Texas alt-punkers from the 80s

Scratch Acid were insane live. David Yow is one batty-arse MFer.

Stick Men were just a cover band by the time I saw them around '88 or so.

Bobby Soxx! Also, I like the Dicks lightyears more than Big Boys.

Legionaire's Disease Band - "Rather See You Dead" is probably my favorite song from this era.

Good call, in retrospect. I left them off deliberately since they were signed to a major, but that's really uncalled for - they were weirder than anybody for a long, long time.

I saw Stick Men only once, in Dallas - the details are blurry but it had to be either 85 or 86. They were easily as out there as the best Buttholes shows I ever saw - they really didn't play any "songs" as much as just monumentally weird off for like two hours straight. I swear Bobby Soxx was just half a step from being Texas' version of G.G. Allin. My buds and I were up near the stage when the show started and we moved off toward the back in a fricking hurry, LOL.

Long Overcoat was a misprint - the correct name is Lung Overcoat. Along with the Kamikazes, possibly my favorite of all the Texas bands I ever saw. They were good friends with Woody and so did a shite ton of shows in Baton Rouge.

Never saw the Dicks so I can't comment on them, but one name I forgot was Austin's Marching Plague. Decent, nothing special.

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Interesting question there, and I bet I know the show you're talking about. Pretty sure Love Tractor only ever came to BR once, and it was at the old Mothers Mantel club (or Nieman's) down Highland Rd a ways.

Woody promoted that show, and it's about the only one he ever made any money on. I think you're mixing shows here though because I'm pretty sure the local Our favorite Band was the warmup. In fact now I know they were, because a drunk-arse Maury was jumping up on stage damn near every other song to sing with LT. I swear to fricking God, every time he heard anything remotely like a Stones riff he was up on the stage.

Lung Overcoat did share the bill with Section 25, is that the show you remember?

LO was the band who tried to look as much like Joy Division as they could and had a very Cure-like sound. They had some fricking good songs too.

Reverend Horton Heat came out of Dallas in the 1980's. They mixed rockabilly, punk, surf, swing and country.

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Austin: Big Boys, Scratch Acid, Glass Eye, Daniel Johnston, Hickoids, Kamikaze Refrigerators

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Don't remember them. Followed Club Iguana and DJ Merzad mostly

Yep, another mid 80s thing, can't remember the exact year but it was during the winter. They, Lung Overcoat and some local act called Bridge Troll (never heard of before or since) played at the Cotillion Ballroom on campus.
It was quite the event, everyone was like "holy shite, a Factory band coming to BR!". I thought they were pretty underwhelming, a poor man's New Order.

Wasn't Peppy's where the Psychedelic Furs played? Incredible how my memory has gone to shite

Could be. I didn't go to that one and I remember feeling like I fricked up big time because it was a MAJOR event at the time. I wasn't much of a Furs fan then. I am more so now. That last time they played at the Varsity they were great.

I remember the Bad Brains show at Peppy's in the mid 80s. That was insane. The security apparently had no clue what they were getting into and lost their shite altogether when all the mosh/slam mayhem started up. They were kicking people out for it.