You Kids Get Off My Berlin Wall

Both ran on the "album oriented rock" station in Dallas, i.e., the one that played "Stairway to Heaven" every day. One of them had Andy Warhol endorsing the Talking Heads. I'm pretty sure it was More Songs About Buidlings and Food. Imagine hearing "Freebird" and then, "Hi, uhm, this is Andy Warhol and, uhm, I think Talking Heads are really great...."

But the other ad really brought the culture clash: an announcement that the Sex Pistols would be coming through on tour. For years I have been puzzled by this memory, given that the only show in Texas anyone ever seemed to discuss was the one at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio (several hundred miles away) where Sid hit somebody over the head with his bass.

Somehow I forgot that the Pistols actually did play Dallas. That ad was neither a trick of my memory nor a sign of how badly organized the tour must have been. And it turns out that a video from that show of "Holidays in the Sun" is available online, which I put up now for all the other geezers in the house:

(crossposted from CT)