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Letters ....................................................4
Sam Kindrick...........................................6
Everybody’s Somebody..........................9
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Volume 40 • Number 4
• FEATURE •
Action Magazine 40th Anniversary..........3
Action Magazine, April 2015 • 3 •
Readers loved Bandido article
The cover article last
month on San Antonio
Bandidos founder Royce
Showalter resulted in an
avalanche of facebook
posts and email letters.
We will list names of
some who contacted us,
complete with their email
or facebook messages.
The first message is
significant in that it comes
from the daughter of the
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bers, founding father of
the national Bandidos Motorcycle Club which he
started in Houston.
Don’s daughter directed her facebook post
to Showalter in comments
she sent to us.
Her observations and
numerous others are as
follows:
Thank you, my blue
eyed
sweetie. I know how much
you loved my father Don
“Mother” Chambers. 3-41996 marked 49 years
since he founded the Bandidos MC.
Great story! I love this
article.
Donna Lee Chambers-Reifschneider
•••
Of equal significance
was a letter I received
from Royce Showalter’s
son, Royce Showalter IV.
Here is what Royce
number 4 had to say:
Mr Kindrick, I would like
to thank you for the article
on my father. We are not
on the best of terms and
don't see eye to eye on
much. Truth be told we
haven’t spoken face to
face in over 10 yrs. Your
article was a great thing
for my father and for some
people to have an understanding of his life, the
outlaw biker lifestyle to the
hilt. I have a ton of respect
for you as a professional
writer and a man for sitting
down with the old grouch.
Thank you. He is a man of
honor, and always well respected by his peers for
his word being golden.
Sad thing was, it didnt
hold water when told to his
teenage son. I wish him
the best with his second
15 minutes of fame , and
wish you the best for being
a good man and letting
the old coot shine one last
time. Thank you sir
Royce Showalter IV
•••
Wow! Great, rich,
evocative writing (as
usual). Thanks for sharing
this, Sam.
Chris Duel
•••
You continue to expand
the vocabulary of your
readers. The daily paper
journalists don’t care if
they do.
Reading your Royce
article, all the back stories
came to mind while you
played out his life story.
With love and admiration.
Ixa Rodriguez
•••
Yup...Nice piece...R.I.P.
to all ye who rode over...
Eddie Roberts
•••
Ain’t got the words...but
as I read, my mind found
old lost memories that
were vivid and stirring,
complete with all the
senses...each turn of a
page had its own moods,
music and colors, the
names of people I once
knew and the events you
brought to life once again.
This was a great tribute
to a good man and some
of his stand up compadres. I was most impressed with the love and
respect ole Royce still has
for his deceased brothers...I know that feeling
well, as only a combat vet
can know.
Hank Samples
•••
Great read. Thanks.
David Rubin
•••
Now who would cover a
story like Royce’s if not for
Sam Kindrick?
Thanks, Sam!
Rachel D. Beissner
•••
San
Antonio
history...it’s a part of all of
us who have lived and
loved our city for all or
most of our lives.Thanks
for your story, Sam, and
for filling in the parts and
pieces of some of the
characters, events, and
places known by me and
my family for many years.
Patti Witten
•••
Thanks for everything.
Royce Showalter is a
good man, a great friend
who always has a kind
word, a fabulous smile,
and a helluva story.
Georgie
San Antonio Bandidos founder
Royce Showalter
•••
Terrific article. Thanks.
Priest Kemper
•••
Sam, I am glad I became a fan of yours many
years ago. You never let
me down, telling stories
nobody else has the balls
to tell...and really keeping
it real.
Debbie (The Deb)
Walczyk
•••
I’ve never seen the
kinder side of any Bandidos, just the ugly side
when in 1975 some of
them beat up a friend of
mine for no reason...and
the drug dealer on the corner of my street.
However, it was a wellwritten article.
Gene Stray
•••
Nice piece about a
good guy. Thanks, Sam.
Jack Stanley
•••
Great read. Thank you
so much for sharing it on
fb. Enjoyed it so much I
read it twice. Thanks for
the memories.
Sarah Taylor
•••
Great article. I worked
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Planning a live music concert like the one I
have coming up this month is a gut-wrenching form of
self torture.
