Mary Welch y Los Curanderos

(Narrator)

This is about a group of artist that had a big impact on the look of the early music scene in Austin Texas from places like Valcan Gas Company (the Electric Grandmother), Raul's, Soap Creek, Antonios, The Armadillo World Headquarters, etc . with art work from Jack Jackson (Jaxon), Gilbert Sheldon, Jim Franklin, Micael Priest, Guy Juke, Henry Gonzales, Ken Featherston, Danny Garret, Bill Narum, Kerry Awn, Sam Yates,

and as far reaching as San Francisco in the 1960's The Avalon Ballroom and the Rip Off Press.

Also interviews with Gary Maxwell/Scanlan co-founder Valcan Gas Company also booked bands for Valcan and Avalon Ballroom in the late 60's. Margret Moser girlfriend to Jackson and work at Austin Chronicle in the 80's.Wali Stopher of Oat Willies. Sidey Brammer girlfriend to Micael Priest. Mark Andes talks about music scene and poster art.Tommy "X" Hancock talking about his and Jukes trip to Hollywood.Gaylan on the death of Ken Featherston.And many more.

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The Vulcan Gas Company,

(almost the Electric Grandmother)

(The Vulcan) was the first successful psychedelic music venue in Austin, Texas. The Vulcan opened its doors at 316 Congress Avenue in the fall 1967, and closed in the summer of 1970. Gary Maxwell;Scanlan, Houston White, Don Hyde, and Sandy Lockett started the Vulcan. By 1969, management was primarily by White and Lockett, along with Jim Franklin.

[I came to Austin during Christmas to visit my Mom an while at the IL Club I saw Houston White doing the light show.]

Jack Jackson (May 15, 1941–June 8, 2006)

Jaxon was the pen name of Jack Jackson

consider to be the first underground comix artist. Also he co-founded the Rip Off Press.

Jack Jackson was born in 1941 in Pandora, Texas. He majored in accounting at the University of Texas and was a staffer for its Texas Ranger humor magazine until he and others were fired over what he called "a petty censorship violation." So next he self-published the one-shot God Nose (1964), the first underground comic.

[Was Jackson girlfriend at the time.]

(Narrator)

Despite this, most of his underground comics work, heavily influenced by EC Comics, was published by Last Gasp.

Jackson is best known for his historical work documenting the history of Native

America and Texas, Comanche Moon (1979), El Alamo, Los Tejanos,

The Secret of San Saba, Indian Lover: Sam Houston & the Cherokees, and Lost Cause.

Jackson died June 8, 2006, in Stockdale, Texas, in an apparent suicide after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Gilbert Sheldon (May 31, 1940, Houston, Texas)

Is an American cartoonist and underground comix artist. He is the creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, based on people he knew here in Austin at the Armadillo like Charlie Prichard as Fat Freddy his real nickname was (Fat Charlie) Wonder Wart-Hog, Not Quite Dead and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album Shakedown Street.

He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston. He attended Washington and Lee University, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin where he received his bachelor's degree in the social sciences in 1961. His early cartoons were published in the University of Texas' humor magazine The Texas Ranger.

Directly after graduating, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines where he would sneak his drawings into print. The idea for the character of Wonder Wart-Hog, a porcine parody of Superman, came to him in 1961. The following year,

Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get a student

deferment from the draft. The first two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine, in the spring of 1962. He then became editor of The Texas Ranger and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories.

After switching from graduate school to art school (where he befriended singer Janis Joplin) for two years, he was finally drafted, but army doctors declared him medically unfit after he admitted to taking psychedelic drugs. After this, in 1964 and 1965 he spent some time in Cleveland, where his girlfriend at the time was going to the

Cleveland Art Institute. He applied for a job at the Cleveland-based American Greeting Card Company (where a fellow underground comic artist Robert Crumb had worked) but was turned down.

Around this time Shelton became art director for the Vulcan Gas Company, a rock music venue in Austin, Texas, where he worked with Jim Franklin.

(Narrator)

Shelton created a number of posters in the style of contemporary California poster artists such as Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin. A year of this he moved to San Francisco in the summer of 1968 to be closer to the action would enable him to do more poster work he finally got his break in the alternative comix business.

That same year, Millar Publishing Company, who had been publishing regular Wonder Wart-Hog stories since 1966, published two issues of Wonder Wart-Hog Quarterly. 140,000 copies of each were printed, but distributors did

not pick up the magazine and only 40,000 of each were sold.

