I too grew up with the Zew. Hanging out on the weekends on White Rock Lake. Lawther Drive off Garland Road behind the DeGauyer Estate. 👍 You betcha! Buying grass from ol' Dirty Dave. 🤣 $10 a Lid and 98 FM KZEW on the radio. Throwing frisby and enjoying the summers. Thanks for the great memories and this amazing doc. RIP Bella! Awesome job. 👍✌️🤓
Thank you for this film. I was born and raised in Pleasant Grove, and my dad was a guitar player in those days and he was all in this scene. Playing and visiting clubs all over Dallas late some nights I remember. Back when blues dominated Dallas into the late 80s then by the 90s it was gone.
I lived in Denton, TX from 1975-79 and we went to Dallas at least 4 nights a week to Mother Blues and the other hot clubs and listened to the best music and it was an amazing scene as I was a guitar player. I would go to Doc Holiday's in the Denton Square at UNT and listen to Bugs Henderson and maybe only a handful of people during the week. Nitzinger, Liberation was awesome. I remembered on the Zoo a Disc Jockey, and I may not spell her name incorrectly but it was Barbara Morrelo, who had a sultry voice and with headphones on late at night she was mesmerizing. Always loved Stranglehold & Do You Feel Like We Do that were recorded along with Frank Zappa's Dental Floss… Great times and there will never be another scene like that. I'm 65 and still have 2 KZEW Stickers in my studio that are treasures, lol. So good to see this video and reminisce.
I grew up in Houston until July of '79. Then my Dad dragged us to Wichita Falls. I hated that place, no music to speak of. And yes l learnt to run a two strand thermostat wire to a TV antenna outside the house to pick up KZEW & Q102 outta Dallas-Foat Wuth. On weekends l would drive up to the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma and drive up MT.Scott. There you could also pick up KATT from OK City. They had a desent rock station also. I eventually wound up in Plano in July of '81. We stayed for two years, went back to Houston until the oil recession of "84. Then back in D/FW September'84-Feb.'90. Now you couldn't pay me to live near either of those shitholes! Too many damn people and nothing l'm interested in, in both metropolises.PERIOD.
My family moved to Dallas when I was 15 in ‘78. I’d “Fly the ZOO every morning with Rody & Labella. JD Jon Dillon. Buddy Magazine could be found at any music store and I’d read it cover to cover along with Creem and Circus. When I first moved there, the only place I could get into was an all ages bar in Garland called Mars but eventually made my way into the Agora Ballroom (my favorite) Mother Blues. Remembering Peaches Records and Tapes, Sound Warehouse, Arnold and Morgan Music. Lake Highlands High School, White Rock Lake. Laser show at Richland College on Friday and Saturday. Midnight movies at the Granada. Joe King Carrasco. I can go on and on. Loved living there!
Glad to find this. I found one of my zoo t-shirts the other day and a zoo berry jam album and I almost sent my weed to be tested.I had to wait until the weather conditions were right to record albums through my Marantz 75 watt to my reel to reel that my brother bought back from Germany when home on leave Wish I had a zoo sticker again that way everyone would know I'm COOL
There was an FM Rock station in Dallas before 1973. I was in High School and they piped in FM music to the Eagle's Nest at Richardson High School. There were no commercials. They played album rock…I always thought it was the early stages of kzew, but now you are saying that started in 73 and I graduated in 69…so all of 69 at least there was a non commercial FM rock station going on…
I was just telling my young goddaughter, currently experiencing Austin as a student, this very story about Dallas and how AMAZING the music scene was in the 70's. THANK YOU for putting this out here for us
Great vid on the Dallas scene- growing up in Winnipeg, Canada – I knew that Rush and Trumph were Big there – very bad that the City does not recognise its music history.
Look uhhh, The 13th Floor Elevators are from Austin, TX, … ZZ Top are from Houston andddd that's that. Dallas?? Hell, even the movie Dazed and Confused was filmed in Austin. No offense but Dallas is really only known for three things: TX millionaires (Thank the Dallas TV show for that), Cowboys football and where JFK was assassinated, historically anyway. I mean it is what it is. Yes, the Texas Jam of 1978 at the Cotton Bowl wasssss significant, but… shrugs. Practically every group you talk about in this half-assed documentary was not even from Dallas. Stephen Ray Vaughan? That's it.
Thank you for digitizing this for my generation. Not born yet. I don't know how to listen to music other than my childhood CD players and later, streaming.
yeah no bands play in dallas at all and we're the 8th largest market in the country. its makes me so mad that i have to travel to see good shows now. and the showing up for Roxy music was pretty embarrassing i have to say.
My God, Man…. I was a ZOO Freak. Jon Dillon got his start in radio in my hometown, Mexia, Texas. The first time I heard Dark Side of the Moon was on KZEW, in it's 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒚!!! I've partied with these people. I lived 4 blocks from Mother Blues. I closed that place down at 5AM more than once. I went to free shows in Lee Park. Lived on Travis, 2 blocks from Stevie Ray.John Gasperak lived right across the pool balcony in my complex. And, yes, he always had a camera… (I was afraid for him when John Lennon was murdered. I was afraid he was so despondent, that he might …..) Freddy King, John Nitzinger, The Fabulous Thunderbirds…. This is a snapshot of the life a 20-28 year old effin' rocker…. Thanks!!
