That feeling when you saw your favorite artist at Extravaganza. The time you saw an unknown band in the UCen that went on to superstardom. You can still conjure the images and the melodies like it was just yesterday, and you love to tell that story. Maybe it was Bob Dylan or Sublime. Ben Harper or Diplo. Social Distortion or Fleetwood Mac or Run-D.M.C. Jack Johnson ’97! Who else here remembers Mary’s Danish? Cue the music — and the memories.
Is It Live, or Is It Memorex?
La Cumbre Yearbook 1982
Peaches en regalia
The late, inimitable Frank Zappa rocked campus at the height of his “Valley Girl” fame. He’s pictured here in 1982 — and in his trés ’80s ensemble. Are his purple pants pegged? We don’t know, but we hope so. Either way, radical threads, Frank.
Photo by Maddie Fangio
FZ, phone home
Four decades later, guitarist Colin Crawford of the Austin-based indie pop project Dayglow channeled his inner Frank Zappa on stage at Extravaganza in 2022 with a strikingly similar stance and not completely dissimilar color palette. Rock on.
