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    Irusan
    14 years 3 months ago
    Panther Hall
    This was a very funky dance hall in Ft.Worth, Texas. The panther, i.e. mountain lion, is an emblem of Ft. Worth because of an early story of this creature being found sleeping on the main street. I went here with my friend and band-mate Terry. There were tables set up for the country music shows, when I guess beer was served. Nothing was available this night, and we were pretty much by ourselves at one of the long tables. I remember a local Texas band opened the show. I thought they were pretty good, but a little unimaginative, playing only blues covers. They did benefit from having Nicky Hopkins sit in on piano. Let's see, their name was...hmm...something like ZigZag Topps - Z.Z. Top - that was it. I remember nothing of Quicksilver playing. They may have played after the Dead, and we left early, or we wandered outside while they played. I do remember the Dead though, on a low stage, very small crowd, the closest I've been to them except for the time I shook hands with Bob and Phil (also in Ft. Worth at TCU). It was like a high-school dance. I remember Pig doing an excellent "Hard to Handle". It was a great show, but I have trouble remembering the details - those were the days! I know I was impressed, because I wrote a paper about it in Music class and got an A+!
  • Red Brangus
    2 years 3 months ago
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    It was indeed a funky country venue -- there was a live TV broadcast from there on Saturday nights called "Cowtown Jamboree". (Cowtown being another Ft. Worth nickname.) Willie Nelson recorded a live album there back when he wore a suit and tie and had his hair slicked back. This would have been a mid-week venue rental for the operators, who were probably horrified at the clientele this show attracted.

    Quicksilver did indeed play after ZZ Top and before the Dead. Later, during the Dead's set, Dino Valenti and some ofthe other Quicksilver guys did some good-natured razzing from a little catwalk balcony above the stage that carried a big sign that said "The Nation's Number 1 Country Ballroom".

    Funny, I was also rather unimpressed with ZZ Top, who had only been playing in that configuration for a week or two at that point. But a guy who was with us, a recent transplant from California who had never really heard Southern rock I guess, was completely knocked out by them and raved about them all the way home.

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Submitted by Irusan on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 12:33

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This was a very funky dance hall in Ft.Worth, Texas. The panther, i.e. mountain lion, is an emblem of Ft. Worth because of an early story of this creature being found sleeping on the main street. I went here with my friend and band-mate Terry. There were tables set up for the country music shows, when I guess beer was served. Nothing was available this night, and we were pretty much by ourselves at one of the long tables. I remember a local Texas band opened the show. I thought they were pretty good, but a little unimaginative, playing only blues covers. They did benefit from having Nicky Hopkins sit in on piano. Let's see, their name was...hmm...something like ZigZag Topps - Z.Z. Top - that was it. I remember nothing of Quicksilver playing. They may have played after the Dead, and we left early, or we wandered outside while they played. I do remember the Dead though, on a low stage, very small crowd, the closest I've been to them except for the time I shook hands with Bob and Phil (also in Ft. Worth at TCU). It was like a high-school dance. I remember Pig doing an excellent "Hard to Handle". It was a great show, but I have trouble remembering the details - those were the days! I know I was impressed, because I wrote a paper about it in Music class and got an A+!
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Submitted by Red Brangus on Tue, 08/02/2022 - 13:43

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It was indeed a funky country venue -- there was a live TV broadcast from there on Saturday nights called "Cowtown Jamboree". (Cowtown being another Ft. Worth nickname.) Willie Nelson recorded a live album there back when he wore a suit and tie and had his hair slicked back. This would have been a mid-week venue rental for the operators, who were probably horrified at the clientele this show attracted.

Quicksilver did indeed play after ZZ Top and before the Dead. Later, during the Dead's set, Dino Valenti and some ofthe other Quicksilver guys did some good-natured razzing from a little catwalk balcony above the stage that carried a big sign that said "The Nation's Number 1 Country Ballroom".

Funny, I was also rather unimpressed with ZZ Top, who had only been playing in that configuration for a week or two at that point. But a guy who was with us, a recent transplant from California who had never really heard Southern rock I guess, was completely knocked out by them and raved about them all the way home.

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