On kzew in late 1973 you can hear really diverse music. Weather report mysterious Traveler, John McLaughlin mohavishnu Orchestra one word, Lynyrd Skynyrd I ain't the one, Jesse Colin Young Ridgetop, Michael Oldfield Tubular Bells, The Sensational Alex Harvey band the faith healer, Uriah Heep stealing, Foghat energized. You get the drift, it was great for a 17-year-old kid with a 1964 Ford Galaxie, a Pioneer Craig eight-track with four speakers and $10 a lid dirt weed
This really brought back some old memories; several people in this I have known. I still have some of the original kzew stickers & t-shirt transfers from back in the day, and alot of kzps swag. knus was the FM rock station before kzew, radio was fun then, now the frequencies are used to manipulate & control people like TV does. I remember a very pretty girl that I met got me into the Texas Jam, I lost her in the crowd and never saw her again unfortunately. I remember friends at the palladium that were very nice to me. I was born in Oak Cliff but Pleasant Grove and other parts of Dallas had much better guitarist than oak cliff had then, too much heroin was in oak cliff, I personally think all of the oak cliff guitarist suck. We were lucky to live in era without toxic cell phones & wifi, life was better without them.
Great video, thanks for putting this together. (One thing that brought the Dallas music scene to a screeching halt was when M.A.D.D. was formed in 1980, with their headquarters in Dallas. Laws changed, Happy Hours were discouraged, etc….) so sad that the music/radio industry has changed so much.
I too grew up with the Zew. Hanging out on the weekends on White Rock Lake. Lawther Drive off Garland Road behind the DeGauyer Estate. 👍 You betcha! Buying grass from ol' Dirty Dave. 🤣 $10 a Lid and 98 FM KZEW on the radio. Throwing frisby and enjoying the summers.
Thanks for the great memories and this amazing doc. RIP Bella!
Awesome job. 👍✌️🤓
I am here for the old Dallas accent we never hear any more. Now everyone sounds the same.
I remember the radio station the zoo. they gave out free concert tickets to the Texas jam. In 1978.
Thank you for this film. I was born and raised in Pleasant Grove, and my dad was a guitar player in those days and he was all in this scene. Playing and visiting clubs all over Dallas late some nights I remember. Back when blues dominated Dallas into the late 80s then by the 90s it was gone.
Thank you thank you thank you. It was KZEW that latched onto me. Miss it, miss it.
I lived in Denton, TX from 1975-79 and we went to Dallas at least 4 nights a week to Mother Blues and the other hot clubs and listened to the best music and it was an amazing scene as I was a guitar player. I would go to Doc Holiday's in the Denton Square at UNT and listen to Bugs Henderson and maybe only a handful of people during the week. Nitzinger, Liberation was awesome. I remembered on the Zoo a Disc Jockey, and I may not spell her name incorrectly but it was Barbara Morrelo, who had a sultry voice and with headphones on late at night she was mesmerizing. Always loved Stranglehold & Do You Feel Like We Do that were recorded along with Frank Zappa's Dental Floss… Great times and there will never be another scene like that. I'm 65 and still have 2 KZEW Stickers in my studio that are treasures, lol. So good to see this video and reminisce.
I grew up in Houston until July of '79. Then my Dad dragged us to Wichita Falls. I hated that place, no music to speak of.
And yes l learnt to run a two strand thermostat wire to a TV antenna outside the house to pick up KZEW & Q102 outta Dallas-Foat Wuth.
On weekends l would drive up to the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma and drive up MT.Scott. There you could also pick up KATT from OK City. They had a desent rock station also.
I eventually wound up in Plano in July of '81. We stayed for two years, went back to Houston until the oil recession of "84. Then back in D/FW September'84-Feb.'90.
Now you couldn't pay me to live near either of those shitholes! Too many damn people and nothing l'm interested in, in both metropolises.PERIOD.
My family moved to Dallas when I was 15 in ‘78. I’d “Fly the ZOO every morning with Rody & Labella. JD Jon Dillon. Buddy Magazine could be found at any music store and I’d read it cover to cover along with Creem and Circus. When I first moved there, the only place I could get into was an all ages bar in Garland called Mars but eventually made my way into the Agora Ballroom (my favorite) Mother Blues. Remembering Peaches Records and Tapes, Sound Warehouse, Arnold and Morgan Music. Lake Highlands High School, White Rock Lake. Laser show at Richland College on Friday and Saturday. Midnight movies at the Granada. Joe King Carrasco. I can go on and on. Loved living there!
