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Austin American-Statesman From Paqe One Wednesday, November 24, 1999 A17 Twice as nice TtTT7TT Price! Doug Sahm's friends, fans celebrate a Texas original Continued from Al i I mmmMmtmimiyJ Call Now For A Free Estimate 18 Solariums Sunrooras Conservatories R-2 'ttm Larti Xatimui Cimm Worn Kevin Virobik-AdamsFor AA-S About a thousand people from all walks of life came to celebrate Texas music legend Doug Sahm's life Tuesday. Many of those, such as Bill Holbrook, left, and Jim Starboard, had to take in the service by loudspeaker outside the packed San Antonio funeral home. Has 360 Done A 180? governor would have registered a double-take. This (which ended with a jam session at the Laboratory Brewing Company (nightclub, was reserved for a musician who stayed vital through five decades, helping to define a music scene in Austin and showing that blues, conjunto, i rock, Cajun and country could Jcoexist beautifully as long as they're played with soul. I Shawn Sahm broke up the som-(ber occasion with hilarious sto- ries that earned nods of recogni-jtionfromtheaudience.

"You could never get ahold of Dad. He got hold of you," Shawn said. He described his father as a man of many fervent I interests, especially baseball "When we were driving around jand my father saw the illumina-tion of a baseball field a couple miles away, us kids knew we were gonna be there for a while," he recounted. "Dad would pull up to the diamond and right away he'd be telling everyone how to play." Shawn, a musician who often with his father in recent told of the time he took his dad to a Metallica concert. "I'm the oldest one here," Doug exclaimed, i to which Shawn answered, "Yeah, Dad, but you're the hippest." The hipster, whose first hit was with-his faux-British Sir Douglas Quintet, wouldn't have liked the i way the services began, with the funeral director's cell phone going Jofif in mid-announcement, then a cheesy oldies radio station piping in music.

The station had planned make a special on-air announcement at 3:45 pm. But be- cause the viewing took so long, the timing was off, and a weather re-( port, followed by a hit by another artist, came out over the p.a. instead. 1 Country singer Lee Roy Parnell led the movement in the crowd to i can the radio tie-in. After all, with the exception of "She's About a Mover," "The Rains Came" and i "Mendocino" in the '60s with the Quintet and "(Hey Baby) Que Paso" in the '90s with the Texas Tornados, Sahm's gritty vocals rarely heard on the airwaves.

The new Austin 360. "My father always said that you either got it or you didn't," Shawn said. And hundreds who got Doug Sahm nodded in agreement. After the services at Sunset Funeral Home let out and Sahm's body was moved to be buried next to his father and mother in a private ceremony at an adjacent cemetery, many of those on hand milled in the parking lot and told their own Sahm stories. "There was no such thing as failure in his life," said Reprise record label Vice President Bill Bentley, who started Tornado Records with Sahm a few months ago.

"There would be like two po-dunk stations playing the Tornados, and Doug would be acting like he had a hit record on his hands. "They're playing us in he'd say. 'If you can win over Poughkeepsie, you can take on the Bentley said a statue to Sahm should be built in his beloved Austin. "He belongs right next to Stevie (Ray Vaughan)," Bentley said. Back in Austin at Antone's, one of Sahm's favorite clubs, preparations were under way for tribute shows Dec.

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