photo: Larry Reese
Dallas Morning News
January 17, 1980
by: Nancy Bishop
Oh, Willie, what we will do to see you. We’ll fry in the summer heat at one of your picnics. We’ll endure crowds of people — all kinds, most of them kind, but a few that usually become a little beer-sloshing, quick-tempered drunk and get a little crazy.
We’ll even go to the world’s largest, stuffiest sardine can — the Sportatorium — and sit on splintery seats just for a chance to wait until you play for us.
Tuesday’s concert was even worse for the several hundreds of people who didn’t get inside to see you because Gene McCoslin Productions had somehow sold more tickets to fans than the Dallas fire marshal decided would be a safe number to allow inside.
When 4,216 people had filed in, the wire door was slammed shut on the cluster of angry people who were holding tickets and who wanted a chance to pack in as tightly as audiences have before at other Sportatorium concerts. People who were promised by the promoters that they could get refunds at the ticket agencies were still visibly disturbed.
You know what. Willie can make a dorky hat look good!!!!!!
yes he can!
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