I love the Austin City Limits show, I mean who the hell doesn't? But in the back of my mind I have always thought the studio was dumpy. On TV the audience sits there in the dark, they look kind of blurry; Austin is always dark. I remember the first time I went to Austin in the daylight, it freaked me out.

Hopefully, Willie will change all this.

I can't find an audience shot but I found this photo from the Audio Engineering Society of Central Texas, who took a group photo onstage one day. You can kind of get the idea. Whatever. You know what I'm talking about anyway. But look at those engineers - these are exactly the people we need to solve this lighting problem. I don't care if they're "audio" - they know how to finagle stuff: