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• 2 • Action Magazine, May 2016 Big benefit for kids of stricken cop A benefit to help the Road, and police describe Vasquez, but records in you more personally.” crazy town a good place four children of injured po - the incident as a hit-and- the Bexar County clerk’s The benefit at Texas to live.” lice officer Ernesto run. office later revealed that Pride was arranged by Martin said 100 percent Vasquez will be held from The 8-year SAPD vet - Vasquez and Lopez were Wayne Martin. He heads a of all funds derived from 1 p.m. until 8 p.m. on May eran remains in a coma. granted a marriage li - 20-year old band know as the benefit will go to the 22 at Texas Pride Barbe - He has been moved from cense in June of 2015. The Lone Star Pickerz. Vasquez kids. cue on Loop 1604 near a hospital to a long-term Police said Lopez did A onetime employee of The benefit is sanc - Adkins. rehabilitation facility. He not attempt to visit both KITY and KONO tioned by the San Antonio Augie Meyers, Bobby was unresponsive at the Vasquez after the crash. radio stations, Martin re - Police Officers Associa - Flores, Patsy Torres, Two time of this writing. Chief of Police William calls when Action was tion. Augie Meyers Tons of Steel, and the In jail and charged with McManus said, “These born in 1975. Lone Star Pickerz will play failing to stop and render type of cases, family vio - “Thanks for your sup - the event. aid is 26-year-old Diana lence or whatever you port and the ink,” Martin Vasquez is the San An - Lopez. want to call it, are tragic said. “We are looking for tonio police officer who She was returned to regardless of who is in - folks to step up with some was run over on New San Antonio after being volved. When you know cool items for silent auc - Year’s Eve by a woman arrested in Laredo. the individual and work tion tables. These kids do identified as his wife. Police first identified with the individual on the need help and it is friends It happened on Blanco her as a “romantic lover” of street every day, it affects like you who make this

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• DEPARTMENTS • Sam Kindrick...... 6 Editor & Publisher ...... Sam Kindrick Everybody’s Somebody ...... 9 Advertising Sales ...... Amy Heller Reif ...... Action Staff Scatter Shots ...... 11 Photography...... Action Staff Distribution...... Ronnie Reed Composition...... Elise Taquino Volume 41 • Number 5

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Chicken Shit Bingo ...... 4

Action Magazine, May 2016 • 3 • Chicken Shit Bingo the rage of St. Hedwig By Sam Kindrick Hedwig, a Sunday after - droves upon St. Hedwig Hedwig, along with living populated the acreage Big T Roadhouse pool When the chicken noon past time hatched by from Austin, the Texas Hill quarters on two acres of with a happy herd of free- table. shits, the crowd roars, and country musician Dale Country, Corpus Christi, property on the southeast - roaming chicken hens Texas music icon Augie the ghost of John Demmer Watson. and neighboring San An - ern edge of Bexar who earn their keep sim - Meyers, Hal Ketchum, and will be the last soul in St. Fans of Dale Watson, tonio to join in the hoopla. County.. ply by laying breakfast other name performers Hedwig to holler “Bingo!” true Texas roots music he It all started three years Dale installed his eggs and splattering their have dropped in for Dale John was the Polish im - calls Ameripolitan, and ago when the Austin- brother Larry and their 91- credentials on a num - Watson performances at migrant who founded the chicken shit bingo in gen - based Watson bought The year-old mother in the liv - bered sheet of plywood Big T Roadhouse. And Bexar County hamlet of eral are descending in Big T Roadhouse in St. ing quarters. He also which fits neatly over The Black Sabbath legend St. Hedwig back in 1856, Continued on pg. 7 never dreaming that his lit - tle farming community would some day become the birth place of a wild honky-tonk game called chicken shit bingo. Hell, John just wanted to raise a crop, a family, and build a native stone Catholic Church which was named after the pa - tron saint of Silesia, that area of Poland from whence John Demmer sprang. He never would have imagined a mob howling over a gooey blob of chicken shit becoming the defining image for St. Hedwig. But it has happened. Chicken shit bingo has become the rage of St.