After a strip named Feds 'n' Heads (published by Print Mint), Gilbert created his most famous strip, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in 1968, and Fat Freddy's Cat in 1969, when he also co-founded Rip Off Press.

Shelton currently lives in Paris, France. His most recent work, in collaboration with French cartoonist Pic, is Not Quite Dead, which appeared in Rip Off Comix #25 and in five Not Quite Dead comic books. In addition to a new Wonder Wart-Hog story in Zap Comix #15 (2005), his Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are currently being turned into a stop-motion animated film.

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did a lot poster art also one of which was the Oat Willies

character which was based on Wallie Stopher.

Jim Franklin (born 1943) is an artist best known for his poster art created for the Armadillo World Headquarters, a former Austin, Texas music hall.

Franklin was born in Galveston, Texas and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Returning to Texas, he teamed

with musicians and artists to open a psychedelic music hall in Austin, called the Vulcan Gas Company. Franklin lived in the club and was its primary poster artist for bands such as Shiva's Headband, 13th Floor Elevators, Conqueroo, and Canned Heat. At the Vulcan, Franklin and Gilbert Shelton worked together for the first time.

[ (born February 19, 1948) is an American musician, known for his work as a bassist with Spirit(rock/psychedelic band founded in 1967, based in Los Angeles, California.

), Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own, Firefall(was a rock band that

formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. It was founded by Rick Roberts, who had been in the Flying Burrito Brothers), Heart, and Mirabal.]

(Narrator)

Franklin began drawing armadillos in 1968 and it became a symbol of the hippie counterculture movement in Texas.[3] He used this armadillo motif when creating the album art for Shiva's Headband's first record, Take Me to the Mountains and poster art for the Armadillo World Headquarters. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen live recording, Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas features Franklin's armadillo art, as does the Freddie King albums, Texas Cannonball and Woman Across the River.

Franklin also wrote Underground comix and created Armadillo Comics. Franklin's armadillo paintings earned him the nickname, the "Michelangelo of armadillo art."

Jim Franklin's cover art for Shiva's Headband, Take Me To the MountainsMany of Franklin's paintings and posters are signed with the initials,

JFKLN. He continues to paint and is often seen on opening nights at the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture

other of Austin’s Poster artist did posters for Vulcan Gas

Company an the Armadillo World Headquarters etc.

Micael Priest was one of the artist involved in the underground comix

scene in Austin, Texas, which was mainly based around concert hall

Armadillo World Headquarters. Micael Priest was, together with Jim

[Micael Priest’s girlfriend at the time.]

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(the San Francisco, Ca. connection)

is a legendary music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco that

operated briefly from 1966 until 1968, and again from 2003 to the present. It is located at 1268 Sutter Street, on the north side, one building east of the corner of Sutter and Van Ness.

(Narrator)

Jackson moved to San Francisco in 1966, where he became art director of the dance poster division of Family Dog.

[Add Gary talking about working at Family Dog]

(Narrator)

In 1969, he co-founded Rip Off Press, one of the first independent publishers of underground comix, with three other Texas transplants, Gilbert Shelton, Fred Todd, and Dave Moriaty.

(Micael Priest)

[Talking about Rip Off Press]

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Chapter 7

(usually called simply The Armadillo) was the premiere music hall and entertainment center in Austin, Texas from 1970 to 1980

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(Sept. 1951), aka De White, Blackie White,

Arrived on the scene in 1972 he also did some of the early Oat Willie posters and poster art for bands like Frank Zappa, Rickie Lee Jones, etc. Guy Juke (distant relative of Stanford White) has been an Austin, Texas based artist and musician since moving there in 1973 from nearby San Angelo, Texas. He started his career by writing and illustrating underground comics. As a poster artist he has created memorable imagery for nightclubs such as Armadillo World Headquarters along with Sam Yeates, Michael Priest and Jim Franklin. His work is recognized for its darkly detailed, often shadowy and angular figures inspired by horror films, haunting western landscapes, and loopy cartoon characters. Performers such as Joe Ely, B-52s, Willie Nelson, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Pavarotti and Asleep At The Wheel, Roy Buchanan are all immortalized via his graphic design. As a musician he has performed as a guitarist with Butch Hancock, Doak Snead, Ponty Bone and lately as Blackie White in the Cornell Hurd Band. He recently designed the logos and posters for author and musician Kinky Friedman's 2006 campaign for Texas Governor. He is also credited with the cover art of The Ramones 1981 album "Pleasant Dreams". Obama posters 2008

[Talks about Jukes name and trip to LA]

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did band poster for (insert names here) and had the vision to start the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture.

did some great posters for bands like Marshal Tucker Band etc.

