Since South by Southwest is happening now I thought I should do a SXSW throwback post. I went to SXSW 14 years in a row and it was not only one of my favorite music festivals, but it was also a fantastic film fest and I did a long running series of film portraits there that I thought would be good to highlight. I went to SXSW for the first time in 2004 when I was managing a band called the Gaskets. The first couple years we went and played backyard BBQs and stuff like that but in 2006 they were finally accepted as an official act to the music festival, and not only that, but we submitted a music …