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• 2 • Action Magazine, July 2012 FlBay Jtac-quFes Eo. Stroap tedA ndS flat-pfooteud onr thse flo or.R ema Tiimn Dunecand and Maonu Gninob iliG are twro opasus penrfectded. Floor Action sports analyst While the Spurs stayed hardly a foot of the finest players in the NBA, but high - Certainly, no team can depend upon Watching the Spurs getting blasted above floor level, the Oklahoma City light reel slammajammas are not their alley-oops for a total game plan. Some four straight by the young Oklahoma City Thunder took to the clouds. specialties. consider the lob-dunk more of a risky hot - Thunder, I suddenly realized a major dif - With first one Oklahoma player after Duncan does dunk on occasion, but dog maneuver than a reliable point pro - ference between the two teams. another lobbing alley-oop passes up and hardly ever on an alley-oop pass, and Tim ducer. And although Blake Griffin wowed There is virtually no alley-oop pass in above the rim, the thundering Thunder is the first to joke about his “horizontal” the world when he jumped and dunked the San Antonio arsenal. dunks that followed never ceased as the floor game. over a Kia car during the allstar foolish - I know that LeBron and Miami Spurs fell four games to lose the Western Manu’s rare dunks are herky-jerky ness, the Spurs had little trouble with Grif - thumped Oklahoma City in the finals, but Conference championship series. leaps which see him barely getting the fin as they swept L.A. first things first. So what the hell happened? ball over the rim before landing stiff- Still, the alley-oop slam produces both If the Spurs are to ever again compete As Oklahoma City took its game up legged and with little forward momentum fast points and a psychological rush that in an NBA finals game, the team is going and above the rim, the “winningist team in to spare. is undeniable. With each thunderous to have to get a handle on the Western Di - basketball” was reduced to floor-level Given Ginobili’s fragile state, his sup - Thunder lob and cram, the Oklahoma fan vision. spectatorship. porters would probably rather he didn’t roar got louder. And with each Oklahoma Embarrassing and inadequate are The dunk show was dizzying and em - dunk the ball at all. dunk, I kept wondering... words that followed the Spurs latest fizzle phatic. And reserve center Tiago Splitter is an Don’t we have one single Spur who out. With sweeps of both Utah and the Serge Ibaka dunked. Thabo Sefelosha anemic dunker to say the least. can jump ? L.A. Clippers, the winningist record in the dunked. Kendrick Perkins dunked. James If the Spurs have a player capable of NBA, and a franchise record 20-game Harden dunked. And superstar Kevin Du - completing the alley-oop, it is rookie winning streak, the Spurs had Oklahoma rant had a field day with his acrobatic and Kawhi Leonard. But nobody seems willing City down the first game. stratospheric super slams. to toss him the lobs, and Spurs coach Maybe the silver and black started lis - Point guard Russell Westbrook was Greg Popovich may have little use for the tening to the hype. “The best team in bas - also up there near the rafters, jamming spectacular alley-oop. ketball.” And wasn’t it Utah center Al home several putbacks, and startling vir - When Richard Jefferson was with Jefferson who said of the Spurs: “I don’t tually everyone with a couple of running Jason Kidd at New Jersey, the Kidd-to- see any way anyone can beat them.” rim-rattlers. Jefferson alley-oops were works of East Poison words for any team who listens Can anyone recall ever seeing Tony Coast basketball legend. to them. And I was among the gullible who Parker dunk a basketball? But when Jefferson came to San Anto - bought into the “best team in basketball” Or Matt Bonner? nio, the alley-oops disappeared along bullshit after the Spurs took game one Or Stephen Jackson? with the rest of Richard’s game. Maybe it from the Thunder. Or Gary Neal? was a coach decision, and maybe Tony For game two, the team came out flat. Or Danny Green? Parker and Jefferson couldn’t get the lob

