WILLIE NELSON - News report on the 1974 Austin music scene 

Waylon was day 6 of a 3 day bender

Waylon looked like he was starting to trip balls in a room full of sober people and was trying hard to be cool and normal. Been there, buddy. ❤️

Waylon tried to get me to sell him beer one night after midnight in 1974. I worked at a shamrock station on riverside drive. Good times.

Love how Waylon just appears out of nowhere and doesn’t say a word lol. Just brooding in the background haha

Waylon had not crashed yet, but he was definitely coming down for a landing...

Waylon was loud without saying a word.

Funny to see Willie chilling after a spliff and Waylon sweating out some speed.

Awesome Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings 🎸👍

So sad we don’t have record stores anymore(very few). It was fun and nice to see everyone looking through the music. Everything online is just not the same 😢 😞

This is such a real treat. So nostalgic. A snapshot of beautiful musical history. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Waylon was hammered! Coked out and I think he has a joint in his hand LOL. Good times! ✌💀👍🎸🎼🎶🎵🔥🇺🇸

Waylon is toast

Ive lived in Austin for a long time and its still cool if you know what your doing and where to be. Every city changes and some changes I dont like some but some I do, and thats life. Your city isnt the same as it was in 1974 either. A bunch of fools carrying on in this thread. Id just celebrate that we have this footage from that time and music these legends gave us. Willie still is the #1 guy in Austin. Yea he may technically live in spicewood but he has done so much for the city over the years. you guys have no idea how much charity stuff he has done. He is truly an awesome human. Now more interestingly, its not that often you see him playing Waylon's tele. Though ive seen him play a strat and sometimes he even pulls out a crazy green headless electric. But no one sees such things at regular shows of course, people would be shocked to see Willie without Trigger.

Waylon's a man of few words. My kind of man.

There is no more cool left in the world, it at died with Waylon.

"We don't want a bunch of *high roller, rip-off artists* from other parts . . . come in here and foul it up for the rest of the uh, people." Well those people showed up in 2023 and gave themselves awards.

Been a long time since a reporter said he was going to talk to people with differing opinions

waylon was so naturally cool

Did the reporters simply not know that the guy next to Willie Nelson, 17 sheets to the wind, was Waylon Jennings!? You know, just a founding father of Outlaw Country, no big deal. Haha! This is good television...

Waylon looks BAKED! That was back when the term “liberal” was a respected moniker. Today, in 2024, I am considered conservative to the core. Apples for apples, I would have been a liberal then.

Waylon was just the King of the country outlaws. Enuff said.

Thanks for the great video! Waylon was interviewed by another channel at the same time :D And good to see that Willie hasn't been old for ever :)

Waylon was completely mashed on that couch

In the 1970’s I would occasionally have to stay with my grandparents. They were not fans of rock and roll except for Elvis. But they would religiously tune into Austin City Limits. Occasionally ASL would feature a rock act and that was totally fine with them. It was totally fine with me too!

Thise folks from KOKE FM really should have helped poor Waylon out in his time of need.

Waylon and Willie had been up for at least 10 days when this interview took place. Austin’s own KOKE, indeed

willie playing waylons geetar is something i had never seen before

Awesome rare footage of Waylon. I was hoping he was going to talk a bit

The Koke fm radio station was a nice touch😂

The difference between coke & whiskey and marijuana right there as clear as day folks.

Willie playing waylon’s Telecaster

Gotta love Waylon Jennings ❤

Waylon was meditating

Outlaws and Heroes.

Music is better when it's organic and free. When the business creeps in it gets watered down and ruined. Rinse, repeat.

Willie talkin' but Waylon was the loudest in the room.

Willie using Waylon’s guitar just looks weird lol

Austin is essentially the Berkeley (CA), or Portland (OR) of Texas.

Waylon toe up from the floe up. The GOAT!

What a shame, Austin went from "weird" to "nuts". People are fleeing that city in droves.

Austin turned in to what Willie didn’t want. Waylon would hate it.

Waylon was wiped out and Willie borrowed his guitar. I’m glad that later, Waylon kicked the drug habit and enjoyed his sobriety with his family.

Unfortunately all those scumbags he was talking about have in fact ruined Austin

Hard to believe Waylon Jennings played on stage with Buddy Holly's last performance and escaped death by the coin flip.

cool seeing Willie on a Tele.

Waylon look ripped

Waylon looks really high. It's sad to see him like that but he's looking very handsome as always.

This is great stuff to hear.