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• 4 • Action Magazine, May 2016 Action Magazine, May 2016 • 5 • It’s been a little over a year now since we had the mix. It came out just as I had hoped and expected.” says he likes John. Royce Showalter on the cover of Action Magazine. Long time waiting Portillo was represented by Jay Norton, law Royce is the last living founding member of the Showalter recalls that the feds grabbed his ini - partner of my friend Alan Brown, and it was through the San Antonio chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. tial patch after several drug busts and a prison sen - law firm that I obtained a copy of the indictment. Norton He turns 70 this month. tence, and that disgruntled club honchos didn’t issue no longer represents Portillo. Directly because of that column, the Bandidos him another patch until the funeral for Bandido Chuco It is a voluminous hodge-podge of allegations hierarchy stripped Showalter of his “patch,” the vest with in 2006. and assertions that include dope deals and acts of vio - Bandidos logo and other insignia which is commonly “They held back on giving me my patch be - lence, most of them by Bandidos beating Cossacks with known in biker speak as “the colors.” cause they said I was selling weed and bringing heat fists and feet, and on one occasion with a claw hammer, In the world of the outlaw biker, to have your down on the club,” Royce said. “But it was just bullshit. I and all of this obtained through telephone taps. patch pulled by the club’s elected powers is tantamount wasn’t doing anything any of the others weren’t doing.” It’s about territory to ex-communication from the Catholic Church. Or it He said a club official handed him the patch at What is mind-blowing about the big feud be - was during the old days when the Bandidos were be - Chuco’s funeral, then promptly introduced him to Skip tween Bandidos and Cossacks is that all of the killing coming the most hated and feared biker gang on Texas Hollandsworth, the Texas Monthly writer who was to resulted from a territorial dispute over the display of a highways. quote Royce and other Bandidos in a 2007 Texas colors patch. Brotherhood no more Monthly article. It seems the Cossacks had taken to wearing a “I’m getting along just fine without the patch,” “I think it is ironic that the same club member Texas rocker on the bottom of their vests, a privilege Royce says. “I was going to get cremated in those col - who introduced me to Hollandsworth and handed me claimed by Bandidos and Bandidos alone. ors, but the meaning has changed since I helped start back my patch after 27 years, was the same one who “It means that Texas is Bandido territory,” Royce the club chapter back in the 1960s. The spirit of broth - came for the patch at my home shortly after the Action Showalter explained. erhood is gone from the Bandidos concept. It couldn’t Magazine article appeared,” Showalter said. When asked about killings over a territory be fun to be a Bandido anymore.” He didn’t have to mention the obvious. patch, Royce said, “With each territory comes the Showalter, Snookie, Nick Doughtry, TaTa Mike, Showalter was sanctioned to talk with the Texas spoils--money, whores, dope, girls, and certain privi - and Preacher Gary were recruited to start the San An - Monthly reporter by the Bandido hierarchy. He didn’t ask leges afforded the territorial leaders.” tonio chapter by Bandidos founder the late Don permission to talk with me. There has been talk that the Cossacks might (Mother) Chambers, who started the main chapter in I don’t know Hollandsworth, but I can see why be financed by the Hells Angels of California, and it is Houston in 1966. he is welcomed at Bandido funerals and other functions. said that the Angels have bought a huge night club in Nine months after that, the San Antonio chapter He is a literary sycophant where outlaw bikers are con - the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Royce said he heard the was formed with Snookie as president and Royce the cerned, showing the proper amount of gulping fear and vice president. Showalter is the only one of that group unctuous gratitude just to be allowed access to the fear - rumor. still living. some fellows. Royce’s health has improved, result of doctors Royce says he has no regrets or apologies to Shortly after the Action article on Royce ap - stabilizing a heart condition, and he seems happier now make for that Action cover article in March of 2015. peared last march, we had the big Waco shootout be - with his lady Fritz, three dogs, a growing number of “I knew they would come for the colors when I tween cops, Bandidos, and hapless members of the neighborhood cats, and new friends, including the Kin - first contacted you on facebook about writing my story,” Cossacks Motorcycle Club. Nine died and all but one dricks. He has also reduced the amount of pain-killers Showalter said. “I expected the repercussions. I wasn’t was a Bandido. Then, without mentioning the shootings, for his crushed leg encased in a metal brace. worried for myself, but I didn’t want other people to get a sweeping racketeering indictment was returned A few oldtimer Bandidos check him out on rare hurt because of anything I had to say. Everybody out against three national Bandidos leaders. occasions. Timkin still calls from Washington State, and there is writing books and cashing in on magazine arti - When I visited Royce at his South San Antonio Donna Lee Chambers Reifschneider, daughter of Ban - cles. I just wanted to get my own story out there the way home last month, I took along a copy of the Waco in - didos founder “Mother” Don, calls Royce her “blue-eyed it should be told. I have been reading you for years, and dictment returned against former Bandidos national sweetie.” I knew you would lay it down honest, hard-core, painfully