Angus Wynne

A Sign of the Times on the Margaret Hunt Hill and Other Snapshots From Saturday

​Our pros have been all over the Margaret Hunt Hill this weekend, with one, Jay Barker, sending word from the sun-up service this morning that Santiago Calatrava "hinted that this three-day celebration was a bit excessive." Ya don't say. You can see Danny and Paul and Jay's their fine work at ... More >>

Jimi Hendrix Plays Memorial Auditorium: A Recording From 1969 and A Poster from '70

​One of the best photos we've ever posted to Unfair Park was this February 16, 1968, snapshot of Angus Wynne and Jimi Hendrix taken at Love Field, shortly before Dallas experienced the man and his band at the Fair Park Music Hall. That picture, of course, accompanied an audience recording of the J ... More >>

Forgotten, But Not Lost, The Kavemen, One of Dallas's Many Great Garage Rockers of the '60s

​Longtime friends of the show know of my obsession with the local garage-rock scene of the mid-1960s; if and when I ever write a book ... Ah. Anyway. To the estimable list that includes, oh, The Chessmen, Kit and the Outlaws, Mouse and the Traps, Floyd Dakil, The Esquires, The Briks, Kenny & t ... More >>

It Only Took 33 Years For Dallas Filmmakers to Get Due Credit For "Lost" Stones Concert Film

Jagger and Richards in Some Girls Live shot in Fort Worth​A reminder: Tonight and tonight only is that big-screen screening of The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, shot during the band's Will Rogers Auditorium stopover on July 18, 1978, under the moniker the "London Green Shoed Cowboys." ... More >>

At Long Last, Texas International Pop Festival In Lewisville to Receive a State Historical Marker

The scene in Lewisville during Labor Day weekend 1969​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park are by now well aware of my lifetime obsession with the Texas International Pop Festival, held during Labor Day weekend in 1969 in a Lewisville field. The roster, put together by, among others, Angus Wynne, was l ... More >>

For Sale, a Very Rare Keepsake From When The Byrds Played the Forest Ballroom in June 1968

Heritage Auction Galleries​Says here the the Forest Theater was built in '47; my father, who grew up a few blocks over on Park Row, recalls how, in the mid-'50s, Shearith Israel used the movie theater for High Holiday services when they were finishing out the synagogue's present-day location on Wa ... More >>

For Your Monday Listening Pleasure: Robert Hunter Comes Alive at Poor David's in 1986

David Card at Poor David's on Lower Greenville in a photo taken some time in the mid-1980s​I was digging through our old photo archives Friday afternoon -- I think I'm the only one left 'round here who knows we even have such a thing -- looking for a photo that, turns out, I remembered wrong. I th ... More >>

Stoney Burns, Co-Founder of Underground Paper Dallas Notes and Buddy, Has Died

Stoney Burns as seen in Mickey Grant's documentary about the so-called Lee Park Massacre of 1970​Angus Wynne just called with the sad news: Stoney Burns -- who, in 1967 co-founded The Dallas Notes and then The Iconoclast and would go on to publish Buddy Magazine -- died early this morning at Baylo ... More >>

Rest in Peace, Tom Vandergriff

At left, City of Arlington; at right, James William Dunlop via UTA LibraryAt right is a photo of the first cars to come off the GM assembly line in Arlington. Standing at center is Tom Vandergriff.​Victor Vandergriff tells the Star-Telegram: His father, former Arlington mayor Tom Vandergriff, died ... More >>

My First Show: True Widow's Dan Phillips Saw A Decapitated Alice Cooper At The Bronco Bowl

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.That's Dan over there on the couch.​As impressive as their 2008 self-titled debut was, expect plenty of good things to come from Tru ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Texas International Pop Festival "Box Set"

​Richard Hayner, keeper of the Texas International Pop Festival website, maintains he's still -- still -- writing a book about that Labor Day Weekend when Angus Wynne brought Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Ten Years After, Santana, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone and on and on and ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Jimi Hendrix on Fire at the Fair Park Music Hall

Photo Taken by Chris Campbell Turner/Courtesy Angus Wynne​When I first met Angus Wynne some 20 years ago, when I was at the Dallas Times Herald, this photo was on his desk -- a most impressive introduction. I remember asking him: "Were you friends with Jimi Hendrix?" But I didn't remember his answ ... More >>

For Your Mid-Week Listening Pleasure: Texas International Pop Fest Goes "The" Led Zeppelin

​But five long days ago I directed your attention to Led Zeppelin's May 18, 1973, stopover at Memorial Auditorium -- one, apparently, in a series of Zep-Does-Dallas posts. And while we've time-traveled to The Summer of '69 once or twice before to revisit the band's appearance at the Texas Internat ... More >>

The Frozen Fracas: Pink Thing vs. Lemon Chill

​Angus Wynne Jr. is credited for many things in his long life and illustrious career. Besides developing a major portion of Oak Cliff in a post WWII building frenzy, he also played a major role in saving Love Field from the clutches of a monopoly that gripped the airport tightly in the hands ... More >>

S-S-Seriously, Phil Collins Is Coming to Hall of State at Fair Park Next Month to Talk Alamo

Bill Chemerka, co-author of Music of the Alamo: From 19th Century Ballads to Big-Screen Soundtracks, with Phil Collins​Not making that up -- the press release that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box follows. But long story short: The Genesis singer-drummer is a ginormous Alamo fetishist -- so m ... More >>

At a Mere 46, "Larger-Than-Life" Photographer Brian Barnaud Died on Friday

Brian Barnaud​Jeff Liles called early this morning with the astonishing, sad news: Brian Barnaud, photographer and longtime Deep Ellum fixture, died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 46. Teresa Gubbins has the details: "According to a family friend, Barnaud hadn't been feeling well ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: When 'The Summer of Love' Meant Sex In a Club

"Are you one of the beautiful people? Is my name on the list? I want to be with the beautiful people... I wanna feel like I'm missed..." Eels - "Guest List" I went to high school with a kid named Greg Holman. His father was a painter named George, who lived in the old Expo Park space that l ... More >>

A Coffee-Table Tribute to Those Who Built This City (Not on Rock and Roll)

Echoes And Reverberations: The Ghosts Of The Longhorn Ballroom

The Shock Wave Felt 'Round the Amusement Park Business

AFI Dallas: The Joy in Joy Division, and The Monster Among Us

Sorry, Rest of Dallas, Your Name is Not on the Guest List

Led Zeppelin Comes to Lewisville, ca. 1969

Angus Wynne Remembers His Old Friend, James Brown

Out of Africa

Kwanzaa is community, not characters and catchphrases

A River Runs Through Him

Lewis MacAdams comes home for WordSpace

Tired of Waiting

The center of the musical universe, Austin welcomes the beautiful and the ugly

Best revival of a shopping center

Wynnewood Village

Thanks, but no thanks

D Magazine has an interesting take on the local music scene

The preacher and the Prophet

Why can't we all just get along? The history, or not, of Russell and Jeff's Deep Ellum

The (W)right to Fly

How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

Feeling the Burn

Unpaid Taxes, missing money, and a bitter business divorce threaten the empire of fitness guru Larry North

Hank, junior

Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway