50 years since an infamous ZZ Top concert rocked the Texas Longhorns' stadium | The Backstory

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Some say the music was unforgettable - but the Texas heat, lack of water and people jammed together like sardines made it unforgettable, too.
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@patriot5526 Месяц назад

A ZZ Top concert can never be a bad thing!

@stoveguy2133 27 дней назад

Tix was $8 in 1977.

@Hibiscuscalyxes Месяц назад

And yet no rioting, no fighting ,nothing like you would have today.

@arthurbrumagem3844 29 дней назад

And no shootings

@tomcarl8021 28 дней назад

Plenty of violence at rock concerts back then. Don't be silly.

@Hibiscuscalyxes 26 дней назад

@tomcarl8021 not really, I'm going on my 70s, went to hundreds of stadium size shows in the 60s and 70s and 80s even, never saw anything crazy once. Scarcly a fight. In the 80s, started going off rails, downhill since. Wouldn't go to any big crowd show today, no way out if problems. Peace.

@tomcarl8021 26 дней назад

@@Hibiscuscalyxes OK, Pongo. But where, exactly, did you see those shows?

@andyhayman3077 25 дней назад

@@HibiscuscalyxesAltamont

@bradtaylor4765 Месяц назад

Just a short time before this, ZZ Top played in front of a few hundred at Abilene High. My wife was there.

@calzabbath 26 дней назад

With whom 😂

@bradtaylor4765 25 дней назад

@@calzabbath who was she with? Don’t care, she was in high school and I was in junior high. She’s 4 1/2 years older than I am. I had many chicks before her so can’t be jealous

@darost Месяц назад

I was there! Won tickets from a radio station in Houston. Rode to and from on a nice air conditioned bus. Was way back in the stands. Music was brilliant! I'm old! 😎

@isgar2266 Месяц назад

Be nice to know if you won those tix from 101 KLOL?

@txdave2 Месяц назад

@@isgar2266 101 was such a great rock station back then. I remember this DJ named Crash.

@isgar2266 Месяц назад

@@txdave2 This is Crash in your dash!!!! Yea he always sounded intoxicated but he knew how to keep the rock going!!

@sfi3907 29 дней назад

@@txdave2 Dennis "Crash" Collins used to play bass with Johnny Winter. He's credited on the Second Winter album.

@txdave2 28 дней назад

@@sfi3907 That's cool. I saw Edgar Winter in concert in Houston in 1974. The opening act was Foghat. Great concert.

@patricksullivan7140 Месяц назад

Just a Lil Ole Band From Texas.

@shawnduffy3380 26 дней назад

Still Goin'

@midnightrambler3583 Месяц назад

It was advertised as “ZZ Top’s First Annual Bar-B-Q and Barn Dance”. We arrived at 11am and were told the BBQ was already gone! Actually there probably never was any. It was very hot and many people were overcome by it and needed medical assistance. I stood in line for almost two hours at a concession stand to get a Coke. The lineup of bands was incredible. Although it wasn’t mentioned I’m pretty sure Joe Cocker and Leon Russell also played. Definitely an experience not to be forgotten.

@davidcrouch7365 25 дней назад

I don't remember Leon Russell (and I would remember him) but Joe Cocker was definitely there. He was getting by with a little help from his friends.

@rhp_6926 Месяц назад

Saw ZZ Top play the Cow Palace back in the '70s. Got there way early and sat in line. Was noticing that the line seemed awfully long. Turns out the idiots had oversold the tickets. The organizers walked down the line, did a rough count and told the people past that point in the line that they weren't going to be allowed in. That's when the bottles started flying. Full on melee. They hustled the rest of us inside and we got a great show.

@sherwinstaudt1881 Месяц назад

All of these politicians didn't mention all the dope smoking that they consumed that day LOL.

@Hybridog 23 дня назад

Dope smoking was nowhere near as common then as it is now. It was a felony to possess even a tiny amount. Sure I knew people who smoked and there were always people at concerts doing it, but it was not widespread like people seem to think.

@witchfindergeneral13 Месяц назад

Now that’s a Texas style BBQ!

