Punk historian Tim Stegall traces the story of Austin’s punk scene to Raul’s, a historic Tejano bar on the Drag.
"It Had About 10 Names Since 1974"
"I like all these bands," Bangs added, though it might be hard to tell with his ungenerous, off-base assertion that these bands aped JohnnyJoeyDeeDeeTommy. But we are jumping ahead of ourselves here. "The stage was there, in front of the window, from where that pool table was to the wall," Gomez continues. Indicating where we are standing, he says,"This is where you would have to step up. The bar is pretty much in the same place. I don't think ours was that long."
“Raul’s … serves a function roughly analogous to early CBGB as being the locus of Austin punk/New Wave hap’nin’s.”Gomez lived a few blocks from lifelong friend Joseph Gonzales, and stayed on the Eastside even after marrying and pursuing a career in the restaurant business. A 1960 photograph by Neal Douglass depicts 2-J Hamburgers with a large model of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders emerging from its roof, holding a sign reading"Colonel Sanders Recipe.
"I would go in there when Raul and those guys bought the joint, just to hear the Mexican bands," he says."I heard it one night on the Drag, and I thought, 'I can't believe I'm hearing this! Conjunto music! I gotta go!' It's music of my youth, and it's happy music, even if you're singing about revolution."
Precious little is known about them these days."Austin, Texas band formed by Billy Maddox," reads theirentry, which also lists their membership: Maddox, normally a drummer, on guitar and vocals; Stevie Wilson, drums; Tony Dukes, bass; and one Eric Johnson on guitar. Others remember them as a threepiece: Maddox, Wilson, and future local bass guitar all-star Glenn Fukunaga. The former lineup is listed on Discogs for an obscure 45 released in 1977 on E.G.
"They were great musicians, and they were cool," says Valentine."They saw the same things other people saw in punk. They liked the energy, so they started Project Terror. It wasn't by any means a traditional or classic punk band, but they wanted the freedom to do something outside of what they had been doing. Bill played drums with Eric Johnson in the Electromagnets. In Project Terror, Bill played guitar.
Marilyn Dean and Kathy Valentine of the Violators in 1978, photographed by their East Riverside roommate Lois Richwine She recalls renditions of Iggy and the Stooges'"Shake Appeal," the Pistols'"Sub-Mission," Mott the Hoople's"Death May Be Your Santa Claus," and"'Let's Spend the Night Together'fast, like 90 mph." Then Muñoz delivered a righteous, set-ending reading of"Search and Destroy" before picking himself up from the pools of spilled beer and disconnecting Marshall 4x12 cabinets.
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