Before is life was cut short by a bullet Meant for Henry Gonzales who was a bouncer at the Armadillo for throwing someone out. And died in his best friend Henrys arms.

[Talks about Ken]

(Narrator)

did many memorable posters for Willie Nelson etc. I was

born on February 21, 1945 in Dodge City, Kansas -- a birthplace distinction that I share with Dennis Hopper. Born there only because of my father’s war time service, I spent the first 7 years of my life in my parents’ home town of Mart, Texas about 17 miles east of Waco until we moved to Lake Jackson, on the upper Texas coast in 1952. I graduated from Brazosport High School in 1963. I entered the University of Houston that fall and majored in Finance. After those two foolish moves, I relocated to Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches in 1966. In January 1968 I graduated with a BA in History.

After one semester of graduate school, I was drafted in June 1968. After training stints at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Ft. Ord in Monterrey, California, and Ft. Benning, Georgia, I shipped out for Viet Nam. There I was ensconced in the Americal Division, home of such military luminaries as Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and Lt. William Calley of My Lai infamy. After 10.5 months there I returned home with an honorable discharge and shrapnel in my left eye. This concluded the "BC" part of my life.

Home and out of the service, I began the second or "AD" part of my life in the spring of 1970 by moving to Austin, Texas. I was one of the very lucky individuals that spent that wonderful decade in that incandescently wonderful city. This is also where and when I

began to practice my art. Looking up Jim Franklin at Armadillo World Headquarters, I was given my first poster assignment, John Sebastian. From that spring until New Year’s Eve, 1979, I executed over a dozen AWHQ titles. I

also did work for Castle Creek, Soap Creek Saloon, The Texas Opry House,

The Austin Opera House, and many other Austin music venues. In 1976, I also began work for Antone’s, Austin’s Home of the Blues.

It is probably for my work at Antone’s, 1976 – 2005, for which I am best known in music art and ephemera. Clifford Antone created the finest blues club in the world in the last quarter of the 20th Century and it was my greatest and enduring honor to have been a part of that. I had the privilege of meeting and promoting some of the greats of the Chicago blues scene – Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, B. B. King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy and James Cotton – just to name a few. It was also my great honor to hear and promote the blues from such young Texas artists like Jimmie Vaughan, Derek O’Brien, Denny Freeman, Paul Ray and Stevie Ray Vaughan – again, just to name a few.

Other musicians that I have had the honor of promoting include – but are not limited to – Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Charles, Warren Zevon, and Eric Clapton.

In addition to the music work that I have done, there is also a substantial body of film and computer game work that I have done as well. I was the art director of the award-winning Daniel Erickson film, Scary Movie, additionally doing copious signage, prop and set work, as well as storyboarding for a number of studio productions. From 1991 – 1997, I worked in the computer game industry, specifically for Origin Systems.

In January of 2005 I moved to Auckland, New Zealand. I currently reside there and am a full-time lecturer at Auckland

University of Technology, where I teach art and design, both traditional and digital.

Danny Garrett

Auckland, New Zealand

April 17, 2006

Austin native, began his professional career

in Houston, Texas where his album covers, poster art, T-shirts and

political cartooning became synonymous with it's counter culture

movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. narum's trade mark

signature is recognized world wide for the artwork and staging he

created for "that little ol' band from Texas" ZZ Top.

In the early 1970s narum returned to Austin to join with fellow

Sheauxnough Studio artists in creating artwork for the underground

press and various music venues, including the famous concert hall

Armadillo World Headquarters. narum opened GOGO Studios in

the 1980s to service Austin's burgeoning music industry producing

album covers, posters and logo designs for Stevie Ray Vaughan

and many local musicians, clubs and record labels. In 1988 narum

was voted AustinPoster Artist of the Year in the Chronicle's people's

choice awards for his Continental Club poster series. In 1993 narum

was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Austin for

providing a valued and distinguished service to the public through

his artwork. narum's artwork has been acquired by City and State

historical preservation archives and private collectors world wide.

narum began experimenting with computer graphics in the mid-

1980s and is currently involved with several innovative multimedia

and Internet related projects, as well as continuing to produce

artwork for the music industry.

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did lots of Soap Creek Posters, Charlie Damiels Band, Uranium Savages

Balcones Vault