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Volume 41 • Number 8
• FEATURE •
Bret Mullins .............................................4
Action 41st ..............................................7
Harvey Rompel........................................8
Action Magazine, August 2016 • 3 •
Late starter Mullins a line dancer’s delight
The dream has materialized for Bret Mullins.
He was 40 years old
when he sang his first
country song on a public
stage nine years ago.
Now he has one of the
hottest country dance
bands in this part of Texas
with more and bigger
doors opening all the time.
“Sometimes I have
trouble even believing it,”
says Mullins, a 6-foot-3inch native of Grand
Prairie who now owns an
electric sign company in
San Antonio. “I’m living my
dream, and I wouldn’t be
where I am today without
the support I have had
from my loving wife Marlo
and a whole bunch of
friends.”
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Mullins has a strong
and distinctive vocal delivery that is a country line
dancer’s delight, and the
two cds he has released
so far are indicative of
some strong credentials.
He sings a Whisky
River duet with Johnny
Bush on his second and
recent release, an album
titled Long Live a Country
Song, and Mullins has
conjunto Tex-Mex icon
Flaco Jimenez playing on
both of his recordings. The
first one is titled A Good
Place To Be From.
“The first cd is more
classic country than anything else,” Mullins said.
“The second, I guess, is
more commercial. Singing
with Johnny Bush was a
highlight of my life, an incredible experience. Bush
wanted to do a rocking
version of his great tune
Whiskey River, and that’s
how we did it.”
Working with Bush and
Jimenez, hobnobbing with
the likes of recording great
John Anderson, and
recording with the highly
acclaimed Bobby Flores
and the super talented
Morales brothers at Studio
M in San Antonio, all
speaks volumes for Bret
Mullins and his Bret
Mullins Band.
And the Mullins credentials underwent a recent burnishing upgrade
when Bret signed with
Bobby Flores’s management company, R.D.
Music Productions.
Anyone who knows
anything about country
music knows that Bobby
Flores is a genius instrumentalist, a live wire pro-
moter, a mover and a
shaker and a teacher with
few peers. He is a visionary who worked for years
with country legend Ray
Price, and his Bulverde
Academy of Music is one
of a kind.
“Bobby approached me
about a management contract,” Mullins said. “I feel
really honored.”
Bret’s band was named
the best country band in
the 2015 San Antonio
Music Awards competition.
His sidemen bring
quality and experience to
the mix. They are Don
Sowersby on steel, Steven
James on lead guitar,
Bruce Hudson on bass,
and Kevin Cooley on
drums. Sowersby has
worked with both Johnny
Bush and Johnny Rodriguez.
The Bret Mullins Band
recently returned from a
country music festival in
Pontivy, France where
Mullins said the crowds
were unbelievable.
“They found us online,
and they put us all up for a
week,” Mullins said. “They
line dance to everything
over er there. They treated
us like rock stars. They
were playing our music in
all of the local restaurants.”
Bret says Bobby Flores
will facilitate a move from
small bar gigs to larger
venues, including festivals
and fairs. The bigger clubs
which now host the Bret
Mullins Band on a fairly
regular basis include the
Thirsty Horse and Cooter
Brown’s, both in San Antonio, and the 11th Street
Cowboy Bar in Bandera.
They play 11th Street on
August 13 and September
2.
Mullins has opened for
John Anderson and T.G.
Sheppard. He will open for
Little Big Town in October
at the Cattle Baron’s Gala
near Boerne, and in December, the Bret Mullins
Band will open for Reba
McEntire at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
Mullins has had some
breaks, and his obvious
singing talent has been a
magnate for a quality supporting cast. And for those
who might wonder why
Bret waited until age 40 to
break out his wares on a
public stage, let him tell
you.
“I guess I had other priorities in the past,” he said.
“It didn’t start happening
for me until I quit drinking
alcohol. My life started
turning around, and I am
now able to
realize my dream career. I
thank God for it all. It didn’t
happen until I sobered up.
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Warning!
Especially for ladies, women, girls, and any old
snuff queen who may (or may not) find the content of
this column to be objectionable, disturbing, or contrary
to publishing decency and what some refer to as “good
taste.”
We are getting ready to talk about the lower extremities of the male anatomy...and not just any old
male’s anatomy. This piece is about my own personal
plumbing equipment and the working order of certain
parts and passage ways that have been recently restored through a revolutionary new urology break
through known as the Rezüm procedure.
