st time at the Austin Opera House and got to smoke with him after the show because Howard knew him. Does anyone remember the "Orehouse" in Austin? Good times and mellow weed. God Bless the ARMADILLO!
My old man used to call it "The Texas Fillmore". He worked with the Dead back then and JGB. When I moved to Austin from Sausalito a long time ago
he came down to meet some old friends. Northern California is his home but Austin is like a retreat. He was telling me there was a time Austin was almost like the Bay area in the late 60s - mid 70s. There's lots of important people from days gone by hidden around that town.
Armadillo had the beer and Kenny Threadgills had the CFS. Guy could go home happy after that.
Who wishes they were there??
Better then Woodstock.....and that's no bullshit
Boy it got hot in there. Was stationed at Ft Hood one summer, spent most of my weekends at the 'Dillo. Saw Cmdr Cody a bunch.Caught Bill Kirchen their guitar, years later playing in Minnesota. Told him I was at the Dillo and saw him alot. We laughed and talked a bunch. Many Dillo tails. They were in Texas so much I thought they were a local band.! He said No. Mostly from points East . Anyhow you could sweat off 5-10 lbs. a night in there!
It was hot in the summer and cold in the winter but the Lone Star was cold and the Nachos were the best in Texas, they fried a corn tortilla covered it with cheese and jalapenos then put it in the oven to melt the cheese, there were 3 to an order, for $1.00 , back then you could drink at 18 , I came from Kansas City, Missouri to Austin in 1974 to visit my cousin Phil, My girlfriend, Mother, Grandmother, and I drove to Dallas over Easter vacation to visit my Aunt Alice, my girlfriend and I left Mom and Grandma in Dallas and headed for Austin to see my cousin Phil, he took us to see The University of Texas, The Hole in the Wall , El Patio ,then we went to The Armadillo World Headquarters to see Boz Scaggs and I fell in love with Austin Texas, it was 1974 and as long as you didn't bother anyone you could do whatever you wanted to, It was a magical time to be in Austin in the 1960s and 1970s , as soon as school was over my girlfriend and I moved to Austin , we stayed until the mid-1980s then moved back to Kansas City, eventually I moved back to Austin and stayed for a few years but it had changed, it still had great music and food ( Casita Jorge's) but the hippie days were gone, Austin was and still is a great city with a funky vibe, if you're there check out South Congress, great little shops and restaurants, also juke joints Continental Club and C Boys, oh and try Matt's El Rancho for Mexican food, Austin is a food lovers paradise
Steve Vai sez the stage temperature was 120 degrees at his gig there. WTF!
Austin has changed beyond recognition! Sad. So much better in Sixtes and Seventies. Austin is no longer Austin!
Love it!
Great Video!!
U shoulda been around n them days...
My Dream is.Record music there. Also I want t shirts and post
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Amen!!
@catcan50 you should ask Scott Newton, the Austin based photographer that did a lot of shooting their
Oct 30 1975
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I can't believe I hitchhiked right by there 😐
Yea but the bathroom didn't smell too good. I went to see AC/DC there with Bon Scott in 1977