I have a number of longtime musician friends
coming to play Action Magazine’s 40th Anniversary and
Music Extravaganza at Texas Pride Barbecue on Sunday, April 12. Almost every picker who will take our
stage has been a cover feature in Action Magazine.
Unfortunately, there are hundreds more
great musicians who will not be a part of the show
simply because of space and time limitations, plus
the fact that I had no way of contacting many of
them. I wish every single one of them could be on
the big stage at Texas Pride.
Those on the upcoming schedule range in age
from teenage sensation Victoria Celestine to 80-yearold legend Johnny Bush. Our anniversary show will feature an eclectic mix of Texas music, including the blues
of Jimmy Spacek and Laurabell, and the Hispanic flavors of The West Side Horns.
Driven by both Spanish and German music influences, the incomparable Joe King Carrasco will blow
this audience away with a conjunto flavored style of rock
and roll never before equaled by a gringo musician.
Most people don’t know it, but his real name is Joe
Teutsch--as German as is the name Augie Meyers. And
it is no coincidence that Joe King and Augie honed their
chops together in such magical, clandestine, and cutting edge Tex-Mex inner sanctums as the Joey Lopez
ZAZ Studios deep in the West Side of San Antonio.
Augie Meyers is an internationally-recognized superstar, having toured the world with the
hit-producing Sir Douglas Quintet, and more recently the Texas Tornados. He won a Grammy with
Bob Dylan, and his name is gold today on the
streets of San Antonio.
Augie is a close friend. It was at Augie’s old
farm house in Bulverde that I first met Leon Russell,
who was sitting on some rusty old bed springs feeding
bread crumbs to a rooster. And it was first through Augie
that I met Doug Sahm, another old friend who would be
on our anniversary show if he were alive today.
Augie was at my wedding on 7/7/7, and he will
emcee Action Magazine’s 40th Anniversary and Music
• 6 • Action Magazine, April 2015
Extravaganza. I didn’t ask him to emcee this marathon
gig. He just told me he was going to do it.
It is also significant to note that some of country
music’s true living legends will be on our forthcoming
concert bill. Names like Johnny Bush, Darrell McCall,
and Johnny Rodriguez have topped the country music
charts time and time again. I consider them all friends.
Interestingly, we have two of the three surviving members of the late Ray Price’s original
Cherokee Cowboys Band on the Action Magazine
show. Johnny Bush was Price’s drummer, McCall
was the bass player, and Willie Nelson was the lead
guitar. I wish Willie could be here for the anniversary
show. I didn’t know how to personally contact him,
but I passed the word to some of his closest friends
that he would certainly be welcome. I am aware that
Willie is now a world renown megastar, and his
schedule must be daunting.
I have always considered Nelson to be the
greatest songwriter who ever lived. He headlined my
World Championship Menudo Cookoff when I was still
with the newspaper. When I got fired at the Express and
News in the late 1970s, I crawled on Willie’s tour bus
and never looked back. And he was the cover feature in
the first issue of Action Magazine on March 1, 1975.
I go way back with all of these guys.
Darrell McCall and I were especially close
when he and Mona lived in San Antonio back in the
1980s. I hung out at their home a lot, and we now maintain contact via facebook. The McCalls now live near
Brady in McCullough County where Darrell and Mona
both record on the Heart of Texas record label.
There is a natural tremolo in Darrell’s voice. I
consider him to be one of the greatest vocalists who
ever lived.
My love and admiration for Johnny Bush is
without bounds. Bush and my late friend Gary Stewart were true kings of the drinking song, but Bush
took it a lot further than Whisky River, There Stands
The Glass, and Jim, Jack, and Rose.
Along with McCall, I consider Bush one of the
country’s top singers and songwriters. And I was there
when a horrible affliction called spasmodic dysphonia
shut his soaring tenor voice down to a rasping squeak.
With Dr. Blake Simpson and botox injections in
his throat, John has made a miraculous and gutsy
comeback.
And it seems like only yesterday that I wrote the
first article about Johnny Rodriguez ever printed. I was
still at the Express and News back there in the 1970s
when Happy Shahan and Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson summoned me to a room in the El Tropicano Hotel
to meet who they characterized as the “next country
music star.”
