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Weekends Call for Showtimes 210 212-7638 saroselive.com • 4 • Action Magazine, June 2011 To view selected Kindrick Columns go to www.actionmagsa.com The demise last month of San Antone Cafe and Steve Silbas can rattle off the names, recordings, The magical Bijou Concerts--recalled by most as Casbeers at the Church-- stage show accomplishments, and backup side- again underscores the painful truth about live music as men for an endless lineup of musicians who range San Antonioʼs Bijou Club on San Pedro was one presented on the nightclub and small venue level. from the eclectic to mainstream superstars in the of these legendary little hangouts. After winding up Itʼs a risky business, fraught with pratfalls and dead making. And from their beginning on Blanco Road one of his Saturday night shows at Flooreʼs Country ends for club and restaurant owners who donʼt under- at old Casbeers, Steve and Barbara have enjoyed Store in Helotes, Willie Nelson couldnʼt wait to reach stand what they are dealing with. an unbelievable rapport with the musicians they the Bijou for some late night jam sessions. Jerry Jeff In the case of Barbara Wolfe and Steve Silbas, have booked, an edge that most of their competi- Walker and Ray Wylie Hubbard were also regular im- the Casbeers at the Church people, it was a live mu- tors have eyed with envious amazement. promptu visitors, and didnʼt Jackson Browne bounce sic hot spot bail-out by two people who did know what Because of their non-commercial affinity for into the Bijou after one of his major shows downtown. they were dealing with. They knew, and they stuck to the men and women who earn a living playing mu- And was that Leon Russell we saw on the Bijou piano the rough and rocky road until a spongy economy and sic, Barbara Wolfe and Steve Silbas formed bonds stool one night with Blind George McClain? Steveʼs failing health finally brought an end to it all. and lasting friendships with musicians which can- The old Longneck was another musician favorite, not be accounted for at the gate or in a contract and I can still recall the night we got Jimmy Buffett Hard to understand guarantee.They earned the respect and trust of into the popular joint off Blanco Road with nothing the musicians who worked their stages, and most more than a phone call to his Ramada Inn suite, and of the musicians responded in kind. Since entering the live music game back in 1999 a promise of slim bucks and all the margaritas that For many of the pickers, a music illiterate when they booked their first bands at historic Cas- San Antonioʼs own little “Margaritaville” could offer. nightclub owner with dollar signs for eyeballs, is beers on Blanco Road, the husband-wife team of- Buffett was crossing over from East Coast to West their natural enemy, a tone-deaf pariah with a cash Wolfe and Silbas has amazed and confounded their Coast, and he went for the deal. There was time prior register heart who will use them, abuse them, and competitors, bringing in some road acts which their to the Buffett show at Ron Singletaryʼs old Longneck bad-mouth them for years to come if their appear- space and accommodations could not possibly justify Club for about 20 30-second spots on old KEXL FM, ance doesnʼt pack the house. Silbas and Wolfe for a profitable night. but that was enough. The joint was packed, and the have never been of this ilk. How could they afford bands and music stars such parking lot, too, and Buffett said it “felt right.” “If Steve and I had wanted to make money,” as the Texas Tornados, Kinky Friedman, Terri Hen- Barbara Wolfe said, “we would have opened a drix, Gatemouth Brown, Joe King Carrasco, Sisters karaoke bar.