president Jeff Pike of Houston, enforcer Justin Forster, “It’s all about love and respect,” Showalter said. accurate at times, and with no sugar-coated bullshit in and vice president John Portillo of San Antonio. Royce “I’m starting to see more and more of it.” • 6 • Action Magazine, May 2016 other members of Dale is just a matter of time until feathered girl. Amazing. Within sec - Chicken Shit Bingo Watson’s family. the chicken shit hits a Fred was circumspect, onds, chicken handler continued from pg 4 The Sunday chicken numbered square, one of taking her time picking Dana Shaw yanked the shit bingo shows at Big T the intersecting lines, the specks of grain off the leghorn out of the cage, Ozzie Osbourne was re - Tally, who lives just up the are spirited affairs that intersection itself, or the board, unperturbed and scooped up the blob of portedly on his way to Big road in Universal City. feature live bands and border around the board. oblivious to the spectators chicken shit with a napkin, T before somehow getting Manager of Big T Road - three or more bingo I witnessed and pho - gawking into her little cleaned and sanitized the sidetracked. house is Suzanne games. tographed the games on a bingo domain. Fred didn’t winning numbered square When Watson first told Blankenship, who was Watson plays and em - Sunday afternoon that feel like taking a shit, and with a squirt bottle of me of his chicken shit with the operation when cees these events on an featured Watson and his handler Dana Shaw had cleaning fluid, and the bingo promotion, I point - Watson bought it. average of once a month. band of Lone Stars on the no luck hurrying the next bingo show was edly asked how he could “I met Dale years ago On the Sundays that Dale stage. process by rattling Fred’s ready to go. predict with any degree of in Austin while he was is not there, Tally usually I almost got trampled cage or banging on the It was enough to send accuracy the reliability making a motorcycle handles the microphone. by Big T customers rush - bingo board floor where John Demmer’s ghost hot- and frequency of a video,” Mike Tally said. “I The bingo board is a 4- ing like a herd of turkeys she was hunting, pecking, footing it back to Silesia in chicken shitting on a num - was with a bunch of bik - X-8-foot sheet of plywood to buy bingo tickets in a and picking for goodies. a blind panic. Or at least bered bingo board. ers, and we met Dale with room that adjoins the main She was too cool for up the road to China “There are few things in when he came over to 54 numbered squares that bar area. Bingo school that after - Grove or Cestochowa. this old world that we can talk. I started going to his correspond with 54 num - When all tickets for one noon, and a substitute When Watson emcees predict with an accuracy shows, and we became bers on a ticket . There are game are sold, the chicken was hurried in the bingo games he rating of 100 percent,” friends. I have been mak - actually 57 ways to win, chicken is placed under after some 30 minutes of spices up the proceedings Watson said, “and one is ing my living covering because a border around the wire and on the bingo unproductivity on Fred’s with a little personal gam - that a chicken will shit floors for the biggest part the board counts as a win - board. part. bit he calls “Let’s Make a quickly and usually plenty of my life, and Dale buying ning zone, as do two lines I watched my first “Some times we have Dale.” fast if it is alive and well. Big T Roadhouse worked that cross the board and chicken shit bingo game to run in a pinch-shitter, so Bingo game winners Sometimes it is later out perfectly for me. I have the intersection of these with amazement and a to speak,” laughed Mike are given a choice when rather than sooner, but been drinking in this beer lines in the center of the sense of incredulity. Tally, “but this is not the Watson is running the shit the chicken always joint for the past 18 years, board. Symbols for these With Watson singing norm. The chickens usu - show: Either keep the will.” so it was easy for me to winning areas are also Johnny Cash on the band - ally shit within minutes of $114 winning prize or While brother Larry join the Big T staff.” printed on tickets. stand, a Rhode Island entering the cage.” choose one of the four Watson sometimes drives Prior to buying Big T Tickets are $2 each, Red hen named Fred was And so it was with the pockets on Dale’s jeans Dale’s bus and acts as the Roadhouse, Watson pur - and the total pot for any placed in the cage by Big white leghorn who took for either a lesser prize or general overseer of the re - chased Gini’s Little Long - game comes to $114. T employee Dana Shaw, Fred’s place. Within sec - a greater one. mote St. Hedwig layout, horn Saloon in Austin, a The plywood bingo and the waiting game onds old Whitey had emp - “Dale always carries the front man who handles holding which first fea - board is covered by a commenced. While some tied her bowels on a cash in all four pockets,” band bookings and other tured chicken shit bingo, chicken wire cage, and of the hens have rooster numbered square, and the Mike Tally explained. “If promotions is longtime and a property which has when the chicken is names, it was quite obvi - money presentation was the contestant picks a Dale friend and fan Mike now been passed on to placed inside the cage, it ous that Fred was a red under way. Continued on pg. 12

Big T Roadhouse events organizer and booking agent Mike Tally Dale Watson is joined on stage by Celine Lee, an up-and-coming takes a break from chicken shit bingo madness with chicken performer who fronts a band she calls Celine Lee and The Texas wrangler and bartender Kristina Courtney. Tally holds a hen Three. Chicken shit bingo days at Big T Roadhouse draw a variety named Fred, one of the show’s biggest stars. of performers.