Shahan and Jackson did all the talking.
Johnny didn’t say two words, as he was fresh out
of jail where he had been incarcerated for stealing
a goat. This made a good hook for the article, and
Rodriguez swears to this day that, if not for me, nobody in the world would ever have known that he
was a onetime goat thief.
What it really amounted to was Johnny
and some other kids grabbing a goat for a barbecue, but the “goat rustler” story took wings, and I
have been closely connected with Johnny Rod
ever since. He’s my friend.
Kinky Friedman is another old friend who I consider to be a genius in disguise. I trust him, I believe in
him, and his true love for animals is the reason I decided
that all gate donations at the anniversary concert would
go to the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch Kinky founded.
How could I ever forget that momentous day
that Anita Anderson invited me to bring Friedman up for
her noon show on KENS-TV, a conservative show
watched intently by the retired military community of
San Antonio.
Kinky carried his guitar, but little did anyone dream what he would do with it until show
host Anita Anderson invited him to sing a number.
That was when, without warning, he cut loose
with his unforgettable song They Ain’t Making Jews
Like Jesus Anymore.
The FCC all but unplugged KENS-TV over that
one, and Kinky and I were never invited back. But he
promises to sing that song one more time at the Action
Magazine 40th Anniversary and Music Extravaganza.
It will all be one hell of a show, folks. Don’t
miss it.
Action’s big 40th is ready to rip!
By Sam Kindrick
The big show is approaching fast, and Action
Magazine’s 40th Anniversary and Music Extravaganza promises to be
even bigger than first anticipated.
The music starts at
high noon on Sunday,
April 12, at Texas Pride
Barbecue’s big indoor-outdoor facility which is located on Loop 1604 South
in the Adkins area.
“This will most definitely be the biggest show
ever produced at Texas
Pride Barbecue,” said
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some name performers in
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doubt but that the music
will continue deep into the
night.”
Battling cancer, and still
trying to recover from a recent mini-stroke, the great
Fiddling Frenchie Burke
will be on hand for our anniversary show.
This is the word from
Roy Holley, whose KKYX
Talk About Texas show
has done a monster job in
helping to promote our anniversary concert.
“Frenchie isn’t able to
play,” Holley said, “but he
says he is having his wife
drive him out to the show.
He said to tell you he
wouldn’t miss it for anything.”
For me, personally, this
word on Frenchie is both
humbling and inspirational, for there isn’t a better person walking this
earth
than
Fiddling
Frenchie Burke. And no
greater showman ever
lived.
All proceeds from the
concert will go to the
Utopia Animal Rescue
Ranch in Medina County.
Minimum donations of $10
will be asked at the gate.
Hopefully there will be
some who will donate
more, since this is a real
benefit for some homeless
dogs and cats who need
the help.
We have musicians
coming from Nashville,
Tennessee to West Texas,
and the lineup of Texas
music legends and iconic
performers is enough to
boggle the mind. Most all
of them have been featured in Action cover articles over the past 40
years.
Some of the greatest
musicians who ever lived
have stepped up to help
us with this one, including
our anniversary concert
emcee Augie Meyers,
world renown for his work
with the old Sir Douglas
Quintet, currently The
Texas Tornados, various
other groups of his own,
and his Grammy Award
winning performance with
Bob Dylan.
“I remember when you
tried to sell me Action
Magazine for $500,” Augie
laughs. “I am just glad I
didn’t buy it. You have
helped a lot of musicians
through the years.”
Coming on stage with
Meyers for the upcoming
blast will be country music
legends who include
Johnny Bush, Darrell McCall, and Johnny Rodriguez. Author, recording
artist, and former gubernatorial and agriculture
commissioner candidate
Kinky Friedman will be
Continued on pg. 12
Augie Meyers (left) will emcee the big show. He is pictured here with old friend Fiddlin’ Frenchie Burke, who
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strokes. Frenchie isn’t able to play, but says he will be
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Her flagship operation
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which I named after my
daughter will have no live
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to bring a date. There
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Once married to San
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ending love for live country music.