@MichaelCasteel-x1j Месяц назад

I was there also. Drove up from Corpus. It was a great time and I loved it. Great stories to tell my friends and my kids!

@michellevaldez47 28 дней назад

Do you remember the ticket price by chance? Just curious.

@dogfraust458 Месяц назад

I was there right up front.

@elizabethr4107 Месяц назад

Wow! That lineup!

@KASUN_M Месяц назад

Glad bless all the rock n rollers

@juno4494 27 дней назад

Isn't the "lack of water & food" thing a bit overblown? I attended dozens of these shows in the 70s and 80s and, as I recall, it was all about the tunes and partying and we didn't care a bit about food or water...in fact, such things never even crossed our minds. You did what you had to do in the parking lot before the show and then just went in and dug it. Of course, back then no one carried water around in little containers like they were crossing the Sahara, either....

@t4texastom587 28 дней назад

I still have my official "ZZ TOP'S FIRST ANNUAL BARNDANCE AND BARBECUE" tee-shirt! R. I. P. DUSTY 🇨🇱 HILL

@patjenkins783 29 дней назад

I was there. I have several memories from that day and night. I might even be in that photo. The pyramids people made between bands was a show in itself. And the blanket tossing was scary they sent those people so fricking high.

@robertfischer380 Месяц назад

Joe Cocker was there too

@burtcooper612 Месяц назад

I was there.

@sheilamcclellan8693 29 дней назад

My boyfriend went and I stayed home, watching the Jerry Lewis Telethon, bored out of my mind…lol

@tubbers20 28 дней назад

They should play Fairbanks when it's 50 below.

@danielbalboa4537 Месяц назад

Wish I was there...wasn't born yet 😅

@Tuftsedge1 Месяц назад

If there isn’t a little damage it’s not really a rock concert.😀🤘🏻

@MarginWalker 29 дней назад

1:53 :Stadium Damaged" Enough rubbish for 2 bags.

@IOSAGifts Месяц назад

KVUE, your channel is a must watch for me now

@derekheuring2984 14 дней назад

I saw them in 1976 in Seattle during their Worldwide Texas Tour.. The opening band was Elvin Bishop. Great concert!

@kgraham5820 20 дней назад

All absolutely amazing musicians! I bet the show was AWESOME!! How things turned out had less to do with the bands, and more to do with the organizers of the event! No matter what they say - Size does matter!!! 😂😂😂

@easy56wedge 24 дня назад

Why infamous? Infamous is used to describe a terrible occurrence or thing - like the attack on Pearl Harbor, the holocaust or mass shooting. Certainly not used to describe a ZZ Top concert! KVUE should know better!

@kentwooley7810 25 дней назад

So this was a story about the Texas heat at an outdoor concert in early September? How is that news? Anyone remember Texxas Jam in the late 70s? They were spraying the crowds with fire hoses to cool them off? ZZ Top with Bad Company opening? And they only expected 10-20 thousand people? Somebody was HIGH when they told Royal that.

@markothwriter 11 дней назад

Wow. This kind of thing is why I moved to Austin in 1994..... but then the town got over-crowded with lots of tech nerds. I left in 2004.

@encompassvideo5429 25 дней назад

Boomers be like " no water no food like OMFG I experienced diversity seeing ZZ Top. Lordy be!"

@jesseserna8424 2 дня назад

My favorite rock bands at 59 I would stand in do do some where up front to see them 😮🎸

@MB-xz1gh 21 день назад

Would have been 16 at that time just started driving. ZZ TOP in the 8 track rocking on down the road 😛😛

@MrNaturalSez 23 дня назад

ZZ Top's playing was **so hot** they melted Darrell Royal's plastic football field.

@jamiemcgill67 25 дней назад

Why didn’t they have water and food? Didn’t they serve this at football games? I mean it’s more revenue. Who could be so short sighted as to not provide beverages and food to sell to the concert goers??? I don’t get it.

@AsrafiHasan-o1e 25 дней назад

Martin Nancy Williams David Robinson Christopher

@michaels7566 Месяц назад

If the stadium was filled with seniors it would have been a morgue.