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• 10 • Action Magazine, May 2016 Harper’s farewell Certainly we know pouring for his farewell Check it out. Great art - families of wounded or ill Wayne Harper called it Wayne would have shows, Harper’s business work with a hell of a lineup veterans. flagged us through had he had been hurting. The for the Bandera quits last month as a per - Specht’s report still owned the club and prophet is never really ap - Stompede Memorial forming musician who Historic Specht’s been aware of the gate sit - preciated on his home Weekend celebration on Restaurant and Saloon owned his own nightclub. uation, but he was on the ground until he is packing the 27th, 28th, and 29th of should be re-opening by stage and doing what only up to leave. May. late May or Early June, ac - Wayne Harper can do with “Now that the decision Jake Penrod, Johnny cording to new owner style, class, and enor - has been made to sell Lee, and Jeannie Seely mous talent. And he was Martini’s, I have had peo - are on tap at 11th Street Scott Gruendler. singing and playing guitar ple ask why I’m selling it,” for Friday, May 27. The storied Bulverde before an adoring mob Harper told us recently. “If On Saturday, May 28, eatery and watering hole who had Martini’s filled to some of these people had 11th Street Cowboy Bar was closed down last year the scuppers. been coming in like they features Bret Mullins, T.G. by Kate Mangold, who There was one more did at one time, I might Sheppard, and Tommy had first tried a lease/pur - Martini’s performance have wound up keeping James McGroarty and Jake Hooker. chase deal with Thurman after this one, a private af - the place a bit longer.” The late Merle Hag - Love that didn’t work out. fair which included a veri - But Harper said it was gard’s son Marty Haggard Gruendler has already table who’s who of San time for him to bow out. He will be on the May 29 bill, spent a chunk of money Antonio politicians and suffers from vertigo, and along with Junior Gordon getting the place ready for elected officials, but we he needs time for inner- and Jeff Woolsey. Wayne Harper another run as a full serv - were unable to attend this ear treatment and much- 11th Street Cowboy ice restaurant and saloon, party because of produc - needed rest. Bar is our first Bandera and at this writing he was The last official show tion work on the maga - client since Thurman Love Wayne sold Martini’s to completing all require - for Harper at his Martini zine. had the old Cabaret Club Robert Binvoni, a 32-year- ments presented by the Club was Saturday April Wayne told his friend old San Antonio native on Bandera’s main street. fire marshal. 23, and with the new own - Hector Saldana of the Ex - who ran a couple of Pizza Since Bandera is but a “We have had to do a ership in place. press and News that the Huts. Binvoni has said he hop, skip, and jump up the lot to the place,” Gruendler The joint was jam- time had come for him to will try to preserve the old road from Helotes, we packed and the fire mar - sell Martini’s and retire Martini’s vibe. think it is way past time for said. “But we will have shal limit had been after owning the club for But there will never be San Antonio to re-discover everything in place and reached by 9:45 p.m., the 26 years. another Wayne Harper. Stella Tedesco what we have always con - ready for the long haul time of our arrival on the He has survived heart sidered to be the cowboy when we get open.” He could mimic every - They are now featuring scene. attacks, prostate cancer, capitol of the world with a A lifelong resident of one from Willie and Darrell their nightclub on the New door men at Mar - and a horrific fall from a heritage steeped in real McCall to Neil Diamond back cover of Action Mag - the Bulverde area who tini’s had their orders, so second-story parking . and Elvis Presley, and his azine. has loved Specht’s since we left with others who garage that left him with a finger style of picking a We consider Bandera’s Fun Run its halcyon years of the were denied admittance gimpy leg which still hurts guitar is astonishingly like 11th Street Cowboy Bar to The Fourth Annual late 1980s and early because of the crowded him. Jerry Reed and Chet be a prestige promotional 1990s, Gruendler has re - conditions. We have had Wayne on Friends 4 Fisher House Atkins. And Harper was a package for Action, and placed everything in the We were disappointed the cover of Action Maga - bike run will be June 4. songwriter in his own right we are happy to have the old kitchen, installed walk- that Action Magazine zine, and he is a former It starts at 9 a.m. and who recorded a fine album