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• 4 • Action Magazine, July 2012 I get a hoot out of that gigantic atheist billboard at IH 10 near 410. Parker says divorce rates are highest in the Bible Belt, and he goes on to say, “It is It says: particularly interesting given the fact that the Christians getting divorced in the high - Don’t believe in God? Join the club. est numbers are among the Christians who are most likely to raise an alarm about First off, let me say that I don’t give a shit what anybody believes or disbe - the state of marriage in soTcihetey. Atheist Mission lieves, and I reserve the right to be wrong, and sometimes off-color, with various and sundry longhaired redneck predilections that I harbor. Since erection of the atheist billboard, Parker said, additional groups have If Cornerstone Church preacher John Hagee can legally advertise his min - expressed interest in joining the coalition. And membership in all of the atheist groups istry with a gargantuan billboard on North Loop 1604, then the non-believers should has jumped about 15 percent in just a few days, prompting Parker to say, “We are be afforded the same right. And I reserve the right to fleer and jape at the accomplishing our mission.” modern-day Robert IngerWsolhls yas aI dlol Jtohhne H targeoeu’s bhellelfi?re and brimstone delivery. Parker’s newspaper article quotes him as saying: “Of course, not all non- believers find it safe yet to come out. In this city of a thousand churches, it is easy But why, I wonder, do the two sides go to so much trouble? for us non-believers to be ostracized by friends, family, and employers. Some of us There either is a God or there is not a God, and “theists,” as the believers are very open about our non-beliefs, but others can’t afford to be. Even some of our are called, feel they have a spiritual obligation to spread the message of a creator kids have to be careful at school lest they endure the ridicule of students and teach - to those who might be ignorant of this devine presence. I believe the term is prose - ers alike. Yes, teachers.” lytizing. If Parker is “accomplishing” his “mission” with the atheist billboard, I reckon The atheists, on the other hand, seem hell-bent (pun intended) to convince that’s just hunkydory and too cool for school, but the big sign challenges those who the rest of the world that no God exists, although the new breed of non-believers do believe in a power greater than themselves, and I happen to be among this num - advance a mantra that suggests otherwise. ber. Once again, the well-worn and all-encompassing word “discrimination” rears On the subject of God or no God, my favorite scribe was a 1930s stock hus - its ugly head, and much like gays who are finally being recognized as fellow human tler by the name of Bill Wilson. beings, the atheists are talking about “coming out of the closet.” A former agnostic who drank himself to death’s very door before undergoing I don’t believe the level of abuse can be compared. Being vilified, ostracized, what he called a spiritual awakening, Wilson wrote the legendary book which prob - murdered, physically abused, and denied membership and leadership positions in ably saved more lives in the 20th Century than Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine. religious bodies of their choice, gays seem to have much more to complain about Known today by millions of recovered alcoholics as “The Big Book,” Wilson’s than some kid who was smitten by the mention of “God” in some public school func - journal is simply titled AAlncoshwolices rA ntohnyemsoeu sq. uestions tion. But atheist leaders like Jim Parker feel very strongly about their non-belief. Without embracing any religious doctrine, or even trying to define anyone’s And it must be daunting at times to feel very strongly about something you really conception of God, Wilson’s fourth chapter in the book is titled We Agnostics. don’t believe in., Acknowledging that most alcoholics coming into the AA program are of the Parker is president of the group that erected the atheist billboard. It is called non-believing persuasion, Wilson asks some questions that neither science nor the Freethinkers Association of Central Texas. He is also coordinator of the San Antonio greatest theologians of modern times have been able to answer. Coalition of Reason. On the book’s page 54, Wilson wrote: Imagine life without faith. Were noth - A headline over a Parker column on the Express-News religion section May ing left but pure reason, it wouldn’t be life. But we believed in life--or course we did. 19 read: Atheists should sBtainldl ubpo aandr pdro’sud ply ujorinp thoe scelub. We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet there it was. Could we still say the whole thing was In the article, Parker said, “The purpose of the billboard is to let other non- nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling believers know that they are not alone. In fact, there are several groups in the San on to a destiny of nothingness? Of course we couldn‘t. The electrons themselves Antonio area, each serving a specific niche, that people can join in to be with other seemed more intelligent than that. like-minded people.” While writing for the Express-News, I interviewed renown atheist Madalyn Then Parker engages in a bit of believer-bashing of his own, noting that Murray O’Hair, finding nothing about her non-belief