“Greg has left the
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“but we had always
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DeMoore said she
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might be true. I fell into the
auto repair business with
no experience whatsoever. I drove a Yellow Cab
and sold Mexican dresses
on street corners and
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the side while getting my
first nightclub up and
going. It’s not that I haven’t
made mistakes along the
way, but failure has never
been an option.”
One of seven kids,
Dalia came to San Antonio from El Paso with her
mother, a pianist and
super sales lady who was
forced into the work force
as her husband’s health
declined. Dalia said her
dad passed on, while her
mother is 83 and still in
good health.
“Mom sold everything,” Dalia said. “Electrolux and Kirby vacuum
cleaners, furniture, and
cemetery property. She
did it all.”
Dalia
DeMoore
bankrolled a friend in the
auto repair shop business,
then wound up with the
shop when the man
walked out without notice.
“I didn’t have a clue,”
Dalia said. “But I learned
in a hurry. Now we have
two Dad’s Auto Repair
shops which are both successful operations. They
are working class friendly
and structured for both
men and women who
might be a little short of
cash. Customers bring
their own parts and oil if
they so choose and we
treat the customers like
they are family. A lot of my
women customers feel
safer and more comfortable because the shops
are female owned.”
Dalia’s kids are music
major Greg DeMoore Jr.,
who graduates in June
from Texas Lutheran College in Seguin with plans
to become a band director; Eric DeMoore, a fresh-
man at Judson High
School where he is taking
vocations courses to acquaint herself with the automotive business; and
28-year-old
daughter
Krystal, now a Wendy’s
general manager who is
getting her degree soon in
business.
“My hope is that she
will take over operation of
Krystal’s Cocktails,” Dalia
said. “It’s up to her.”
Dalia DeMoore confesses a lack of personal
musical talent, but emphasizes a talent for knowing
good music when she
hears it.
“I have a band rotation at Crazy D’s that
brings in customers,” she
said. “I have had Ace In
The Hole, the George
Strait band, and some
other solid draws. Bands I
book must come with a
following. I don’t care how
high they might be on the
music charts, if they don’t
bring people with them
then I can’t use them.”
Fredstock set
This year’s Annual
Fredstock Music Festival
at San Antonio College
will feature music by
Granvil Poynter, Ruben V,
Jimmy Spacek, Los #3
Dinners, and Eddie and
The All Nighters.
The free festival and
concert will be May 2 on
the SAC campus in the
parking lot at Courtland
Place and North Main Avenue.
Live music will run
from noon until 6 p.m.,
and visitors will be treated
to booths featuring arts
and crafts, and there will
be food trucks and vendors.
But the annual Fredstock project is far more
than just a concert and
festival; it is the culmination of a lot of hard work
within the San Antonio
College Music Business
Program, and a no-charge
demonstration of what the
program is capable of producing.
Donnie Meals is the
SAC faculty Music Business Program Coordinator who serves as the
festival organizer.
Says Meals: “Fredstock is hands-on training.
It’s part of the process that
our students will be doing
out there in the industry.”
He went on to say
that the students behind
Fredstock will get to perform music business
roles, from booking the
bands and vendors to
preparing stage logistics
and creating festival promotions.
Fredstock is named
for Fred Weiss, who
headed the Music Business Program at SAC for
more than 20 years.
Weiss, who died in 2008,
was a professor in the
radio/tv/film program at
the college.
Still ‘Restless’
Ron Young says the
Ron Young-Scott Gale
Band is no more, as he
has moved on to form a
duo with Patrick Joseph, a
former member of the
Krayolas. The duo will be
known as Young and
Restless, a name Young
has used in the past.
Young says he left
banjo man Scott Gale and
Jim Newell and Bob
Oroszi in order to concentrate more on his own material than on cover tunes
he found himself playing.
“I wish the other guys
well,” Young said, “but I
had to move on. I want to
play and sing more of my
own material.”
Gary memorial
A memorial gathering
for Gary Stebbins was
held last month at the last
of many nightclubs and
restaurants he founded-Texas 46 Restaurant and
Saloon in Spring Branch.
Gary’s ex-wife and
business partner, Kathy
Stebbins, organized the
memorial which featured
food, fellowship, and live
Texas music from a variety of musicians.