Glad to find this. I found one of my zoo t-shirts the other day and a zoo berry jam album and I almost sent my weed to be tested.I had to wait until the weather conditions were right to record albums through my Marantz 75 watt to my reel to reel that my brother bought back from Germany when home on leave
Wish I had a zoo sticker again that way everyone would know I'm COOL
Strong work! Took me back to my high school days, listening to KZEW and Q102. Thanks
There was an FM Rock station in Dallas before 1973. I was in High School and they piped in FM music to the Eagle's Nest at Richardson High School. There were no commercials. They played album rock…I always thought it was the early stages of kzew, but now you are saying that started in 73 and I graduated in 69…so all of 69 at least there was a non commercial FM rock station going on…
Once again, great job Kirby. It was a pleasure interviewing you too. Sic'em!
This is brilliant! Thank you so much. I learned a lot about a Dallas I'm too young to appreciate. I was clearly born too late.
Great work !
I was just telling my young goddaughter, currently experiencing Austin as a student, this very story about Dallas and how AMAZING the music scene was in the 70's. THANK YOU for putting this out here for us
Great vid on the Dallas scene- growing up in Winnipeg, Canada – I knew that Rush and Trumph were Big there – very bad that the City does not recognise its music history.
LABELLA & ROADIE RAISED ME THROUGH JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL…
those were the daze… ☮️
IM FROM DALLAS
saw a hundred concerts at all of the small places mentioned here, and grew up in the green seats of Reunion Arena and Starplex !!!
LONG LIVE 98 KZEW
Look uhhh, The 13th Floor Elevators are from Austin, TX, … ZZ Top are from Houston andddd that's that. Dallas?? Hell, even the movie Dazed and Confused was filmed in Austin. No offense but Dallas is really only known for three things: TX millionaires (Thank the Dallas TV show for that), Cowboys football and where JFK was assassinated, historically anyway. I mean it is what it is. Yes, the Texas Jam of 1978 at the Cotton Bowl wasssss significant, but… shrugs. Practically every group you talk about in this half-assed documentary was not even from Dallas. Stephen Ray Vaughan? That's it.
Dallas born raised and still here.
Thank you for digitizing this for my generation. Not born yet. I don't know how to listen to music other than my childhood CD players and later, streaming.
The Binary Star was my second home. Bless James Berry.
yeah no bands play in dallas at all and we're the 8th largest market in the country. its makes me so mad that i have to travel to see good shows now. and the showing up for Roxy music was pretty embarrassing i have to say.
It was such a wonderful time in my life. ❤
My God, Man…. I was a ZOO Freak. Jon Dillon got his start in radio in my hometown, Mexia, Texas. The first time I heard Dark Side of the Moon was on KZEW, in it's 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒚!!! I've partied with these people. I lived 4 blocks from Mother Blues. I closed that place down at 5AM more than once. I went to free shows in Lee Park. Lived on Travis, 2 blocks from Stevie Ray.John Gasperak lived right across the pool balcony in my complex. And, yes, he always had a camera… (I was afraid for him when John Lennon was murdered. I was afraid he was so despondent, that he might …..)
Freddy King, John Nitzinger, The Fabulous Thunderbirds…. This is a snapshot of the life a 20-28 year old effin' rocker…. Thanks!!
Have no ideal what life would of been like without the ZOO. 50ish later it's nice to know it was as awesome as I thought it was.
I think it's because Dallas has always been owned and run by big oil men who were raised to be racist and saw blues as black man's music.
Anyone remember a cover-band called "Shear-Threat"? They were Filipino, I believe. Out of Dallas in the 80's. Best cover band ever, easily.
On kzew in late 1973 you can hear really diverse music. Weather report mysterious Traveler, John McLaughlin mohavishnu Orchestra one word, Lynyrd Skynyrd I ain't the one, Jesse Colin Young Ridgetop, Michael Oldfield Tubular Bells, The Sensational Alex Harvey band the faith healer, Uriah Heep stealing, Foghat energized. You get the drift, it was great for a 17-year-old kid with a 1964 Ford Galaxie, a Pioneer Craig eight-track with four speakers and $10 a lid dirt weed
Kirby, Kim Robbins here, who filmed the vid of the show at longhorn ballroom, where I'm walking with Willie 😎 guess it was Stony???
This really brought back some old memories; several people in this I have known. I still have some of the original kzew stickers & t-shirt transfers from back in the day, and alot of kzps swag. knus was the FM rock station before kzew, radio was fun then, now the frequencies are used to manipulate & control people like TV does. I remember a very pretty girl that I met got me into the Texas Jam, I lost her in the crowd and never saw her again unfortunately. I remember friends at the palladium that were very nice to me. I was born in Oak Cliff but Pleasant Grove and other parts of Dallas had much better guitarist than oak cliff had then, too much heroin was in oak cliff, I personally think all of the oak cliff guitarist suck. We were lucky to live in era without toxic cell phones & wifi, life was better without them.
I lived (Lower Greenville Ave).and worked as a Musician in Dallas in the 70's and 80's
'nuff said'
Anyone remember KFMK? Jimmy Rabbit pulled double duty on KLIF as well
Bravo !
Great video, thanks for putting this together. (One thing that brought the Dallas music scene to a screeching halt was when M.A.D.D. was formed in 1980, with their headquarters in Dallas. Laws changed, Happy Hours were discouraged, etc….) so sad that the music/radio industry has changed so much.