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Headliners revealed for Austin City Limits’ studio gala
The top tickets for the seated dinner on the studio floor are already sold out. Still for sale are dinner-by-the-bite-plus-performance tickets at $500, and performance-only tickets in the balcony at $150. Following the performance, the entire theater will open up for a reception with snacks and a chance to tour every seat in the surprisingly intimate house. Get more information at KLRU.org.
The hotel itself opens to the public on Thursday.
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By Shobiz
December 8, 2010 8:56 AM | Link to this
Very dispappointed in the choice of entertainment for the ACL Gala. No offense to Steve MIller and the great songs he's released, but this is a band that is now booked for corporate parties, cruise ships and wealthy bar mitzvahs. Steve Miller would've been a great booking a few months down the road for the venue. But, as the Opening Night's main act.......Not impressed.
By Michael Barnes
December 7, 2010 8:58 PM | Link to this
I can entirely understand disagreements with the bands booked, but as for the ticket price, let's not forget this is a fundraiser for KLRU, our nonprofit public TV station. Nobody is getting rich off this. If you don't want to support KLRU in this way, you can catch these same musical acts a million different ways, in Carolyn's case, pretty often in Austin. It looks to be a special evening, however. If you want to share in the historic moment, sign up. If not, nobody is going to begrudge you. New Dallas? No. Old Armadillo? No. Austin, yes.
By Bill
December 7, 2010 4:03 PM | Link to this
Such a shame! ACL has become "Sold American" like the rest of Austin. Course those ain't hippies living in those downtown condos. In the days of the Vulcan & the Armadillo 4 or 5 bucks would let you see the best acts in the country. Now tickets to venues like this are nothing more than status symbols for the metros. Just pray they don't discover what we got left, like the Spoke or the Saxon.
By Dave
December 7, 2010 2:49 PM | Link to this
It's like anything that's ever been cool. "Remember when..." Now that it has a price, a place, and a new face - it won't be what it was. Classic story. "Cool" changes every 27 seconds. What's cool is what's next. So what if ACL used to be a cool lil tv show on public tv and now it's a Huge Rock Fest yearly, a big venue etc - it's about discovering what turns you on. Austin bleeds music. Go see someone you don't know a thing about. Walk into any club on Red River, step into that stinky dive steaming with tattoos (Yes the Dirty Dog) it's an amazing place! Huge stage, great bands, usually free. Go support Roky & Okkervil. Go see Robert Earl Keen if you dig it. Joe Ely still kills, so does Omar. It's all there, don't waste your time focusing on what's bad, if you don't dig the $150 balcony seats, take $5 to Red Eyed Fly & buy me a Lone Star.
-dave
By Kennetha
December 7, 2010 1:01 PM | Link to this
Wow...$150. Too bad that even the music venues are pricing out the common folk who made these people popular...just like sports. :(
By Will Scheerer
December 7, 2010 11:44 AM | Link to this
Carolyn Wonderland and Steve Miller! Good choices, but an odd mix. Prices? Bad choices. I was afraid that the new ACL venue would change more than the location of the tapings. Looks like it's just going to be another high priced concert venue.
By Scott Stevens
December 7, 2010 11:38 AM | Link to this
"New Dallas"?! Bingo! That IS what this town is becoming and it is so sad. I can't stand the "Old Dallas" at all!
By SeeJayGee
December 7, 2010 11:29 AM | Link to this
@TheRentIs2DamnHigh Party
Your observation is self-evident. The "Old Austin", as you call it, died long ago. Glad I got here in '93 to say goodbye before it died. Having Rocky Erickson perform instead of Steve Miller does not change the fact that the Metrosexuals have now invaded downtown driving out the hippies and cosmic cowboys with $350/sq ft condos and now $500/person dinners and $150/person venue tickets. Old Austinites would never pay $500 for dinner or $150 to see a show. It is clear where things have gone, in the name of "progress" ACL has been transformed into a for-profit venture and a venue for only the well-to-do and reserved for all the wealthy new transplants from CA and points beyond. The 2nd Street development and most everything new downtown, including the new W Hotel is very much "New Dallas". Austin seems to want to have their cake and eat it too, still be funky, weird and non-conforming yet embrace all things modern. Sorry, we can't have it both ways. I read somewhere that when Austin began pasting "Keep Austin Weird" on bumper stickers and Tshirts it isn't! That is simply a marketing slogan, which is sad. Thankfully we still have SoCo but that too is also quickly fading into new-urbanism.
By TheRentIs2DamnHigh Party
December 6, 2010 7:13 PM | Link to this
The Steve Miller Band played at a big Lance Armstrong Tour de France celebration on Congress Avenue a few years back. It was worth every penny of the free admission. Robert Earl Keene opened.
The Steve Miller Band also played the Vulcan at 316 Congress on Nov. 8-9, 1968. Opening was New Atlantis and the de facto Vulcan house-band Shiva's Headband. That was 42 years ago, and frankly, while Steve Miller Band sold lots of records in the 1970s, its music has never been anything to write home about with little critical acclaim.
If the new Moody was more "Old Austin" and less "New Dallas," the opening act would be Roky Erickson backed by Okkervil River. Roky and the 13th Floor Elevators helped put the Vulcan Gas Company on the map.