The
place
was
packed with Stebbins
friends and former customers, including at least
one potential buyer for a
place which has been for
sale since Stebbins’ February 20 death. The
property includes both
the restaurant and bar
and the Stebbins home
which sits directly behind
Texas 46.
Gary was 66.
Disposal of the business and property is
now in the hands of
Kathy Stebbins, and
when a sale is finalized,
you can read about it in
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Action Magazine, April 2015 • 11 •
Action’s 40th continued from page 7
George Chambers has a major part in the
upcoming Action Magazine anniversary
concert. A master musician and veteran
band leader, Chambers has selected the
musicians who will kick off our epic concert. We couldn’t pull this off without
George.
Come celebrate
April’s
Birthday
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and
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signing books in the audience and belting out unforgettable
anti-racist
numbers from the stage
which include They Ain’t
Making Jews Like Jesus
Anymore, and Asshole
From El Paso.
Also on the show will
be Joe King Carrasco, one
of the greatest entertainers ever to grace the cover
of Action Magazine. There
is only one Joe King, and
you must hear and see
this guy to believe it all.
And then there will be
appearances by such San
Antonio greats as George
Chambers, Ron Knuth,
Jimmy
Spacek,
Dub
Robinson and the Drugstore Cowboys, Claude
(Butch) Morgan, Randy
and Russell Toman, and
Martini Club owner and
super musician Wayne
Harper.
I wanted Action Magazine’s 40th party to be a
giant gathering of my
longtime musician friends
who have so generously
agreed to play this show. I
also wanted this celebration to be both beneficial
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and affordable for the loyal
readers and advertisers
who have stuck with Action Magazine since our
first issue on March 1,
1975.
Other Action Magazine
cover musicians scheduled to play the party include Geronimo Trevino,
Bonnie Lang with guitarist
Maurice Munter, teenage
wonder Victoria Celestine,
Hector Saldana and The
Krayolas, and blues belter
Laurabell with The West
Side Horns.Mona McCall
will be singing with husband Darrell, and possibly
T. Gosney Thornton,
Johnny
Santos,
and
Bubba and Patsy Brown
will make the lineup.
It is definitely going to
be a mad scramble, but
we are going to try to get
as many on stage as time
permits.
This show could not
happen without the tireless help I am receiving
from a bunch of selfless
individuals.
When I asked Texas
Pride owner Tony Talanco
early last winter about
holding an anniversary
show, he said when and
what time?
Tony is making it all
happen by turning the big
venue over to us for the
April 12 blowout, and this
includes the Texas Pride
sound system, stage, tables for VIP seating, indoor and outdoor seating,
mounted security, and
vendor booths.
Texas Pride is a familyowned operation with a
special vibe which some
of the other area music
hippodromes seem to
have lost through the
years.
Tony Talanco
has
worked shoulder to shoulder with wife Joni to build
Texas Pride into the
unique barbecue eatery
and live music center
which it is today. And it
was only natural that their
daughter Tara would develop into the sharp,
savvy, and youthful Texas
Pride manager that you
will now find running the
operation.
Texas Pride out on
southeast Loop 1604 has
literally become a destination point. It is a small city
under the lofty outdoor
roof which shades the big
pavilion and towering
stage area. There are gift
shops, a spacious childrens playground, antiques, a tattoo parlor, and
even a clothing boutique
for the perusal of natives
and tourists who come
from far and wide.
If we pull this show off
as planned, I will be thanking people for the rest of
my life, but there are some
who need thanking even
before the first downbeat
of the concert.
People like George
Chambers, Randy Toman,
Dub Robinson, Urban Urbano, Ron Knuth, and
Augie.
Chambers is a legend
in these parts, having
backed everyone from
Loretta Lynn to Willie and
most of the big country
names on this show.
And the first order of business when we started
planning this concert was
to enlist the
help of
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With Ron Knuth, our
fiddling and songwriting
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worked with the biggest
country stars in the business, Chambers agreed
to put the band together
which would kick the anniversary blast off with all
the needed pieces.
Urban Urbano called
up to play drums and donate his entire drum kit for
the use of every band who
takes the stage.
