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Austin Roots

Austin Roots

著者： Jason Mellard Renee O'Connor and TSSI
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In March 2020, when the world shut down, Eddie Wilson compiled an eclectic list of Austin's artists, authors, movers, and shakers who defined the city's cultural scene in the sixties, seventies, and eighties. In their words, we thread together what made the city they called home, a world renown destination for music, art, and food. Listen to Eddie (Threadgill's proprietor and author of Armadillo World Headquarters), historian Jason Mellard, and our esteemed friends connect on a nostalgic journey down memory lane, with stories of food, music, politics, measuring the true character of Austin, Texas. Music by Jake Andrews Music Content Warning: adult themes Host, Eddie Wilson - Armadillo World Headquarters founder @Threadgills Host, Dr. Jason Mellard - Cultural historian @jasondeanmellard Editor, Renee O'Connor Music Mixing, Matt Carlson @axemanguitar Producer, Renee O'Connor @realreneeoconnor Producer, Sandra Wilson @sandrawilson709 Executive Producer, TSSI Music by Jake Andrews Music @jakeandrewsmusic Production assistant, Miles Muir @miles_muir Production consultant, Katey Psencik©AUSTIN ROOTS 2026 世界 社会科学
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  • "The 1960's Underground" with Alice Embree and Thorne Dreyer

    "The 1960's Underground" with Alice Embree and Thorne Dreyer
    2026/07/01
    "The 1960's Underground" with Alice Embree and Thorne Dreyer "And so to me, one of the stories is to look back at that time and go, "Look, there was a lot of crossover that younger people don't know about," right? And when I tell people about it, they're like, "Oh, I had no idea." … These narratives tend to live in textbooks and not come from people's lives, it seems like sometimes… if you pay attention to how people experience the times they lived through, it looks much different than the stories that get told much later on." (Alice Embree) In this episode, co-hosts Dr. Jason Mellard and Eddie Wilson, sit down with two of Austin's most enduring activist voices: Thorne Dreyer and Alice Embree, co-founders of The Rag, the sixth underground newspaper in the United States and one of the longest-running, publishing 377 issues from 1966 to 1977. Together they trace the arc of Austin's radical counterculture, from the origins of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to the birth of a national movement. Content Warning: adult themes Content created during the global pandemic, in the room, and on Zoom. Chapters: 01:00 - Thorne's background: Houston upbringing, artistic family, acting in New York, arriving in Austin 02:10 - Alice's background: growing up in Austin during Jim Crow; Austin's civil rights battles on campus with segregated dorms, segregated football, and the fight to change both 02:55 - Kennedy assassination as a radicalizing moment; Lyndon Johnson's daughter in a segregated dorm; UT's delay tactics 04:10 - Frank Erwin and the Board of Regents; Thorne placed on disciplinary probation in 1967 04:25 - The founding of The Rag (October 1966); John Economidy's right-wing takeover of The Daily Texan 05:45 - "SDS": Students for a Democratic Society's trip to Haight & Ashbury pre-Summer of Love; overlap between Rag staff and SDS 06:15 - The Rag's 11-year run; 377 issues available on JSTOR via Independent Voices 07:33 - Reading of Thorne's October 1966 letter announcing The Rag to the underground press 12:05 - "Hippies and politicos merge": Austin's unusual counterculture-political fusion explained 13:25 - The "Prairie Power" movement inside SDS and why Austin's chapter stood apart from its East Coast counterparts 14:40 - Drugs: Austin as a national hub for peyote distribution; the 1963 Playboy "Assassination Issue" on psychedelics 16:45 - Jim Franklin stirring the peyote kettle outside Lockhart; the sheriff encounter 17:32 - Peyote Orange Juliuses; Dave Richards and Sam Houston Clinton exploit the legislative misspelling 19:00 - Surveillance of New Left activists and hippies; solidarity across counterculture and politics 19:25 - Texas SDS members standing out at national conferences; hostile state environment breeding unity 20:30 - Eddie Wilson and Shiva's Headband; carrying the band's pot to an East Texas benefit 21:40 - Shiva's Headband and the Conqueroo as politically active bands; doing benefits constantly 22:22 - The Armadillo and Vietnam Veterans Against the War; beer garden fundraisers 23:03 - United Farm Workers march; Economy Furniture strike; November 1972 Armadillo benefit with Greasy Wheels, Steve Fromholz, Willie Nelson, Teatro Chicano 25:25 - Eddie on the Armadillo as "a giant Petri dish"; bikers, ballet, grandmothers 25:45 - Stanley Hall run off from Austin Ballet Theater for being gay; moves dance classes to the Armadillo 26:25 - The UT folk singing club as a gateway to campus political culture; Janis Joplin performed there 27:00 - Austin's export to San Francisco: Chet Helms, the Avalon, Janis, 13th Floor Elevators, Doug Sahm, Rip-Off Press, San Francisco Oracle 29:50 - The YMCA building as nerve center: two locations, Frank Wright, Chris Cunningham as directors 30:30 - Alan Pogue: Vietnam vet photographer who essentially lived in his darkroom at the Y 30:55 - Women of The Rag set up birth control and abortion counseling hotlines within the office 31:15 - Those women persuaded Sarah Weddington to take the Roe v. Wade case 32:00 - The Rag ahead of the underground press on women's issues; papers elsewhere split apart (Berkeley Barb, Rat) 32:55 - Women bringing new content; collective leadership model enabling more women's involvement 33:10 - Alice's time in New York: NACLA, cross-fertilization with The Rat; Jeff Shero and the women's takeover of The Rat 34:00 - Collective editorial model at The Rag, Space City, and Liberation News Service 36:00 - Underground papers' lack of financial sustainability; why the underground press died; The Rag's 11-year run as exceptional 38:00 - The obligation to pass these stories to younger generations Follow us on Instagram and on Facebook, at @Threadgills AND Check out our store here and collect our gear: https://Threadgills.com/merch Guest: Thorne Dreyer and Alice Embree, founders of The Rag, Austin's influential underground newspaper; prominent figures in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Their ongoing work: The Rag Blog, Rag Radio...
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    46 分
  • "Developing Austin" with Perry Lorenz

