“Face to Face” Zakary Thaks
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadass. Ripping out of South Texas in 1966, spewing attitude and fuzz. This one goes to 11!

Austin was the cool place to play but San Antonio's position as THE rock destination in the 60s has been forgotten. In this poster, The 13th Floor Elevators and Shiva's Head Band headline a weekend with Austin favorites South Canadian Overflow and San Antonio's The Swiss Movement, who opened for Jimi Hendrix.

“San Antonio’s poster art scene did not develop as fully as Austin’s, but these art pieces and photographs tell a long-forgotten story of S.A. music in the 60s,” believes TLMA founder Margaret Moser, who grew up in San Antonio and writes for the Austin Chronicle. “That era includes the biggest names in rock & roll – three performances by Jimi Hendrix, for example – and reveals San Antonio as the favored tour stop through the early 1970s. These posters have never been considered as part of the city’s history.”

Part reunion show, part awards ceremony, TLMA celebrates San Antonio and South Texas’s vast contribution to the Texas music pantheon. With the Teen Canteen club as a constant thread and proving ground for young bands, San Antonio rock & roll in the 60s boasted a remarkably diverse and largely unsung music community that spread to clubs all across the city and exploded in 1969, when the Sunday Sunken Garden shows attracted thousands of young people to Brackenridge Park.

In its first year, Texas Legacy Music will honor among its musicians, bands, and media personalities the art of Dan “Boogie” Winans. Winans, along with his brother Charles, was a fixture in San Antonio’s counterculture scene as proprietor of Granny’s Tea House, but it was Boogie’s loopy, trippy pen-and-ink flyers for the Sunken Gardens shows on Sunday afternoon that gave San Antonio’s late 60s music a look as identifiable as Jim Franklin’s posters at the Vulcan Gas Company and later the Armadillo World Headquarters. Winans created murals and a popular line of t-shirts for Lone Star Beer in the 70s, but his art has never been shown in context with music.

Featured acts at this year’s Labor Day weekend event include legendary 60s acts The Bubble Puppy, Ultra, The Outcasts, Swiss Movement, Laughing Kind, South Texas supergroup Stone Soul Clique (including Chris Gerniottis of Zakary Thaks), and the Westside Horns. In addition to Winans, honorees also include Augie Meyer, Harvey Kagan, and Publio Casillas for Lord August & the Vision of Lite, the late Chris Holzhaus, and Gene Kurtz, composer of “Treat Her Right.”

Tickets at $17.50 advance, $20 at door; online at liveatfloores.com or at all Planet K Texas stores.

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Michael Ann Coker
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