...18 years ago...

Up at noon, coffee, shower, laze around. We can play in San Antonio after all - with Glass Eye's friends 'Billy Zygote and the Love Bubbles'! - At Tacoland - a Mexican biker bar. We decide to play - just to play.

Great band name. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into.

Drive down and meet Cathy and Jamie - nice girls. They take us to the "club". Unload - scary. I decide to make the best of it and order a beer. An old woman talks to me. She's very drunk and tells me dirty jokes. Ram - the bar owner introduces himself - cool guy. The crowd was at most 30-40 people all night - DRUNK OFF THEIR BUTTS!

The old woman was wearing a cowgirl outfit and is the one immortalized in the lines:

There's a girl with dirty hair
She's got her dress up in the air
She tells a lot of jokes
Hell, she's got a lot to share

She was up on the pool table at one point dancing and flipping her skirt up...

Opening band was the Tacoland punk rock band - cool songs. 'BZ and the Love Bubbles' played - Jamie on drums - cute girl. 70's covers - the greatest, funniest stuff. Macho Man, In the Navy, YMCA, Harper Valley PTA, Knock Three Times, Dancing Queen etc. We kept getting free beers - everybody was trashed. We played a great set with borrowed cowboy hats from BZ the Love Bubbles. Lotsa beer. Ram passed whiskey around. We played "Rainy Day Women" - everybody sang.

I don't remember the opening band. Hey - 'Billy Zygote and the Love Bubbles' were doing the 70's stuff before anyone - remember this is only 86! The Beer was flowing and we all had a great time. I think that we had a row of empty bottles that went across the back of the stage and across our equipment by the end of the set.

Pack up. Ram gave me the Tacoland shirt - off his back! Go to Tacocabana for Mexican food with other bands, drive home to Austin. To bed 5AM.

This would have to be on my top 10 list of shows. I still have the shirt to prove it! This night was so great it wound up being in a song:

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TACOLAND
There's a place
In San Antone
Where I can go
And not feel alone!

Tacoland
It's a panacea
Tacoland
They're always glad to see ya

You'll understand
When you go
On
Down to Tacoland

When I feel
My world is lost
I go to Tacoland
And I get really tossed!

I wish my band would always pla-a-ay
Tacoland, I want to sta-a-ay

You'll understand
When you go
On
Down to Tacoland

There's a girl with dirty hair
She's got her dress up in the air
She tells a lot of jokes
Hell, she's got a lot to share

Tacoland
We ate a lot of figs
They passed around a bottle
And we took a lot of swigs

It's nature's plan
To go
On
Down to Tacoland

Tacoland - Just three quarters of a mile past the Rockwood exit in beautiful downtown San Antonio, Texas!
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Actually it's here. Tell Ram and the gang the Dead Milkmen sent you! And Heavy on the Gravy!