I warned you in advance, girls, so now is the
time for you to run for the hills. If some female word
jockey came at me with a column on pap smear technique or fallopian tube rearrangement, I would no doubt
bolt like a scalded cat. So brace yourselves, ladies, if
any of you are still hanging in. We are fixing to get
graphic and technical here with words like benign pro-
Dr. Chris Cantrill
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static hyperplasia, or BPH, the urinary curse which befalls about half of all men between the ages of 50 and
60.
I started noticing BPH symptoms when in my
late 30s, and the frequency of urination symptom associated with the condition gave early meaning to the
quote by American folklorist and newspaper columnist
J. Frank Dobie who said:
“It seems that I now spend half of my time trying
to remember my friends names and the other half of my
time pissing.”
The BPH (enlarged prostate) sufferer will readily recognize the symptoms that dogged me with increasing intensity for years: frequent and incomplete
urination, having to get up 3, 4, 5 and even 6 times a
night to use the urinal, weak streams and a dribbling
and inconsistent pee pattern that necessitated me
charting trips from my Bulverde home to San Antonio
with strategic restroom stops marked on my mental
map.
Then came the great revelation, and you had
best pay attention to me if you are a BPH sufferer. I
found the total solution in Dr. Chris Cantrill, a member
of Urology San Antonio, and the first doctor in the
United States to be approved by the Federal Drug Administration to perform the Rezüm procedure. And he
performed the first non-invasive Rezüm treatment in
2015, just one year ago.
The Rezüm procedure is not surgery. It is done
in a one-time out-patient office visit that entails water
vapor therapy. The enlarged prostate is pinching the
urethra and inhibiting the normal flow of urine from the
bladder. The bladder is never able to completely empty.
Water vapor therapy uses sterile steam to send a controlled burst of thermal energy directly into the prostate
tissues. The steam changes to water as it rushes
around the overgrown cells in the prostate. Heat is released that causes the cell walls to break down. The cell
stops functioning. The tissue shrinks and the prostate
obstruction is relieved.
An enlarged prostate shrinks down within a
couple of months to the size of a normal prostate, and
the patient is able to resume the bathroom functions of
a normal human being, giving special meaning to the
technical handle Rezüm.
It works, boys, and in the vernacular of a Junction, Texas cedar chopper, let me say now, without
reservation or
amendment, that I am now pissing like a young race
horse, and sleeping the nights through with one and
sometimes no nocturnal bathroom sleep interruptions.
I get up with new-found energy from the restful
sleep, and speed walk three miles almost every day be-
fore the sun gets too high in the sky.
At this point, let me say that I am now a double
winner with Urology San Antonio, the big urology treatment company here that boasts 32 providers across the
city.
Dr. Lewis Russell, a Urology San Antonio member who was my urologist even before he joined the network, is the doctor who got rid of the bladder cancer that
first hit me more than 26 years ago.
Hospital stay followed hospital stay as Russell
went through my urethra with the tools necessary to
scrape away the reoccurring tumors.
The bladder tumors were reappearing every
three or four months, and I had accepted the very real
possibility that this form of cancer would kill me.
Then it happened. Dr. Russell elected to administer a relatively new (at that time) form of bladder cancer treatment called Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG),
an
immunotherapy vaccine originally used to prevent tuberculosis.
In layman’s language, TB germs were poured
into my bladder through a catheter over a period of several weeks, effectively pissing off my immune system to
the point where it would allow entry of no more cancer
cells.
“It turned your cancer off like a water hydrant,”
Dr. Russell said.
And so it did. The BCG treatment started February 4, 2010, and I haven’t had a cancer since.
Doc Russell is the old pro, while Cantrill is the
younger version of a caring physician who knows what
he is doing and has the confidence to pull it off.
The Rezüm procedure only lasts about three
minutes after the sonograms and other prep work is
done. Cantrill goes into the prostate area with a needle
he uses to send bursts of steam into various parts of
the organ.
“You’re doing great,” he says with each injection.
It hurts. No big deal.
“You’re doing fine.”
For someone who has been roto-rootered
countless times with bladder scopes, scraping tools,
laser guns, and other penile intrusions, the Rezüm procedure was like a walk in Brackenridge Park.
No pain no gain, and what manner of pussy
with BPH would let three minutes of discomfort keep
him from receiving a medical gift like Rezüm?
If you are one of these people, call Urology San
Antonio at (210) 614-4544, and ask for Dr. Cantrill’s extension.
It will vastly improve your life.
Cranking up the engine for Action’s big 41st
Augie Meyers will play and emcee
By Sam Kindrick
George Chambers and
the Country Gentlemen
will open Action Magazine’s 41st Anniversary
and Music Extravaganza
October 2 at Texas Pride
Barbecue.