    "Developing Austin" with Perry Lorenz
    2026/06/24

    "Developing Austin" with Perry Lorenz

    "We all got liberal arts degrees, and a whole lot of my friends are, you know, are casualties in one way or another. Either, either drug casualties or lifestyle casualties, and never quite made it through school, although that's the reason that they came to Austin. And again, it was so inexpensive… People weren't having to work three jobs to figure out how to pay for their school. Student debt, what the hell is student debt? I mean, nobody I knew graduated with student debt. So it was just a completely different scene… and it was just a liberal bastion." (Perry Lorenz)

    Perry Lorenz has been at the center of Austin's transformation for nearly six decades, from printing underground comics in San Francisco, to developing some of downtown Austin's most iconic real estate. In this conversation with co-hosts, Eddie Wilson and Dr. Jason Mellard, Perry traces his unlikely journey from University of Texas student and counterculture participant, to one of the city's most consequential developers, reflecting on what Austin gained and lost along the way.

    Content Warning: adult themes
    Content created during the global pandemic, in the room, and on Zoom.

    Chapters:
    01:30 - Coming to Austin in 1966; feeling "born" in Austin
    02:00 - UT culture: liberal arts, no fraternities, no business school
    02:43 - Visiting San Francisco, discovering the underground comix scene
    03:05 - Joining the Ripoff Press as production manager
    05:00 - Returning to Austin; entering the car business
    05:30 - Downtown Austin in the late '70s: ignored, owner-financed, no banks
    08:40 - The true story of the Rainey Street rezoning
    10:00 - The shift from planned high-rises to a bar district; owners ultimately profiting
    11:18 - Soap Creek Saloon's opening night bartender, tequila Wednesdays
    13:00 - George Majeski making the worst of enemies get along
    14:00 - Appearing in Texas Chainsaw Massacre; cooking on opening night at Pecan Street Cafe
    15:50 - The Independent ("Jenga Tower")
    16:15 - The Nocona at 9th & Lamar with Robert Barnstone
    17:00 - Ann Richards' support; proving the downtown condo market
    18:03 - East Austin condo development; the railroad land; Larry Warshaw
    21:25 - UT in the '60s & '70s: open admissions, cheap tuition, student culture
    23:10 - Cambodia protests; marching on the Capitol; Austin's liberal identity
    24:00 - Working with Dave Moriarty in San Francisco; the warehouse culture with Jerry Garcia and Angela Davis
    25:00 - Working alongside Gilbert Shelton, printing the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
    26:00 - Printing for Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Dave Sheridan
    28:08 - The Convention Center relocation story: Suzanne Cannon's idea; Larry Speck's scoring matrix; convincing the city council.
    31:15 - West 33rd Street: hippie houses, Joe Long, motorcycles indoors
    32:50 - Reflections on Austin's change: "it was better 18 months before you got here"; history as ongoing

    Follow us on Instagram and on Facebook, at @Threadgills

    AND

    Check out our store here and collect our gear: https://Threadgills.com/merch

    Guest: Perry Lorenz - Principal of Constructive Ventures, participant in early underground comix movement, community commissioner, and decades-long figure in Austin downtown development.