to be particularly offensive. What atheists, agnostics, Mormons, and Jews all rated higher on a U.S. Religious Knowl - was offensive about Madalyn were the wasp nest wads of black curly hair in her edge Survey than did evangelicals and mainline protestants. stinking armpits. Parker says a friend of his became a non-believer only after he read the As for me and my beliefs, I know there is a God, and I know that I’m not Bible. Referring to findings by the evangelical organization Barna Research Group, Him. And that’s all I need to know. Action Magazine, July 2012 • 5 • • 6 • Action Magazine, July 2012 BLETTERSad MTO cFadassoc iaated wnith 'Jdourn aliLsts' huas kenpt mae ju stf inr froom Wimllie Nels onS’s picpnic drowni ant dgoor. I brBought ronea homne to creadh and was THE EDITOR from submitting any writings to any local the racetrack in Brian/College Station. happy to find nothing has changed except papers for years, but your 'Outlaw Journal - Sam said the picnic was quite a deal. faces and names to protect the elderly. I ist' persona has shown me otherwise. Everything from music to cars being set on don’t know how old Sam is now. I think he I'm new to the area; An escapee from fire and a few acts we won’t go into here. is older than me and I’m staring three- the now 'urbanized' and congested city of I met Sam when I joined up with the chili quarters of a century right in the face. That New Braunfels. And I cannot be more cooking crowd. Back then chili cooking must make Sam 80 or 90. thankful that I've found a town with hos - was about as entertaining as it got. Not Me? I stayed broke in the construc - pitable and friendly citizens, and even unusual for two local TV stations to send tion trades most of my life. I finally discov - more so, a damn good music scene. cameras and crews. There was always ered I could get by on BS. It has stood me You're the print that I refer to when I some print reviews of the activities. in good stead. I write a page for the “Luck - don't know who's playing where, like a One of the entertaining parts of enbach Moon” every month. (I’m always friend showing a newcomer around. the chili cooking was the hat stomping con - on page 7).. I have a few articles up at Keep on telling it like it damn well is, test. That consisted of seeing how bad www.texascooking.com (Look under “Tra - and keep on filling all of us in on the music you could tear your hat up on purpose. ditional Texas Food”. If you wanna know and events around these parts. Sam was a frequent winner of the contest. what I was doing last fall, check Dear Editor: Cheers to you, He had the ability to use some moves that http://www.statesman.com/life/from-dare - Not often do I check newstands for new Luna Pohl were reserved for the Kung-Fu guys in his devil-to-filmmaker-the-showman-must-go- issues of local papers, but having discov - Spring Branch presentation. There were back flips and 1923950.html?cxtype=rss_ece_frontpage ered Action I must admit that I am hooked. Dear Editor: yells of “Eyaah” in there. Bye the bye, I was first runner up in the Every week I find myself at the Chevron I was remembering a hot, summer day I kept up with Sam via the snail mail as “Texas Monthly” short film contest. station purchasing my could-be-worse in 1974 when I was hanging out at Luck - it was that or telegram back in those prim - I’ll wind up saying I remember the first vices, and double-checking for a new issue enbach waiting to see if Hondo was going itive days. He encouraged me with my writ - issue of “Action” and I’m happy to have a on the stands. And along with my Camel to show up. Hondo never did make it that ing and I thank him for it. copy of the latest edition.. Keeps Sam off Regulars and Red Bulls, I am constantly day but a guy I knew from Sanantone Sam had an unhappy divorce from his the streets.. reminded by the friendly and familiar faces drove up in his old truck. His name was job writing for the newspaper and before John Raven of the gas station's employees that the Sam Kindrick and he was a writer from one long “Action” was born. The entertainer formerly known paper is free. of the dailies down there. Sam was the I have kinda kept up with Sam through as “Bad”. Mister Sam Kindrick, if only I could first working writer I met. I was kinda of an the years. Editor’s Note: leave you a tip at the very least! aspiring writer at the time and was hoping Today, June 14, 2012, I was down at The correct age is 97, John. As you You're writing is low key, yet phenome - I’d learn something from Sam. Luckenbach, Texas and bless pat, there know, I have lived a rough and physically nal. The incredibly dull stereotype that I've What I learned that day was that Sam was was a stack of “Action” on the bench by the debilitating life.

