We arrived in town and went with our friend's to the Texas Theatre to see the Lemmy Movie. The Texas Theatre was opened by Howard Hughes in 1931, and is infamous for being the location in which Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of John F. Kennedy.
The lobby had a concession with unusually cheap prices as well as a bar!
The Lemmy movie was awesome. This rockumentary is all about Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, the founding member of Motorhead. There were interviews with Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Metallica, Alice Cooper and Dave Grohl all praising Lemmy. The movie is an intimate behind the scenes look at the life of Lemmy both at home and on tour.
http://www.lemmymovie.com/
We went to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch and to celebrate Cindy's Birthday. We browsed the rock n' roll memorabilia that graced the walls including a Motley Crue guitar, furry ZZ Top guitars, a Dimebag Darrell chrome guitar etc..
Later that night we went to see Slash and Ozzy Osbourne at the American Airlines Centre. It was great to see friends Brent and Todd play in front of such a huge crowd with Slash. They started their set at 7:20pm so that they could squeeze in a few more songs. Their set-list included "Rocket Queen" "Nightrain", "Paradise City", "Sweet Child O Mine", "Slither", "Back from Cali", "By the Sword" and "Ghost".
Ozzy started with his usual comical movie montage. This time, it featured clips of him superimposed in scenes from Jersey Shore, Twilight (in which he proclaimed "Vampires are pussies, I'm the Prince of Fucking Darkness" LOL) and as Iron Man...
Ozzy played a wide range of songs which included "War Pigs", "Iron Man", "Flying High Again" "Shot In the Dark" "I Don't Know" "Crazy Train" "Let Me Hear You Scream" and finished with "Mama I'm Coming Home" and "Paranoid".
We went to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. In 1963, it was the Texas School Book Depository. It exhibits the life and assassination of JFK and the affect it had on the world. It is the building where Oswald worked in when he shot JFK and where his rifle was found. We stood on the grassy knoll were many witnesses claim they heard the additional (4th) shot fired. There are still x's on the street where the shots that hit the president were fired. It was very surreal.
Later that day, we went to see the gravesite of Darrell Dimebag Abbott from Pantera and Damageplan. On December 8, 2004, a man burst on the stage and shot him at the Alrose Villa Club in Columbus, Ohio. We were fortunate enough to see Damageplan May 11, 2004 at the Starlite Room.
We headed over to Fort Worth Stock Yards and looked in the various shops and markets. We then went to Billy Bob's the Worlds Largest Honkeytonk. It's a huge country bar with a restauarant, bar, concert hall, bull riding venue, and games room. We enjoyed browsing the framed signed burgers, signed guitars, backstage pass wall, and handprints of country and rock artists that have played there.
We had an amazing time in Dallas, TX and Cin hand an awesome Birthday! :)
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