@smokeymon888 26 дней назад

lol. they're all seniors now

@garywagner2466 23 дня назад

Seniors were a lot tougher then. Tougher than concert goers today.

@smokeymon888 23 дня назад

@@garywagner2466 I was at that concert...and we're all seniors now. Seems like concerts along with everything else got tamed down as time went by. Sometime during the mid 80's, I went to see ZZ Top with Joan Jett at the Austin convention center...it was boring. Concerns aren't tough nowadays neither are most people. Almost everything seems like a farce. How do you determine how tough seniors were in 74? I don't associate with many folks anymore, especially seniors. That ZZ Top Concert in 74 was tough. I enlisted in the army a couple of weeks after the concert. Were you senior back then?

@michaels7566 23 дня назад

@@garywagner2466 Tougher but not necessarily in better health. A lot of heavy drinking and smoking back then. I grew up with the WW I and 2 generation.

@FredGriselda-z1f 17 дней назад

Hall Elizabeth Johnson Cynthia Young Jeffrey

@stevec6455 10 дней назад

I might of been there but wouldn't know for sure based on this worthless story.

@user-uy3bj9ue5c 16 дней назад

Waych for this crowd appearing in a Trump rally commercial.

@WatchFirst-d1d 17 дней назад

Taylor Jose Thomas Dorothy Rodriguez Kimberly

@Joseph-l6w Месяц назад

Zztop rule

@JoeookDummy-o8i 19 дней назад

Young Frank Hall Richard Johnson Deborah

@nigel900 26 дней назад

And nary a second of ZZ Top playing… Pitiful.

@buzz5969 26 дней назад

Never really listened to them cept what was played on the Radio.

@KarinGonzalez-y5h 16 дней назад

Young Mary Brown Patricia Wilson Betty

@GwenStephens-e4m 19 дней назад

Jones Kimberly Robinson Mary Lee Cynthia

@VanBronson 16 дней назад

Walker Amy Perez Sharon Jackson Brenda

@KristianAntonsen-y3t 18 дней назад

Lewis George Hall Betty Lopez Thomas

@AliciaNeal-r3b 17 дней назад

Martinez Ronald Taylor Deborah Martinez Margaret

@JoeMirabelle 16 дней назад

Harris Dorothy Perez Jeffrey Hall Timothy

@SadiaMajnu 18 дней назад

Brown Donald Young Sarah Davis Melissa

@GallacherKelly-o6e 19 дней назад

Miller Helen Johnson Betty Taylor Michael

@AlexShelton-m1o 17 дней назад

Lee Charles Jackson Frank Anderson Maria

@MonirahjahanOrpah 18 дней назад

Lee George Martin Eric Allen Kimberly

@bridgettegregory 19 дней назад

Miller Carol Hernandez Daniel Wilson Larry

@SherylThompson-m8f 16 дней назад

Robinson Susan Robinson Anthony White Jose

@petemarron6677 29 дней назад

Funky Kings.

@TinaMitchell-l7j 16 дней назад

Gonzalez Daniel Harris Frank Walker Gary

@ObadiahCorey-u7y 18 дней назад

Davis Larry Lee Timothy Lewis Barbara

@NoraGeorge-l5q 27 дней назад

Lewis Linda Harris Larry Thomas Mark

@edwinrodeo 27 дней назад

Definitely the baddist 3 pc band you ever hear. Saw them once, great times

@buzz5969 26 дней назад

I never saw them, never will, they not my gig.😊

@joeblow5037 9 дней назад

UT students are not that smart

@rendialves9042 29 дней назад

I've been to sporting events and yes,beverages and food are for sale. I've been to concerts...no food or water sold.

@RandyTerrell7174 Месяц назад

I was there

@calzabbath 26 дней назад

Has everyone noticed that rock is dead and today only lame imitations remain? No nostalgia or crying over times long gone, but as culture changed and the political landscape mutated several times rock music lost appeal. I'm 54 and the last concerts I can remember worthy of attending were around 1998. Since then, downhill in every regard as bands got older and no replacement showed up. Glad to have been there though.

