Making Biscuit

Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7

"...South Austin home, the one with the surrealist landscaping, Bachman-Turner Overdrive said it best: "You ain't seen nothing yet."..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Biscuit Was Not a Drinker

"...What sad news about the death of our beloved Randy "Biscuit" Turner [“Making Biscuit,” Music, Aug. 19]. In your..."

Aug. 24, 2005 Postmarks

Honoring and Remembering Biscuit

"...Editor, Will there be formal or informal get-togethers for Biscuit [“Making Biscuit,” Music, Aug. 19]? Although I have not..."

Aug. 22, 2005 Postmarks

Biscuit, We Love You!

"...years ago was in the middle of their set Biscuit busted into a poem about boat people. I thought..."

Aug. 24, 2005 Postmarks

Biscuit Touched Many Lives

"...Dear Editor, Randy "Biscuit" Turner had a huge influence on my life..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Postmarks

Uncle Biscuit

"...thanks for the beautifully written articles about my Uncle Randy [“Biscuit” Turner] [“Making Biscuit,” Music, Aug. 19 and “True..."

Aug. 30, 2005 Postmarks

Missing Biscuit

"...Hello, I sure am bummed out that Randy "Biscuit" Turner died [“Making Biscuit,” Music, Aug. 19]. I..."

Aug. 24, 2005 Postmarks

Biscuit Is Missed

"...Dear Editor, RIP, Randy “Biscuit” Turner. I was so thrilled to see you..."

Aug. 22, 2005 Postmarks

'Biscuit: A Retrospective'

Gallery Lombardi’s posthumous exhibition of 150 collages by local punk rock renaissance darling Randy Turner is a friendly walk through the brain of Biscuit

"...Elvis, Queen of the Vegas Strip, by Randall J. "Biscuit" Turner, just one of the more than 150 collages..."

March 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Shame on Biscuit

"...Dear Editor, I was sad to hear about Randy Turner's passing until I was told by several classmates..."

Aug. 30, 2005 Postmarks

True Today

Randy 'Biscuit' Turner's final interview

"...People assume I'd known Randy "Biscuit" Turner for years, that we'd been friends since..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

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Our readers talk back.

"...Biscuit Touched Us AllDear Editor,..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Column

TCB

Austin remembers Randy 'Biscuit' Turner, whose sudden death shocks and saddens the city

"...Bye Bye, Biscuit The party went on as planned, but minus the..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers

We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician

"...the printer, Big Boys frontman and cover story subject Randy "Biscuit" Turner was found dead at his home by..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...of that original generation of 'Austin weird' that includes Biscuit, Uranium Savages, and Jim Franklin, people who made a..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Cargo Cult/Texas Biscuit Bombs

"...Cargo Cult/Texas Biscuit Bombs(Modern City Records)..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Platters

Live shot

"...was the perfect kick in the crotch. The Texas Biscuit Bombs, featuring Randy "Biscuit" Turner of Austin's legendary Big..."

July 29, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

After a Fashion

Stephen remembers Biscuit and tells you where to get a great hair cut for a great cause

"...BISCUIT I returned to Austin from San Francisco in 1980..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Your Name Here

Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it

"...the former fun house of Big Boys' late provocateur, Randy "Biscuit" Turner, offered a home playscape of gleaned junk-art..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

C Sick

Eight years after the Chronicle's initial look in hepatitis C, Austin's music community is both better and worse

"...Randy "Biscuit" Turner mopped the sweat from his forehead and..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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Our readers talk back.

"...Richard WheelusUncle BiscuitDear Editor,..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Column

I Said That, Volume 1: The Dicks and Mutant Rocker: The Art of Randy "Biscuit" Turner, Volume 1

by Gary Floyd; edited by David Ensminger

"...own personal life changing." Meaning that as Floyd and Randy "Biscuit" Turner, respective frontmen for the genre's two most..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Outraged at the 'Chronicle'

"...Dear Editor, I'm a friend of Randy "Biscuit" Turner and his family. How dare Margaret Moser..."

Nov. 29, 2006 Postmarks

Page Two

There is no other place in the country, outside of New York and L.A., with the same quality and quantity of filmmaking and filmmakers as Austin

"...Rodriguez; a Raul's tribute featuring Larry Seaman, Stephen Marsh, Randy "Biscuit" Turner, Jesse Sublett, Jon Dee Graham, Randy Franklin,..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Get Me Back to Austin

Five reasons to the celebrate the 2003-04 Austin Music Awards

"...Terminal Mind's Stephen Marsh; Standing Waves' Larry Seaman & Randy Franklin; Terri Lord of the Jitters; forever Skunks Jesse..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two

Here comes SXSW. And, surprisingly, the Young Conservatives of Texas still don't like us.

"...myth that was Raul's, with Larry Seaman, Stephen Marsh, Randy "Biscuit" Turner, Jesse Sublett, Jon Dee Graham, Randy Franklin,..."

March 5, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

Austin Film Commission no more

"...Austin punk godfather, artist, actor, and all-around renaissance scenester Randy "Biscuit-- Turner will present a two-session workshop on "Propping..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Young, Loud, and Cheap

The Skunks were a band. A loud one.

"...Big Boys and Dicks, they were there first. Actually, Randy "Biscuit" Turner, vocalist for the Big Boys, doesn't recall..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Swine King Gargantuan Fantasy Mall (Eco-Disaster)

Texas Platters

"...Mall (Eco-Disaster) Time has been kind to the recordings Randy "Biscuit" Turner has been party to. Lost master tapes..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Playback

SXSW news and carryings-on

"...• Randy "Biscuit" Turner, singer of local punk legends the Big..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

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