General Music Chat

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WOW WOW WOW! Dude That's Awsome...Thanks!

I used to live just a blocks from the Galleria... on Fountain View (At the Fountain View Apts On the corner of San Felipe. There was a Tall building there (The Tanglewood Branch bank) and I watched the Oaks towers (Twins) go up near the Galleria... That was back in the 80s. During the Oil Crisis, they couldn't keep the floors lit up...

One of the key marks about Houston was its whacky zoning laws... You could have a house and live right under a tall building Ha ha! I remember
Westheimer alwaus had commercial business scattered between clusters of homes.

What a city!

dog, the city council is constantly arguing over the buffer zone. I read an article earlier this week! should it be 30' or 40'. Lets say you have a house, well a developer can buy the lot next to you and build a 40 story building on it if they want! Of coarse they have to get permission from city council and a variance (Grease their palms) and they'll let you LOL!

Oh and folks the state comptroller here in Texas has stated that OUR state budget is going to have a surplus this year. They even declared the recession in Texas is over! Thats what lack of government regulation will do for ya!
For all you out of work folks come on down to Texas there's, jobs waiting on you! Some of them are even high paying! I'm serious! You want a job we got'em

dog, the city council is constantly arguing over the buffer zone. I read an article earlier this week! should it be 30' or 40'. Lets say you have a house, well a developer can buy the lot next to you and build a 40 story building on it if they want! Of coarse they have to get permission from city council and a variance (Grease their palms) and they'll let you LOL!

Oh and folks the state comptroller here in Texas has stated that OUR state budget is going to have a surplus this year. They even declared the recession in Texas is over! Thats what lack of government regulation will do for ya!
For all you out of work folks come on down to Texas there's, jobs waiting on you! Some of them are even high paying! I'm serious! You want a job we got'em

Yep Houston definitely has got it goin on... Always been like that. Even during the recession periods, Houston always had some work some where...

Dog, the worst I have ever seen it here was the oil bust of the early 80's. Do you remember the Mayor back when you were here was Katherine J Whitmire? She had an awesome business sense and IMO really did more for this city than anyone in my 53 years. She diversefied our economy! Prior to the oilbust we were a one business economy. She pushed the medical center, the space industry, chemical processing industry. She was the first female mayor, city comptroller (before she was mayor) and the most under rated politician in my lifetime!

Dog, the worst I have ever seen it here was the oil bust of the early 80's. Do you remember the Mayor back when you were here was Katherine J Whitmire? She had an awesome business sense and IMO really did more for this city than anyone in my 53 years. She diversefied our economy! Prior to the oilbust we were a one business economy. She pushed the medical center, the space industry, chemical processing industry. She was the first female mayor, city comptroller (before she was mayor) and the most under rated politician in my lifetime!

As a matter of fact I do remember her... I also remember they had a police chief then, whose force was dubbed trigger happy... (You might recall the story of the city police who surrounded a crazy guy (wielding a machete, I think) they were like 5:1 and they shot his poor ass to death...The outrage was high over that incident... I also remember that same year they announced Free agents with Baseball... (Iknew sports was doomed thereafter)

I was there when Bum Philips moved over to the saints and they used to call the Oilers the "Houston Earlers" cause they relied on Earl Cambell for every play in a game...

Dog You are so COOL! I was a HUGE Love Ya Blue fan! Did you see Wade Philips (Bum's Son) took a leave of absence for surgery?

Yeah after all we are a gun loving Society down here! Back then Houston had the "Good Ole Boy" syndrome when the police were involved. After K J W became Mayor and the loss of tax dollars due to the oil bust those were some hard and depressing times. Both My sisters and their families moved to California for the lack of jobs! Thank God for Katherine J Whitmire. IMO the stars aligned. I like to think that we learned from those times. In reality we had AMAZING leadership! I was raised by woman, my cousin was the first female member of HFD. It has alway's p!ssed me off that GREAT woman in this city got no recognician

Dog, I have an Oilers story! We were playing at a place called Tbone Toms in Kemah! While setting up our gear this Land Yacht pulls into the parking lot. Tbones has a built in crowd and is a cool gig. It has a back yard, very picnic-ish and the stage is up high. I happened to look up and see the car pull in. Two HUGE men got out. I am talking 800 lb's of man got out of that car. So much so that the shocks sprung back up as a rocket does during lift off. It was Larry Adams and John Schumacher! (Houston Oilers) they came over set at our table and partied with us. One thing I remember vividly is these guys were drinking their beer from a pitcher and their hands were so HUGE that it really looked like a beer mug in their hands! they were Very COOL guys and this is one of my FONDEST MUSICAL MEMORIES!

Dog, I have an Oilers story! We were playing at a place called Tbone Toms in Kemah! While setting up our gear this Land Yacht pulls into the parking lot. Tbones has a built in crowd and is a cool gig. It has a back yard, very picnic-ish and the stage is up high. I happened to look up and see the car pull in. Two HUGE men got out. I am talking 800 lb's of man got out of that car. So much so that the shocks sprung back up as a rocket does during lift off. It was Larry Adams and John Schumacher! (Houston Oilers) they came over set at our table and partied with us. One thing I remember vividly is these guys were drinking their beer from a pitcher and their hands were so HUGE that it really looked like a beer mug in their hands! they were Very COOL guys and this is one of my FONDEST MUSICAL MEMORIES!

That's pretty awesome, J. I believe you about the hands... I really think Athletes like that are a separate branch of human species LOL! Alas they do what they do best, and they came to see yo guys doing what you do best.. Always makes for great camaraderie amongst the titans

Beautiful man! Next!

When I lived in Houston on Irvington
off Tidwell, I had a bumper sticker
that read:
Go Oilers and take the Astros with you

How long ago was that LD?

It's a blur but I'd say 1990ish. That year on
4th of July Foghat and Steppenwolf played
downtown at a free concert. Oh yeah the
Rockets won the championship that year,
we were downtown for the parade and they were
throwing all that shredded paper from the tops
of the buildings. I was a salesmen and worked the
west side of Houston, got me a key map and away
I went.

That would have been 1994 that's the first year the rockets won the championship Fi Slamma Jamma!
That area Irvington and Tidwell is a freaking getto now. Parts of Houston have really thrived and other parts have spiraled downhill and you don't want to step foot into them. Thanks to Crack some area's are really bad and that's one of them!
Those free concerts back then were called "Party On The Plaza" Houston doesn't have those. Now days there is "Rock The Dock" on the Kemah Plaza Stage. Its not so much the big famous bands mostly regional touring and local bands.

That would have been 1994 that's the first year the rockets won the championship Fi Slamma Jamma!
That area Irvington and Tidwell is a freaking getto now. Parts of Houston have really thrived and other parts have spiraled downhill and you don't want to step foot into them. Thanks to Crack some area's are really bad and that's one of them!
Those free concerts back then were called "Party On The Plaza" Houston doesn't have those. Now days there is "Rock The Dock" on the Kemah Plaza Stage. Its not so much the big famous bands mostly regional touring and local bands.

Jeff,

At one point , I lived off of Westcott and Memorial. The apts were 'ok'. But the neighborhood was close to the to the 4th Ward. At least once a week , I heard gunshots in the distance... and on more than one occasion there were tenents that always fighting.

Hey, Look up a guy named Earnest Potts . He's a Sax player in Houston (Or used to be) and we were next door neighbors at that place. At one point he took me to Galvestion and let me run his sound board at a gig.; (Which I totally boned... but he was really cool about it...very patient guy I might add.. )