Could you please upload the full Austin City Limits Songwriters Special from Season 5 in 1980? With Willie Nelson, Hank Cochran, Red Lane, Floyd Tillman, Whitey Shafer, and Sonny Throckmorton; It has The Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council logo, Austin City Limits intro and funding credits, Lickona's introduction, closing and funding credits, and the 1971-1984 PBS logo at the end.👍

Hey Waylon!

No mention of or even words from Waylon who was sitting right there?

Wow Waylon was reeeally not sober there xD 2:31

Waylon speaking cool

How high are Waymore and Willie in this clip???? "I'll never smoke weed with Willie again..."

Beautiful song I grew up on as a child 💜🤍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🚸🚸🚸🚸🚸🚸🚸🚸🙏🙏 Amen Jesus is coming back

Waylon high as fuck

Love this shit , I can smell it

Every type of music has it high point. Overall music has been done for some time now. The is Nothing that has not been done before, musically.

Legends!

My Stars was Waylon a Hottie! Gorgeous! RIP ⭐️

If this isn’t a public service message for reefer, I don’t know what is. Don’t do pills Kids! Waylon barely hanging on.

Willie and Waylon are legends, and they made great music. But, Austin, today is the San Francisco of Texas, complete with human feces and hypodermic needles in the streets. Definitely, not an idyllic city, an embarrassment to Texas.

Waylon's on day 5 of a 3 day bender.

Back when Austin's glory days

Waylon high as a kite........

Can’t get much better than this shit lol

“Wouldn’t want any high rollers or rip off artists from other parts of the world, to come and take over”………….and then guess what happened……CALIFORNIA.

You know for how much Waylon was on coke, I think this is one of the only times Waylon was very obviously not sober on camera, there’s definitely been other times he wasn’t sober on camera but he didn’t make it anywhere near as obvious on camera as much as he did here

Coincidentally, the record shown spinning at KOKE at 1:21 is from the Grateful Dead’s “Skullf-ck” album.😂

Lmao ..waylon is breathing 100 miles ah minuite. Coked out...lol.

I hear people raising cane saying country is no longer country. It's funny, I remember my father saying the same thing about Willy, Waylon, Dwight Yoakam, and Garth Brooks. He was a Country and Western fan, but he gave in, and loved Merrill Haggard. I remember not long before he died, he owned a 74 ford 1 ton, and I moved it. I was shocked to hear him listening to the Eagles. I teased him and he said he had gotten a tape of them at the auction and had not taken it out for three weeks. Gotta change to grow, if not you're like a ball stuck on an escalator....

W A Y L O N

willie!!!!

Haha, Ole Watasha pleading the 5th on this one, smart man. Higher than Cooter Brown 😂

Waylon was smoking a joint he was probably coked up too.

KOKE FM in Austin - Ya just can't make this stuff up

These two were uh up for a few nights at this point during filming 😵‍💫😳😆

Waylon was no left wing lunatic.

we still drink LoneStar and Shiner 1:41

the short haired stranger 🤠

Jennings' on the nod

Closed minded people think liberal is a dirty word because they closed their minds while only half full. Willie knew and still knows what he is talking about and I made it to the Split Rail and Armadillo just in time in 1976. The Broken Spoke is still going and I still go.

Waylon was messed up!

WJ WAS TUNED LIKE A MF IVE HEARD IF YOU TRY TALKING ITS GIBBERISH BUT I KNOW NOTHING OF THAT 😮😂😮😂😊😊

i feel waylon's struggle to stay calm. lol ready to tell them to move on so i can hit another bump

Poor austin...what happened to you?

It's funny the station was named "koke fm" that probably field the whole station lol waylon was so high he lost the power of speech lol

The fattest man in this video was only like 195 lbs... Times have changed so much .. Their notion of a "Liberal" then would be a hard right conservative today.. Austin was Amazing until about 2005

I think Waylon is just damn tired y’all. A little high? Probably… Maybe some beers over the limit… ? Yeh… Could be. But… Come oooon, looks confy on that couch, chillin’ with his blunt listenin’ his Pal talkin’. Thats all.

That lick at 3:42! Phew

God bless Willie. This was when Country music was smart and soulful. Then conservative Nashville, Inc. Mafia took over.

Good Lord 😂 Jennings is shyt mixed🥴

wonder who the hi rollers willy's talking about are

Waymore prolly got a McDonald's straw in his pocket.

Waylon 🤣🤣🤣

Lol Waylons fucked up right here

Austin is nearly ruined by yuppies in cognito

Waylon on coke being interviewed on KOKE.

Is there anywhere I can find the willie concert footage at the end?

Now Rogan lives there and it sucks.