Randy Toman of the
Toman Brothers Band offered to play bass behind
anyone who might need
him from open to close.
And Toman and Dub
Robinson of the Drug
Store Cowboys indicated
that a possible reunion of
the original Drugstore
Cowboys Band might materialize on the anniversary stage.
That would be Dub,
Randy, and drummer
Robert (Cotton) Payne,
who will be playing a gig in
Seguin with Bill Anderson
the day of our show.
“It’s possible that we
may have Cotton over at
Texas Pride before the
night is over,” Dub said. “A
1970s Drugstore Cowboys reunion would be really cool.”
I didn’t ask Augie to
emcee the show. He just
told me he was going to
do it. Friends like Augie
are better than gold bricks
in the bank.
And I can’t overlook the
support from Hector Saldana and his Krayolas. I
was at thier first gig when
all
of
them
were
teenagers, and I have
watched Hector also develop into a talented music
and general assignments
reporter for the Express
and News.
Then there are the people who help me produce
Action Magazine on a
monthly basis.
My wife Sharon is the
editorial assistant who
uses her academic skills
as a longtime elementary
school teacher to proof
everything that goes into
the magazine, and no better proof reader ever existed.
Elise Taquino, our relatively new graphics design artist, has taken
Action Magazine to a new
level of eye-catching excellence. Her extraordinary talents may be
viewed on the cover of this
issue of Action. Not visible
is her work ethic. She is
faster than jugged lightning on a computer, and
she builds advertisements
with imagination and pinpoint accuracy.
Ronnie Reed has been
Action Magazine Skeleton Crew
our circulation man for
many years, and I have
managed to do most of
the rest--from writing articles, shooting photographs, and cleaning out
the toilet bowls.
I have been a dog lover
since childhood, and my
decision to turn all gate
proceeds for the concert
over to an animal rescue
outfit was a no-brainer.
Kinky
Friedman
founded the Utopia Animal
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Letters to the Editor
Continued from page 4
at the Lamp Post as a bartender in 78 and 79. The
only patrons were bandits
and SAPD--off duty of
course.
Woody Mayer
•••
Wow!
Christina Alvarado
•••
Wow! Amazing article.
You really can’t tell about
someone by external perceptions.
Daniel Burch
•••
What a great article.
What a gift you have, Sam.
I look forward to all of your
great words.
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•••
O.M.G. You blew me
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Royce. Way to go! It’s always cool to read you. I
love you, Sam Kindrick...
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•••
Awesome article
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Great article
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Awesome
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•••
Hey Sam, thanking you
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him
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us.....
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Rescue Ranch in 1998
along with Nancy (Cousin
Nancy) Parker-Simons
and her husband Tony Simons.
It’s a non-profit, no-kill
facility that houses mostly
stray dogs and some
cats on the Friedman
ranch located between
Kerrville and Medina.
“This is wonderful,”
said Cousin Nancy (that’s
what Kinky calls her).
“This couldn’t have come
at a better time for us. We
have a lot of animals, and
we do need the added
money the concert will
provide. We have dog
food bills, veterinary expenses, and just every-
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thing else that takes
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you and Roy Holley
enough. Roy has had us
on his radio program, and
the response has been
overwhelming. Needless
to say, Kinky is as thrilled
as I am.”
Friedman and I have
been friends for years,
and I once heard him say
that when he dies and
reaches Heaven, he truly
believes that every dog
and every cat he has ever
owned will be standing
there waiting for him.
Also related to our 40th
anniversary and Music
Extravaganza will be a
special Sam Kindrick and
Action Magazine exhibit
this month at the Texas
Popular Cultural Center
(Tex Pop) Mulberry Street
at Broadway.
Those responsible for
this little sidebar are Tex
Pop director Michael Ann
Coker and artist/photographer Neka Scarbrough
Jenkins.
Neka also restores old
photographs, and she has
enhanced and cleaned up
a total of 52 old Sam Kindrick photos for the exhibit, which will be from 2
through 5 p.m. on Sunday,
April 19.
Neka and her husband
Bruce will photograph the
upcoming concert, and a
bunch of those photos will
be added to the older stuff
in the Tex Pop exhibit.
There will also be a live
band with details on this
to be posted later.
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