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Action Magazine, July 2012 • 7 Krayolas rock on with new records

The Krayolas have added these great musicians, and a sport the fancified duds which a adash onf flasdh to the ir msusi - nway ato expzress zour gyratitud e sdefinue the Kiraytolas s of today. cal stage show, and band for all that has fallen our way.” Only regular member of leader Hector Saldana is un - For any newcomer to the the group in plain civilian repentant. San Antonio music scene, the clothing is organist/vocalist Of the blindingly colorful Krayolas are an Alamo City Luvine Elias, a founding costumes now being dis - Cinderella band that started member of the Royal Jesters played by the group, Hector with a bunch of fuzzy-faced who still appears with that says, “We want to look as brats from Robert legendary group. good as we sound, and I be - E. Lee and Edison high What is still hard for many lieve that we are trying to give schools breaking out in the to fathom is that the Krayolas back as much as we have old Warehouse Club with ma - broke up in 1988 and didn’t been given.” terial that soon drew national re-form until 2007, returning Reminiscent of 1950s attention. with an energy level and de - Grand Ole Opry attire, the That was 1975, and the gree of professionalism that suits worn by Krayolas mem - pundits were quick to label well suits the older version. bers are spectacular hand- our young Krayolas the Tex- “Hey,” says 55-year-old stitched and embroidered Mex Beatles and the Mexican Hector Saldana, “we are the creations that feature images Beatles. old guys now, and we have to ranging from Buddy Holly to The Saldana brothers, try even harder. That’s part of the late Esteban Jordan (eye lead vocalist Hector and what the new costumes are Krayolas leader Hector Saldana. patch and all) to the Virgin of drummer David, along with about. We want to give them Note image of Buddy Holly and Steve Guadalupe. lead guitarist Van Baines, their money’s worth.” (El Parche) Jordan on his coat sleeve. Hank Williams, Conway played it to the hilt, even No longer chasing the Alex, Comido 12 Heads in a number-one on Amazon’s top Twitty, and Little Jimmy Dick - wearing the Beatles-like mythical major recording Bag, and Fruteria (the fruit International Digital ens never looked snazzier. black suits with pegged pants label that was once the pie in cup song).” chart--thanks to a free Ama - “It’s a sort of tribute state - and spit-shined oxfords. the sky for many an aspiring The Krayolas are regulars zon Exclusive download ment,” says Hector Saldana, And these are the three recording artist, the Krayolas on Sirius XM’s Kick Out the sampler Tex-Mex 21st “a way to honor some of band members who now have embraced cyber space Jams with Dave Marsh and Century offering songs from and the world of satellite Little Steven’s Underground our four albums and new radio with a fervor. Garag e, as well as on Roots songs we recorded with Hector Saldana admits and Branches of Americana Flaco Jimenez.” that his friend and mentor, with Ray Wylie Hubbard on Saldana called this an es - Augie Meyers, had a big KNBT-FM, Anything Anything pecially big deal, “because hand in the band’s resur - with Rich Russo, KUT, we’d never ranked on Ama - gence. KSYM-FM, KXTX-FM, zon before and it puts us next “Augie just handed us the KXTN-FM, and KEDA. to people like Sharira, Amy great song Little Fox, a Men - Also, the band has been Winehouse, Enrique Iglesias dicino -like tune that he had featured on NPR’s All Things and Adele.” left from his Sir Douglas Considered, PRI’s Whad Ya Hector added that the Quintet days,” Saldana said. Know with Michael Feldman, Krayolas also have a new EP “It was a wonderful gift for us. NBC News and in Texas on iTunes called Isabel, fea - And it resulted in Augie play - Monthly, Pollstar and the Vil - turing songs like Honey Bee ing with us on an album that lage Voice. of Love and Bob Dylan’s All I he basically produced, our La Saldana said his Box Really Want to Do. Conquistadora cd, which in - Records label has received