    Production Team:
    Host, Eddie Wilson - Armadillo World Headquarters founder @Threadgills
    Host, Dr. Jason Mellard - Cultural historian @jasondeanmellard
    Editor, Renee O'Connor
    Music Mixing, Matt Carlson @axemanguitar
    Producer, Renee O'Connor @realreneeoconnor
    Producer, Sandra Wilson @sandrawilson709
    Executive Producer, TSSI
    Music by Jake Andrews Music @jakeandrewsmusic
    Production assistant, Miles Muir @miles_muir
    Production consultant, Katey Psencik
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    35 分
  • "Outstanding Stories in the Criminal Legal System" with Dick Deguerin

    "Outstanding Stories in the Criminal Legal System" with Dick Deguerin
    2026/06/17

    "Outstanding Stories in the Criminal Legal System" with Dick DeGuerin

    "Well, I accept a lot of cases. Basically, my criteria is something that needs to be challenging. So you get some tough cases that way, and if you get the reputation for trying tough cases, people come to you. Growing up, I was younger than all my classmates…and I was smaller. But what I learned was the law and the rules of evidence…great equalizer…In the hands of someone that knows the law, you're as big as anybody in the courtroom." (Dick DeGuerin)

    This episode of Austin Roots features Dick DeGuerin, a legendary Houston-based criminal defense attorney with deep Austin roots. Raised in the city and educated at UT Law, Dick shares wide-ranging stories spanning his college days, legal career, famous cases, and lifelong love of Texas music. The conversation begins with memories of 1960s Austin, fraternity life, underground rock and roll radio (KTXN), the Ranger humor magazine, and colorful campus characters like Frank Irwin and "Daddyo" (Bill Whitliff). Dick recalls early encounters with Kinky Friedman and the Terrytown scene. The discussion shifts to his legal career: his time at the Harris County DA's office, then 12 years under legendary attorney Percy Foreman, who mentored him through high-stakes criminal cases. Dick explains his philosophy of taking on seemingly unwinnable cases, as exemplified by the Robert Durst trial in Galveston, and his representation of Billy Joe Shaver. A standout segment covers his direct involvement in the 1993 Waco siege, where he entered the Branch Davidian compound multiple times as David Koresh's attorney, offering a rare ground-level perspective on the standoff and ATF's use of force. Throughout, Dick weaves in his passion for Texas music, playing ukulele and guitar since childhood, friendships with Guy Clark, Terry Allen, Billy Joe Shaver, and Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and his New Year's gatherings in Marfa.

    Content Warning: adult themes
    Content created during the global pandemic, in the room, and on Zoom.

    Chapters:
    01:04 - University of Texas in the '60s: Fraternity life, booking bands, Dave McNeely
    01:47 - Underground rock and roll radio: KTXN
    02:10 - Lavada Durst Jr. and the fraternity party scene
    06:43 - A high school epiphany, Tarrytown, and a close call with a plainclothes cop
    10:01 - Percy Foreman: mentorship and the DA's office
    10:21 - Learning from Percy: trying capital cases in his early 30s
    15:51 - Taking "unwinnable" cases; how the Robert Durst trial in Galveston proved the strategy
    18:16 - Representing Billy Joe Shaver and quoting his lyrics in closing argument
    20:38 - Guy Clark, black diamond strings, and a life in Texas music
    24:28 - The Armadillo World Headquarters: Dick's memories of Eddie and the scene
    26:25 - Waco & the Branch Davidians: the call that started it all
    26:30 - Inside the compound: a firsthand account

    Follow us on Instagram and on Facebook, at @Threadgills

    AND

    Check out our store here and collect our gear: https://Threadgills.com/merch

    Guest List: Dick DeGuerin, one of the most storied criminal defense attorneys in Texas history.

    Production Team:
    Host, Eddie Wilson - Armadillo World Headquarters founder @Threadgills
    Host, Dr. Jason Mellard - Cultural historian @jasondeanmellard
    Editor, Renee O'Connor
    Music Mixing, Matt Carlson @axemanguitar
    Producer, Renee O'Connor @realreneeoconnor
    Producer, Sandra Wilson @sandrawilson709
    Executive Producer, TSSI
    Music by Jake Andrews Music @jakeandrewsmusic
    Production assistant, Miles Muir @miles_muir
    Production consultant, Katey Psencik
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    36 分
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