@garywagner2466 23 дня назад

Bet you shout “Get off my lawn” at all the neighbourhood kids, too.

@calzabbath 23 дня назад

@@garywagner2466 shoot, not shout

@fliellerenterprises1198 18 дней назад

I was at that day long "First (and only) Annual ZZ Top Barn Dance and Barbeque" as well, sitting on the turf at about the 40 yard line, stage side. Indeed, it was blistering hot that day, and there were few if any concession stands, and the restrooms seemed to be a hundred miles away when they were desperately needed. I concur with the two gentleman interviewees when they say the music and camaraderie of the crowd made the suffering under the late summer sun totally worthwhile. Afterward, every convenience store in Austin was descended upon by profoundly parched and hungry concert goers. It is a memory I too will never forget.

@RayTuttle-of5qd Месяц назад

I was at that concert yeah it was hot! But I worked outside anyway so it was no big deal great concert

@GuyBoyce-o4j 27 дней назад

Martin Matthew Perez Barbara Hernandez Kimberly

@buzz5969 26 дней назад

Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson

@Maydoggie 26 дней назад

Similar story at Texas Stadium for the Texxas World Music Festival in 1979. The facilities staff hooked up firehoses and started spraying everyone on the field with water to help cool everyone down. It felt wonderful. Then after the sun went down and Heart had finished playing, the full moon rose behind the stage and Boston came out and blew us all away. (And we were already blown away by Sammy Hagar, Nazareth, BOC, Van Halen, and Heart.) If I recall correctly, the tickets were $35.

@bobschenkel7921 25 дней назад

There is a great photo of this event on the record sleeve of the ZZ Top album "Fandango", gotta 'Mellow Down Easy", y'all.

@DavidCarper-h1u 14 дней назад

Wastid

@JenniferRuiz-y8t 24 дня назад

Hoppe Point

@eazyridin7283 28 дней назад

A ha ha ha

@robertaccorsini4663 25 дней назад

Joe Cocker?

@kayoss662 28 дней назад

Amazing how times have changed. I’ll bet none of the “survivors” were whining at the time.

@davidcrouch7365 25 дней назад

I was there. We sat under the over head tier of seats, so the heat was not an issue with us. I don't remember any problems with drinking. We must have had our own, lol.

@flinch622 27 дней назад

Mid summer concerts can be brutal. I attended a show near Las Vegas one time: I think it was at least 109 degrees. I drank probably 3 gallons of water over the course of four hours and never had to use the restroom once - it just evaporated without hardly a bead of sweat.

@SeanMcGonigle-ul3xk 26 дней назад

My son and I drove 7 hours in the rain and stood in the rain all of the Willie Nelson concert last February in Apopka. Would do it 100 times more if possible.

@garyvallejo7049 29 дней назад

I was there it was how never saw any BBQ. The convenience stores around the venue were sold out of just about everything. Made me not want to go stadium concerts.

@Hammer4999 21 день назад

I was one of the people packed into this show. Somewhere close to the 35 yard line nearest the stage.

@halbertking2683 28 дней назад

Who was there ? Was Billy Gibbons playing his old Les Paul guitar ?

@TheoneGodfather 28 дней назад

Sounds like the four Texas Jams I went to.

@CatharineFay 29 дней назад

Martinez Dorothy Williams Barbara Robinson Jennifer

@RukiDance 29 дней назад

lol journos ALWAYS make the lies about them

@DavidinTexas Месяц назад

I Moved to Austin earlier that very Day. Your story left out a 'fan' cutting out a Texas shaped piece of the AstroTurf, It made UT (Darrel?) so mad, they swore no more concerts, EVAH... The ban lasted 20? years?

@ratmadness4858 28 дней назад

we drove up from San Antonio. We drove back to San Antoinio.

@jaorte10 28 дней назад

I was there.

@danielbrown7115 28 дней назад

You are old. I was in Austin at that time but was not at the concert. Stayed on S.Lakeshore near the River. I was on ScoPro @ UT. Spent 2 semesters before I found out partying was not a major.

@jaorte10 28 дней назад

@@danielbrown7115 66 doesn't feel old. I still work electrical construction 40 hrs a week.