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The night started with anxiety as four of Los Super Vatos waited for David to arrive from a gig with La Mafia. He had to go from Corpus to Houston and then to Dallas and then do the just under one hour ride to Denton. Texas had been experiencing some storms around the state that slowed down air traffic. As David finally arrived in Dallas we learned that I35 had a backed up traffic in Lewisville. So David and his ride were advised to take the back way around to Denton. We had a loose start time of 10:30pm but most bands don’t start at Rubber Gloves till 11:00pm.
At about 11:15pm I couldn’t stand the wait. So, I had brought my guitar and guitar rig just in case. I thought perhaps in an emergency I’d crank her up and do some kind of solo set…………well I did. And it was a blast. I hadn’t enjoyed masturbation so much in my entire life. Hey and no mess while 30 people watched me and stayed! I sang “El Jinete (The Horse Man) by Jose Alfredo Jimenez, A Horse Named Bill sung to the tune a Dixie (some off the wall lyric I found in a BC dressing room in Jeffrey Barnes’ handwriting), Gema (Javier Solis) and a wild metal grunge version of La Cucaracha and El Rancho Grande. I later brought up Nathan Smith to play a medley of a song called Cuando No Estas Con Migo and Guantanmera. No fault to Nate but, Guatanmera….well you know..you’ve heard it you’ve loved enough. It desperately needs to be put away for a while. Then Steve Salazar took his drum throne and Artie Villasenor came up. We were accompanied by Thad Bonduris on guitar and Jeffrey Barnes on fife and keyboards for a quickie arrangement of Walk Don’t Run by the Ventures. (Ironically the Ventures lead guitarist was playing the Hard Rock just 40 miles away at about that moment.) As David finally pulled in he said it sounded pretty bad ass and he didn’t want to interrupt it. But, he did and we were happy to get the show on. Although our show at Rubber Gloves was slower in attendance than our Silver Leaf night, it was still a rocker.
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