Bandera bar and country in coolers, new grease could not attend and pho - advertiser who remains a ends at 3:30 p.m. at Roy of his own. music venue on our back tograph Wayne Harper’s personal friend as well. Barnett’s Deer Crossing traps, and new wiring Wayne Harper is the cover. last official blast, but we His club has been visited Saloon in Selma. throughout. most under rated musician Like our front covers, had to laugh at the irony of through the years by such Live music will be by “We have a high-tech in the history of San Anto - the back covers are a re - the situation. musicians as Pat Green Jokester from 2 until 4 aerobic septic system, nio. flection of what we are all Those two door sen - and Charlie Robison, and p.m. new restrooms, and a new Hopefully, he will con - about. And country music tries wouldn’t have known former world champion There will be an auc - porch,” Gruendler said. tinue his music career in and its musicians have al - Action Magazine or Sam boxer Jesse James Leija tion and gun raffle . Regis - “We are starting to hire all some other form or fash - ways been the backbone Kindrick from a tub full of is a personal friend who tration fees are $15 for personnel, and we are ion. He will always have of Action Magazine. hippopotamus turds, and frequents Martini’s. riders and $10 for each hearing from a number of the support of Action Mag - Willie was on the cover neither of them could have Judges, lawyers, FBI passenger. azine. of our first issue 41 years the musicians who helped cared less. agents, and many other Lunch will be served ago, and Dale Watson is make the old Specht’s a But we harbor no ill will musicians are big Wayne Stompede blowout and included with price of on the cover of this one. live music hangout for foranyone. Harper friends and fans. Welcome to James Mc - the run. Lone Star Beer occu - many people.” It was a sign of the We don’t have the time Groarty and Stella All proceeds benefit the pied our first back cover, So stay tuned. We times, and we said as nor the memory to recount Tedesco, owners of the Fort Sam Houston Fisher and 11th Street is on this should have a full report in much in an email to a fraction of them. 11th Street Cowboy Bar in House, an institution one. the June issue of Action. Harper after his show. Despite the giant out - Bandera. which provides help for Action Magazine, May 2016 • 11 • won elected to keep her had seen. He refined it the music he has dubbed and the popularity is seen Chicken Shit Bingo $114. That’s when Dale and took it into the honky- Ameripolitan. in the musicians we have continued from pg 7 asked her what pocket tonks. Held in Austin, and em - playing at Big T.” she would have chosen In no way can chicken ceed this past year by Mike Tally, who books pocket that has less than In past “Let’s Make a had she elected to take shit bingo at The Big T Asleep At The Wheel all of the entertainment, the $114, that smaller Dale” games, Tally says the chance. She picked Roadhouse be construed leader Ray Benson, the says, “We are bringing in amount is what he or she some of the winnings from the one with the $4,000, as gambling, according to Ameripolitan awards in - new talent all the time. We gets to keep. If the amount Watson’s pockets have then almost had a heart Mike Tally, who went on to cluded a first-place finish try to stick with Texas is larger than the $114, been sizeable. And the attack when Dale revealed explain: by San Antonio’s Billy roots music, Ameripolitan the winner takes home the most he was ever known what he had in the “There is no gambling Mata in the music, , bigger amount. I have to pack into the game was pocket.” involved because band category, and this and a little Texas blues never seen Dale play the a whopping $4,000. Idea for chicken shit there is no take from the marks the first win for a and we slip in game without money in “Nobody won it,” Tally bingo came from a barn - house. All of the money San Antonio musician. from time to time.” his pockets.” recalled. “The lady who yard variety game Watson the players put up through Larry Watson said, Tallly says Ameripolitan the $2 ticket sales is “The Ameipolitan awards Continued on pg. 13 money that ultimately show has really taken off, goes back to the players. And the little guessing game Dale plays with the contestants involves only his personal money which he gives away as he pleases.” Dale Watson is a clas - sic country music purist, eschewing the pop crap that is now being passed off as country. His strin - gent adherence to the roots values of country music is reflected in the 3- year-old awards show for

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