Bullets Over Broadway
• Tickets for the Rolling Stones‘ Oct. 22 show at Zilker Park go on sale Saturday, Aug. 19, 10am. But it’ll cost ya: General admission tickets are $95, with student tickets at $75. In other Stones-related news, Ruta Maya presents Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out With Sticky Fingers this Saturday, a Stones hoot night with Zykos, the Arm, Lomita, Household Names, King Tears, and more, plus old Stones footage. See Music Recommended, p.92, for more information.
• Arthur Lee of seminal L.A. psych band Love died Aug. 3 in his hometown of Memphis after a long battle with leukemia. The explosive frontman, kindred spirits with the late Syd Barrett and Austin’s Roky Erickson, made history with 1967’s Forever Changes and spent the majority of his life making music with both Love and solo. From 2002-2005, Lee toured successfully with a reunited Love.
• San Antonio tenor sax player Rocky Morales of West Side Horns and Doug Sahm‘s Sir Douglas Quintet passed away last Wednesday of cancer. “Of all the musicians I’ve met in Texas, Rocky was the heaviest,” Neil Young staffer Bill Bentley relates. “The things I saw him do during the Seventies with Doug are unforgettable. He was also the craziest of them all – lived on Mad Dog 20/20 and a hamburger he’d keep in his pocket for a week until it was time to take a bite. When he played tenor, it was like watching God onstage. What a man.”
This article appears in August 11 • 2006.