Saldana was 17 years of cludes Little Fox. ” good recognition, largely be - age when he and brother Hector said: “The Krayolas cause of the band’s five David started forming their have released four critically- straight appearances on Krayolas group in the Sal - acclaimed albums since SXSW, which included official dana family garage on Jack - recording Augie’s Little Fox in showcases with Augie and son-Keller Road in San August, 2007. They include Miami Steve Van Zandt. Antonio. La Conquistadora, Long Leaf “The big news for us,” Sal - Action Magazine was in its Pine (No Smack Gum), dana said, “is that for the last first year of circulation in Americano, and Tipsy Topsy 17 straight weeks the Kray - 1975, and we were present Turvy. olas have been number-one that year for the Krayolas “The Krayolas have scored on Amazon’s Top Latin Digital maiden gig at the old Ware - national satellite radio hits Albums chart, and ranked house Club. Hector and Luvine Elias with Little Fox, Catherine, • 8 • Action Magazine, July 2012 Continued on page 14 Action Magazine, July 2012 • 9 Goodbye John paper’s obit section, for Mor - cian, in promoting a concert He showed how a man at Olmos Bharmacy. Troilo on ; Jimmy Fuller You continually read the line gan faced his dwindling days last summer which was held for should take his leave of this A former music columnist on and dobro; and in newspaper obituaries which with a grit that left his friends the sole purpose of raising fu - earth. With dignity and stupen - for the San Antonio Light, and Young on vocals and acoustic describes the deceased as and loved ones in a state of neral expense funds in ad - dous courage. a tireless performer and creator guitar. having left this earth only after awe. vance. Young CD Show of new and crisply crafted Kevin Lewis plays bass and “a courageous battle with can - John died May 16 from “I’m not really afraid of With his band Young and music lyrics and melodies, Sergio Lara plays nylon string cer.” fourth stage colon cancer in the dying,” John told us. “But I’m Restless, singer-songwriter Young is proud of this new guitar along with Meyers’ vox home of his first wife, Denise. not particularly fond of the pain Ron Young will celebrate re - product, and rightly so. organ on the Christmas song, The two had reunited during that seems to go along with it.” lease of his new cd Under the While toiling in the Nashville and it is highly probable that John’s illness, and both agreed He didn’t whimper and Texas Radar with a show and music mill for a number of some of these guys will be on that the obituary would list whine, and he accepted the party from 6 until 9 p.m. July 8 years, Young wrote a lot of ma - hand for the cd party. Denise as the surviving wife. conglomeration of bags, tubes, terial recorded by others. But Remember Tammi? “The circle has been com - and chemo ports which were to the 15 originals he has on San Antonio sax great pleted,” John Morgan said. be his lot over those last sad Under The Texas Radar are all Bobby Rey wants to know if “And I am at peace with my days. his, including his catchy Christ - anyone remembers Tammi Higher Power.” John bought and paid for mas ditty Yuletide by the Pool - Scott, his ex-wife and onetime A onetime advertiser in Ac - his burial plot in the Boerne side which features Augie powerful female lead vocalist John Morgan tion when he was part of the Cemetery. Meyers on the vox organ. with the 1970s group Sweet In the recent case of Boerne Morgan Music Company family As his body wasted away, Young’s band for the record Tequila. resident John Morgan, the business in Boerne more than John Morgan taught us all release show will include Hank Better yet, Rey would like “courageous battle” description 20 years ago, John actively some valuable lessons with his Harrison on fiddle, , to find someone who might was a euphemism in the participated with his brother faith and courage and accept - and vocals; Mary Ann Cor - have recorded evidence of James, a San Antonio musi - ance of the inevitable. Ron Young nelius on upright bass; C.J.

