GREG BEETS
Artist: Elvis Presley
Band: The Beatles
Composer: Igor Stravinsky/George Gershwin
Album: Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Song: “This Land Is Your Land,” Woody Guthrie
Live Show: James Brown, The Olympia, Paris, 1971
Musical Event: Woodstock, 1969/Live Aid, 1985
CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Artist: Bono
Band: Nirvana
Composer: Cole Porter
Album: Run-DMC, Raising Hell
Song: “Baby Got Back,” Sir Mix-a-Lot
Live Show: Meaty Cheesy Boys, 1999 Billboard Music Awards
Musical Event: Teenage Neanderthals interpreting Limp Bizkit’s “stick it up your … yeah!” as an invitation to rape Woodstock ’99.
RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Artist: Duke Ellington
Band: Rolling Stones
Composer: Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn /George & Ira Gershwin
Album: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Song: “Feel-like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” Country Joe & the Fish
Live Show: The Clash, S.F. Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1982
Musical Event: The birth of jazz.
CHRISTOPHER HESS
Artist: Hank Williams
Band: Velvet Underground
Composer: Duke Ellington
Album: Pixies, Surfer Rosa
Song: “Blue Train,” John Coltrane
Live Show: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jawbox, Poster Children, Emo’s, Austin, 1994
Musical Event: Electric Lounge’s Closing Weekend, Austin, 1999
ANDY LANGER
Artist: Bob Dylan
Band: Rolling Stones
Composer: Willie Nelson
Album: Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction
Song: “Johnny B. Goode,” Chuck Berry
Live Show: The Who, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cotton Bowl, Dallas, 1990
Musical Event: Willie Nelson’s 60th Birthday Party, Austin City Limits, 1992
DAVID LYNCH
Artist: Bob Marley
Band: Beatles
Composer: Duke Ellington
Album: Hamdulillah, Music from the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music
Song: “Love Supreme,” John Coltrane
Live Show: Funky Meters, Tipitinas, New Orleans, 1996
Musical Event: amplification/digitization
MARGARET MOSER
Artist: Robert Johnson
Band: Rolling Stones
Composer: Duke Ellington
Album: Meet the Beatles
Song: “Good Rockin’ Tonight,” Wynonie Harris
Live Show: John Cale, Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, April 17, 1979
Musical Event: Woodstock
JERRY RENSHAW
Artist: Howlin’ Wolf
Band: (pre-’69) Rolling Stones
Composer: John Fogerty
Album: The Clash
Song: “Heartbreak Hotel,” Elvis Presley
Live Show: The Blasters, Carbondale, Illinois, l984
Musical Event: Any Grand Ole Opry, l955
JAY TRACHTENBERG
Artist: Jerry Garcia
Band: Grateful Dead/Clifton Chenier
Composer: Bob Dylan/Duke Ellington
Album: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Song: “Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan
Live Show: Grateful Dead, Winterland, San Francisco, May, 1971
Musical Event: Vietnam War
This article appears in 1999.