Monks Jazz Club
Now's the Time to Own Up
RECEIVED Tue., Aug. 15, 2017
Dear Editor,
First, congratulations to Louis Black for giving all of us a great rag for so very long, for his lifetime contribution to the hip side of the city, the insider's guide to culture, news, and opinion around town. Not to mention the definitive guide to all the music. I started reading the Chronicle when I was in college in the mid-Eighties, and I couldn't get a Chronicle soon enough each week, cast about as I was over in College Station for several years. Somehow, the one indie record store over there managed to procure copies.
That said, before Louis fully retires ["Louis Black Announces Chronicle Retirement," News, Aug. 8] I would like to call him out on something, seeing how as "fake news" is now an established narrative. Years ago he claimed, along with other cohorts, to have attended the January 8, 1978, concert of the Sex Pistols in San Antonio, one of only seven precious dates they made in the U.S. Hmmm. It just seems perfectly suspicious that the founder of the hippest rag in the Southwest was somehow granted a lifetime badge of coolness and enlightenment by having attended such a singular event. But anyone can SAY they were there. If Louis wasn't, then now is the time to own up. The great legacy of the Chronicle will remain intact, regardless, and Louis will be even more respected riding into the sunset.
First, congratulations to Louis Black for giving all of us a great rag for so very long, for his lifetime contribution to the hip side of the city, the insider's guide to culture, news, and opinion around town. Not to mention the definitive guide to all the music. I started reading the Chronicle when I was in college in the mid-Eighties, and I couldn't get a Chronicle soon enough each week, cast about as I was over in College Station for several years. Somehow, the one indie record store over there managed to procure copies.
That said, before Louis fully retires ["Louis Black Announces Chronicle Retirement," News, Aug. 8] I would like to call him out on something, seeing how as "fake news" is now an established narrative. Years ago he claimed, along with other cohorts, to have attended the January 8, 1978, concert of the Sex Pistols in San Antonio, one of only seven precious dates they made in the U.S. Hmmm. It just seems perfectly suspicious that the founder of the hippest rag in the Southwest was somehow granted a lifetime badge of coolness and enlightenment by having attended such a singular event. But anyone can SAY they were there. If Louis wasn't, then now is the time to own up. The great legacy of the Chronicle will remain intact, regardless, and Louis will be even more respected riding into the sunset.
Regards,
Guff Robinson
Guff Robinson
[Louis Black responds: On January 8, 1978, first I attended the marriage of James "Cowboy" Cooper, then manager of Inner Sanctum Records, at the original Soap Creek Saloon where Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys played. Then I joined Waterloo owner John Kunz and Kathy Marcus to drive to San Antonio to Randy's Rodeo where we saw the Sex Pistols. It remains one of the most extraordinary shows I've ever seen, transcending music in favor of a seminal cultural experience.
A couple of nights later, Austin Chronicle publisher Nick Barbaro saw the Sex Pistols at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas.]
A couple of nights later, Austin Chronicle publisher Nick Barbaro saw the Sex Pistols at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas.]
