He'd started playing at a young age when a bout with polio kept him at home developing his piano playing, though he of course logged time in his parents' corner store. Meyers was already an established player when the Dave Clark Five came to San Antonio. The Rolling Stones played their second and third shows in the U.S. San Antonio then boasted a thriving rock scene and market that attracted the best package tours and young British acts invading these shores. These days, that encounter would be just another show, but in the mid-1960s, rock concerts were rare events. "They came in the dressing room and Mike Smith, the singer, was like, 'He's got a bloody fucking Vox!' They played it, and afterwards I told him, 'Yeah, I'd like to go to England some time,' and he gave me his address and phone number and said, 'You get to England, call me.'" (Courtesy of "'But we need an English Vox,' they said. The British Invasion of 1964 changed his look, and that of rock & roll, forever. I got offstage and heard in the background, 'The Dave Clark Five aren't going on – their organ is broken.'Īugie Meyers in the early 1960s, around the era of the Goldens. Mike Smith, it reads, an address and phone number beside it. He comes across a yellowed page of blue-lined notebook paper in the scrapbook, crooking a long index finger at a name written in pencil. That's a long way from the 87 acres of the Bulverde, Texas, farm he was raised on and inherited from his grandparents. He lives with wife Sara Ramirez-Meyers in San Antonio's northern suburbs, not far from her parents. Meyers is perched on a stool in his home office, his trademark braid dangling all the way down his back as he leafs through a scrapbook of memorabilia. "About two weeks later he calls me and says: 'I wrote a letter, and they cost $285! Costs close to 300 bucks and they want $60 freight!' I said, 'I want one.' "The man said, 'That's from England.' I said, 'Can you get it?' So I went down to San Antonio Music and said, 'I'd like to get one of these.' "I was looking at a magazine in '62 and saw a picture of a Vox. Along the way, he's written songs like "Hey Baby Kep Pa So" that stand as anthems to the nowhere-but-Texas Lone Star attitude. His potent stew of rock, blues, country, and conjunto is at once distinct and distinguished. Like Sahm, he looms large not only in the musical back pages of San Antonio, but of Austin, San Francisco, Scandinavia, and points in between. His career has crisscrossed cultural boundaries for decades.
If Doug Sahm was what Rolling Stone's Chet Flippo once termed a "walking talking Austin Chamber of Commerce," Meyers is the godfather of San Antonio rock, poster child for staying and playing on the Alamo City's home team in the Texas league – white boy, vato, soul man, musician. Ever since his Vox organ on the Sir Douglas Quintet's "She's About a Mover" branded the 1965 hit with Texas twang to his Grammy-winning work with the Texas Tornados, Meyers has stood on a Hall of Fame lifetime. On the yet-to-be-compiled list of Top 10 All-Time Rock & Roll Keyboard Riffs, Augie Meyers is a lock.įor a musician most notable as a sideman, Meyers boasts a career few can match. The first picture went on to be used in Twitter memes later that year.Augie Meyers today, as well known for his accordion playing as for his famous Vox Continental (Photo by John Anderson) The tweet gained over 710 retweets and 1,200 likes. On May 13th, 2016, Versace tweeted his excitement about the release of the latest album from hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper with four pictures of him emotionally listening to music in his headphones (shown below). It's name has been an issue of dispute among researchers and social media users. The image grew popular as a parody of emotional reactions to music in the fall of 2016, as Twitter users paired the image with song lyrics and a motion-blurred picture of a volume knob being turned up.
Turn Up the Volume is an image of popular Vine, Twitter, and Instagram personality Jay Versace crying with headphones on while pumping his fist in the air. Black, lyrics, song, twitter, volume, volume 100, maximum volume, rae sremmurd, worldstarhiphop
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