Raul's was a legendary punk rock club of the smallest sort in Austin Texas.It was the birthplace of the seminal bands The Big Boys, The Dicks, The Huns,and MDC , and midwife to The Butthole Surfers.Austin music critic Margaret Moser said it better than I ever could:"Raul's never intended to be a punk palace; mgr. Joseph Gonzalez hoped to mix a little tex-mex music with the rock and roll planned for the newly opened bar in '78. Within six months, the little club west of the University of Texas had a reputation as the focal point for New Wave Music in Austin, and the atmosphere being created was so vibrant and productive, even Patti Smith and Elvis Costello were prompted to make unexpected appearances (both with the Skunks, incidentally)Word got out that Raul's was the southwest's most active new wave scene and was sought out by visitors like Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, and Deborah Harry as well as members of the Dictators and John Cale's band.
None of this is important, because nothing lasts forever, especially the many futures of rock. New Wave has been everything from the british invasion to the tres punk Sex Pistols to to Devo's neo-scientific techno-rock and the B-52's early 60's stylings. Intangible and non-linear as the term New Wave is, it can be applied to any group whose music consciously rejects the predictable patterns of 70's rock. "--Margaret Moser,
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I'd like to meet:
Anyone who ever played, danced, drank, got 86'd, or puked at Raul's Club, Austin Texas, 1978-1981. Or anyone who knows enough about music to know it was inarguably one of the best music venues in the U.S.
I just love this slide show.
Music:
13 great songs from archives of the Austin punk scene 77-81. Scroll through to hear your old favorites! Eat Death Scum!
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The Huns
The Dicks
The Big Boys
Stains/MDC
David Dictor of MDC w/ the Dicks
The Skunks, jamming with Patti Smith @ Raul's, 1978
Biscuit
Steve Marsh--Terminal Mind
The Huns bust
The Huns, Standing Waves, Dicks, Big Boys, The Skunks, Sharon Tate's Baby, The Next, Boy Problems, Black Flag, Fear, Butthole Surfers, Gang of Four, The Droogs, Aces 88, Terminal Mind, The Jitters, God On Drugs, Scratch Acid, The Vendettas, D-Day, The Explosives, The Foams, The Chickadiesels, Toxic Shock,The Whoom Elements, Sally and the Norvells, Psychedelic Furs, The Delinquents, Roky Erickson, Inserts, The Offenders, The Stains (later MDC), Jerrys Kids, Derelicts, Gator Family, Legionaire's Disease, Charismatics, Invisibles,Bang Gang, Fudge Tunnels, Austin Strangler, Teenage Popeye, Electros, Joe 'King' Carrasco, Stiff Kittens, Skuds, the Rejects, Action Toys, Electric Tools, Delta, Radio Planets, Patti Smith, Finz, Killerwattz, Dinettes, Casa-Novas, SKP's, Reptilicus, Sensuous Plastique, the Court Reporters, N.C.M., The Incomparable, Insex, Diamond Joe, Ideals, Mannequin, Kamikaze Refridgerators, Skyscrapers, Controllers, Voracious Tarts, the Mistakes, The Reactors, Radio Free Europe, Skylab, Reversible Cords, the Violators, Hormoans, the Judys, the Other Guys, the Shades, F-Systems, Perverted Popes, Max and the Make-ups. Get Your Own! | View Slideshow and we all worshipped The Ramones and the Sex Pistols, of course!
Movies:
The Huns , 1979, Live at Raul's Club
American Hardcore Trailer (Note :This trailer ORIGINALLY began and ended with 2 killer songs from the Austin scene, "Dicks Hate Police" by The Dicks, and "Monotony", by the Next.As soon as I commented to the American Hardcore site that I hoped appropriate credit was given to the Austin scene, (which was NOT posted) the trailer on youtube was EDITED, obviously because the film did not obtain permission from the bands, one of whom at least knew NOTHING about it being used. What the fuck is this, a punk rock cover up? I know I am not the only person who viewed this!!!Roadie. Slacker. Almost Famous. Sid and Nancy. Hellbent. Dazed and Confused. The Filth and the Fury. Heathers. Pink Flamingos. Female Trouble. Desperate Living. The Great Rock-n-Roll Swindle. Prey For Rock and Roll. Velvet Goldmine. Badlands. Sex Pistols Live at the Longhorn. The Doom Generation. Rebel Without A Cause. Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Ciao! Manhattan. Go. El Topo. Nowhere. SLC Punk! Wigstock.
Television:
don't watch no fuckin' TV!
Books:
Fucked Up and Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement, Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1992, Main lines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste, Never The Same Again, Electric Ladyland: Women In Rock Culture,Big Book of Austin Punk-Era Posters and Images Vols. 1 and 2, Please Kill Me, We Got the Neutron Bomb.
Heroes:
Smile, Hippy!
Dixon Edge Coulbourn,R.I.P.:photographer/archivist/webmaster of the "Idle Time" website. Responsible for keeping us all in touch with one another, one of the first ever and best punk sites, it is lovingly maintained by his friends at Wedigdixon.com. Randall J "Biscuit" Turner, beloved singer of the Big Boys, Cargo Cult, Swine King, The Slurpees and an Esther's Follies' devotee, eccentric artist and funny clown. Both R.I.P. 2005. We miss you both dearly!
Joseph Gonzalez and Bobby Morales, who embraced us into Raul's establishment and gave us a home there, bringing together outcasts of all walks of life.
AND, all the Cheap Girls!!!!!