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• 10 • Action Magazine, July 2012 which might contain Tammi’s attack in 1996, part of a lung up.” center staff and with participa - singing voice. was removed, she had bypass Live music is presented on tion by the Sahm family. “Her son has never heard surgery, and now she must Friday and Saturday nights. The center was funded in her sing,” Bobby Rey said. “And have extra oxygen, especially Nona’s was the name of 2011 by Margaret Moser and the possibility of finding a tape when she walks. To beat it all, Stefania’s bar and grill on the Michael Ann Coker with Jeff of Tammi singing is the dream she lost her voice, and singing old St. Mary’s Strip. Prior to tak - Smith. It is open from noon until for both of them.” was one of her great loves.” ing over Casbeers, she oper - 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sun - Tammi Scott and David Dee So if anyone has a tape of ated Stefania’s Country Italian days. were the lead vocalists for Vic - Tammi Scott’s voice, please on San Pedro and Dolores Del For more center informa - Tammi Scott tor Lopez and his band Sweet call Bobby or Esther Rey at Rio on the San Antonio River tion, call (210) 792-1312. Tammi’s once beautiful voice. Tequila. Bobby Rey played sax (210) 378-3979. Walk. Doug Sahm Patty Lou Bobby Rey explains that his in that outfit. Nona’s at Casbeers And belly dancing has al - Doug Sahm The Texas Music Coalition, former wife is in poor health, After Bobby and Tammi di - Stefania Baldesarelli has ways been a staple at Stefa - Located at 1017 E. Mul - with Jerry Bailey acting as and that she has an 18-year- vorced, she returned to Califor - the old Casbeers on Blanco nia’s clubs. She is a former berry, the center’s intent is to emcee, is hosting the TMC old adopted son who has never nia and married a man named Road back in the food and dancer and dance instructor collect, document, exhibit, pre - Songwriters Circle on the fourth heard her sing. Mike who joined her in adopting music business. who has never gotten away serve and interpret South Wednesday of every month at Rey and his current wife Es - a boy who has since grown into Now known as Nona’s at from the craft. Texas music and music related Patty Lou’s Red Baron Pub and ther are close friends with a young man. Casbeers, the iconic joint fea - Sahm Featured art and history. Grilll. Tammi, a California resident, “Throughout the years, tures Italian food with servings The South Texas Popular The Sahm exhibit, which will Patty Lou’s Red Baron is lo - and the Reys have started a Tammi has experienced many at both lunch and dinner. Culture Center opened last be displayed through July, in - cated at 914 Burr Road adja - search which they hope will physical challenges,” Rey said. “It’s been slow going for a month with an exhibit titled cludes photos, posters, articles, cent to Fort Sam Houston, and turn up a video or audio tape “She has remained upbeat while,” said Stefania, “but Texas Me: Doug Sahm’s San recordings, and other memora - the next gathering of songwrit - about it all. She suffered a heart bilia gathered by the culture things are beginning to pick Antonio Years. ers will be June 27. cont. pg 14 Advertising is worthless if you have nothing worth advertising

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• 12 • Action Magazine, July 2012 M Texcas mCusicl hieanviest raonginng fr om OSann M arcTos,o whemre he rbecorldeid namo ng Tturrinig bRedud Votlkaeert, ESarl Phooleo Balw l, Delbert McClinton to Augie Meyers are others, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Texas Bobby Arnold, John X Reed, Sarah lining up for a special music tribute to Tornados and Townes Van Zandt. Brown and Jon Hahn released its self-ti - San Antonino native musician Lucky Tomblin was also instrumental in starting tled debut album in 2003, followed by “In Tomlin. the Recording Technology Program at a Honky Tonk Mood” and “Red Hot from Proceeds from the September 2 Texas State University in San Marcos. Blue Rock”. The band’s latest, “Honky show--titled A Labor of Love, a Musical Many older San Antonians remember Tonk Merry Go Round,” was produced by Tribute Honoring Lucky Tomblin-- will Lucky when he drove a truck for Mission Lloyd Maines. benefit CASA (Court Appointed Special Ice Co., going on from there to earn a law Serving as emcees will be Dr. Gary Advocates) of Central Texas. degree and eventually winding up as a Hartman, Director of the Center for Texas Shawn Sahm, Terri Hendrix, Ponty successful plaintiff’s attorney. Music History at Texas State University, Bone, Lloyd Maines, Floyd Domino, and But his first love was music, and he and Dallas Wayne, Host of Outlaw Coun - many side act musicians from Austin and has never gotten away from it. try and Willie’s Roadhouse shows on San Antonio will also be on the bill. Tomblin first sang in public at the SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio. Lucky Tomblin The tribute will be at the Texas Music Grand Ole Opry show in San Antonio on Theater in San Marcos, located on the the same bill with Roger Miller, Little downtown square. A special VIP recep - Jimmy Dickens and Ray Price. Dynamic tion and early performance will be at 6 Records’ Abe Epstein signed