{"id":1055,"date":"2005-11-27T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/11\/27\/casino-el-camino-11th-anniversary-party-recap\/"},"modified":"2005-11-27T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T21:28:29","slug":"casino-el-camino-11th-anniversary-party-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/casino-el-camino-11th-anniversary-party-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino El Camino 11th Anniversary Party Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/sets\/1459706\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sons of Hercules\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2005\/11\/67633328_ac6e66e970_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Took me a few days, but I finally posted some shots from the party. I arrived around 10:30, just before Nic Armstrong and the Thieves began their set, things were running late because of a faulty mixing board. In keeping with Murphy&#8217;s Law, the keg cooler had also died that afternoon, meaning that they had to pack the thing with ice for the whole night or lose all of the kegs. There wasn&#8217;t anywhere to get a new compressor at 4pm on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I&#8217;m guessing they&#8217;ve gotten it repaired by now as the ice was causing a swamp behind the bar.<\/p>\n<p>I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicarmstrong.com\/\">Nic Armstrong<\/a> at ACL, but they were quite good, definitely working the British angle. I didn&#8217;t get close enough to get any good shots because it was already so crowded on the patio by the time I walked back there. The whole place was packed for most of the night. I saw quite a few people there: <a href=\"http:\/\/wileywiggins.blogspot.com\/\">Wiley<\/a>, Johnny V. from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkswords.com\">Pink Swords<\/a>, several members of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uglybeats.com\">Ugly Beats<\/a>, to name a few. I hung out at the bar until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonsofhercules.com\">Sons of Hercules<\/a> started and then headed back to get some shots for the web site. I think I got some pretty good ones. They had a good sound considering they were out on the patio and crammed into a corner. I think Dale was a little distracted by the go-go dancers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known Casino for roughly 15 years. We were record store clerks together at the old Sound Warehouse at Burnet and 49th. I met up with him and several others in Buffalo in 1993 for a Jacklords reunion, which is when he started talking to Mark, who already owned several bars there, about partnering to open a place on Sixth Street. Who would&#8217;ve thought that one year later, it&#8217;d be open and twelve years later it&#8217;d be going strong?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Casino and his crew, some of whom have been with the bar since the beginning (well, Gargoyle, anyway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took me a few days, but I finally posted some shots from the party. I arrived around 10:30, just before Nic Armstrong and the Thieves began their set, things were running late because of a faulty mixing board. 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