Houston
Houston is the most populous city of Texas.
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Zappa concerts in Houston
- 68/08/31 Houston TX US The Catacombs
- 73/03/12 Houston TX US Music Hall
- 74/03/10 Houston TX US Sam Houston Coliseum
- 75/10/11 Houston TX US Hofheinz Pavilion, University Of Houston
- 76/10/ Houston TX US
- 77/09/14 Houston TX US Music Hall
- 80/10/21 Houston TX US Sam Houston Coliseum
- 81/10/17 Houston TX US Summit Arena
- 84/12/12 Houston TX US Sam Houston Coliseum
References to Houston in Zappa's music
- Zappa cited Houston among his "favorite other stuff" in Data For Sensitive or Critical-sensitive Position (1968).
- VIRGIL [8-10 / 15º-(-30º)], one of the constellations in the "One Size Fits All" (1975) "universe", has a star named "Houston". This could refer to the Texan city Houston, but since several closeby stars refer to the New York subway system: "125th", "Lenox", "Houston" and "Canal", it is more likely that it refers to the Houston Street Station, a street and metro station in New York City.
- Wonderful Tattoo!: "And the wonderful tattoo John Stuckey in Houston did for me. / We plan to continue the design on my balls the next time I'm in Houston."
People born in Houston, Texas
- Billy Gibbons, guitarist of ZZ Top
- Don Julian
- Harold Land
- Richard Linklater
- Mike Nesmith (of The Monkees)
- Joe Stuessy
- Johnny "Guitar" Watson
- Donald Roller Wilson
Frank Zappa about Houston
"You know how I feel about Houston? It’s one of the few places that’s left in the United States where the blues still matters. And that’s one of the things that I really like about it. It has become my favorite city in Texas, because in the last year or so, while I’ve been trying to raise money for the Thing-Fish musical, I spent a lot of time down there talking with a lot of people, and I got to like the place very much. If you didn’t just have such unpredictable weather … and a dangerous police force. Of course, that’s like Los Angeles, so … Even in the ritzy part of town, and I was talking to those people about investing in this thing. I found out that people with millions of dollars in their pockets still like the Blues. You don’t find that in Chicago. You don’t find that in New York. You don’t find it in Denver. That’s something that seems indigenous to Houston." - Frank Zappa in Zappa Dishes It Out, interview by Roger Dakotah, Public News, 12 December 1984. [1]