him and his p.m. The main show starts at 7 p.m. first single, the folk-rock “On My Love,” Tickets are available at www.casacen - was a regional hit. tex.org. VIP tickets are $100. General ad - He played nightclubs and shared mission is $20. stages with such friends as Jackie King, The mission of CASA of Central Texas Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers and the West is to advocate for abused and neglected Side Horns. It was his old friend Sahm children in the court system by recruiting, who urged Tomblin to form a band. This training and supporting community volun - encouragement was the genesis for his teers. first band, Lucky 13, which performed at Tomblin, a San Antonio native, is a the Havana Jazz Festival in 2002. The bandleader, songwriter, filmmaker and band also recorded and endeared itself founder of Silver Star Entertainment. In to dance hall fans in Central Texas and the 80’s, Tomblin founded the legendary beyond. Fire Station Recording and Film Studio in The current Lucky Tomblin Band fea -

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Action Magazine, July 2012 • 13 Krayolas cont. “We were crappy as these years with wide- band’s first break came Sphinx Won’t Tell. The West Side Horns also realist in a world where hell on some numbers spread recognition is a in 1977 when they won music video for Road- record and play live few people are making then,” Hector Saldana valuable asset, accord- KTFM’s Battle of the runner was played on shows with the Kray- much money in the said, “but there were ing to Saldana, who Bands. The prize was MTV; the music video olas. music business. some instances when notes that the jazzy to go to Six Days and for Christmas Time Opening for the “Forget about main- we could be pretty in- new uniforms match play with Chuck Berry. was played on ABC- Krayolas last month at stream radio,” he said. credible. Looking back up with the original “Ronnie Branham TV’s America Rocks. Sam’s Burger Joint “They don’t want us. on it all now, as a 55- concept--a name let us play his discos Lead Guitarist Van was the two-man duo The Krayolas in that year-old guy, I can see taken, in part, from the back then, and Andy Baines has been with known as Little Wes- realm make no sense where we were spoiled colored kid crayons Stone put us in front of the Krayolas since the ley, comprised of Hec- at all. Mainstream brats who didn’t appre- which first sold under huge crowds, opening band’s inception. He tor’s two oldest sons, radio has always been ciate what we had. And the brand name Cray- for Vince Vance and provides harmony vo- Jason and Nick Sal- about the young musi- that’s why the band olas. the Valiants,” Hector cals. When the band dana. cians and their music. broke up. Our immatu- “I was a big fan on recalls. “That was also re-formed in 2007, Joe “They just popped in Old farts like us don’t fit rity. I believe we the Kinks back in those the year we recorded Sarli was on bass, on me at SXSW,” Hec- in. And if we are ever learned a lot from our days,” Saldana said. our first 45 record at while Hector played tor said. “I was going to make any se- mistakes, and I believe “So I changed Cray- Zaz Studios--All I Do is rhythm guitar and pro- amazed. They are re- rious money at this, it that we are as solid olas to read Krayolas Try and Sometime. vided lead vocals. Sarli ally good. I had never will have to be through now as we could pos- with the ‘K’, and we That was the birth of moved on to other seen them play.” our songs. Like getting sible be. The band is have been Krayolas our Tex-Mex Beatles things, and Hector as- Little Wesley’s one in a major movie better, our songs are ever since. Some peo- days.” sumed the bass guitar recording of the Everly or commercial or better, and we have ple love the name, This year, Saldana role. Brothers’ I’m Not Angry maybe a TV show. our heads screwed on some hate it, but it is says, marks the 30th Luvine Elias, the old has received satellite Hector toils daily as right.” one that isn’t easily for- anniversary of the pro of Royal Jesters radio airplay. senior music columnist That the Krayolas gotten.” band’s debut album-- fame, sings harmony Meanwhile, the for the Express and name has survived all Hector said the Kolored Music (Box vocals and plays both Krayolas carry on, News. He is a damned Indoor Records, 1982). and organ. recording and doing good writer and a real Smoking This album made David Saldana plays their Amazon and Sir- plus for the daily, but Allowed! several top 10 year- drums and supplies ius XM thing, and sell- his dark eyes probably ends lists, including harmony vocals. ing their hard copy cds don’t shine as brightly Trouser Press, CMJ On some shows, at outlets such as Hog when he is writing and Goldmine. The Benny Harp plays har- Wild Records in San about another’s music album delivered re- monica, and Benny Antonnio, Waterloo as they do when he is gional and college has worked on some Records in Austin, and behind a microphone radio hits Cry Cry, Krayolas records. Horn Surf Records in Cor- and rocking out with Laugh Laugh, Happy masters Louis Bustos pus Christi. his Mexican Beatles. Go Lucky and The and Al Gomez of The Hector Saldana is a

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