George gave us all a
heart scare in June, but all
is now well and a really big
show is shaping up.
We have a blockbuster
lineup, including Johnny
Rodriguez, Johnny Bush,
Darrell McCall, Augie
Meyers, Billy Mata and
counting.
Chambers opened last
year’s 40th at Texas Pride,
but a quadruple heart bypass operation in June
had put a second opening
performance in question.
No doubt about it now.
Chambers has made a
complete recovery, and
here is the forecast in his
own words:
“I will open the second
Action Magazine anniversary show and you can
bet on it. I wouldn’t miss it
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for anything. Last year’s
was a huge success, and
I’m predicting that the upcoming show will be even
bigger and better.”
Chambers opened the
40th and Johnny Rodriguez closed it. It was a
wonderful, delightful congregation of super talents
from San Antonio and this
part of Texas who came
together for a show of the
ages.
The energy is building
for a second Action Magazine anniversary show--an
event I wasn’t sure about
following our 40th anniversary blockbuster at
the covered hippodrome
near Adkins which is
Texas Pride.
Then I started hearing
the voices.
The first voice I heard
was that of Dub Robinson,
leader of the famed Drug
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“Let’s do it again,” said
Dub.
“I’m ready,” said Claude
Morgan.
“Of course,” said Augie
Meyers.
“Wouldn’t miss it for the
world,” said Johnny Bush.
“I was out of town and
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Old bar room brawler
sitting on a mountain
of barn yard antiques
Harvey Rompel sits in
the middle of a 10-acre
antique trove on San Antonio’s North Side that defies description.
For the better part of
eight decades, Rompel
has collected everything
from mule-drawn road
graders to Shirley Temple
dolls, and he has never
sold any of it.
“Felix Stehling offered
me $5-million cash for the
property and my thousands
of
antiques,”
Rompel said. “I had to turn
him down. ‘Hell, Felix, I
wouldn’t know what to do
or where to go if I sold the
place,’ I told him. And
that’s a mortal fact if there
ever was one.”
The late Felix Stehling
was the Taco Cabana
founder and nightclub tycoon
who left his native Fredericksburg in the 1950s to
open restaurants and
nightclubs in San Antonio,
one of his first ventures
being the Cross Winds
Nightclub near the airport.
Rompel said he first
met Stehling when he was
flipping hamburgers on
Austin Highway, even before Felix moved on to the
airport area.
The Rompel family
dairy was in the airport
area, and Stehling and
Rompel were friends for
years, although Rompel
recalls Felix barring him
from the Cross Winds for
fighting at one point in
time.
“I did a lot of drinking
and fighting back in those
days,” said Rompel, who
will turn 84 in October. “I
have breathing problems
now, and one of my knees
has about played out, but
I did my share of barroom
brawling. And it was after I
Mule-drawn road grader among hundreds
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beat the shit out of some
guy in the Cross Winds
that Felix asked me not to
come back.”
Rompel said his banishment lasted for about
two
months
before
Stehling invited him back.
“Felix was a businessman,” Harvey laughs. “He
realized how much beer I
was buying, and how little
money
my enemies were spending. He told me to come
on back.”
Rompel also worked
construction and owned a
few ice houses and drinking establishments of his
own.
He said he had a bar
called Rompelstiltskin’s.
Stehling was intrigued
by the unbelievable collection of ancient farm equipment
and
other
implements that both surround and crowd the exterior and interior of
Rompel’s
125-year-old
family home.
There are grown children around, and grandchildren are all over the
place.
“My grandfather was
August Rompel,” Harvey
said. “He built the house.
My father’s name was
Bruno. Our family business was Fairfield Dairy
on Nacogdoches Road.
Before we started bottling
and processing milk and
other dairy products, we
took it all to Knowlton
Creamery.”
Rompel said Felix
Stehling wanted to build a
private club on the homestead, keeping all of the
antiques and buildings intact.
“Felix had the $5-million and plenty more behind that, but I could never
sell the place,” Rompel
said. “Now a fourth generation of us is growing up
here.”
Harvey’s wife Juanita is
every bit the antique nut
that her husband is.
“It has been our life
hobby,” Juanita said. “We
Harvey Rompel displays ancient hooks for picking up piles of
nails.
have traveled everywhere
buying antiques.”
She proudly points to
an 1883 vinage electric refrigerator that belonged to
Harvey’s mother. Her col-
lection of Shirley Temple
dolls is priceless. And the
memorabilia that covers
the walls, floors, and even
the ceilings of her home is
mind-blowing.
The barbed wire collection stretches across the
ceilings, while there are
match box collections
along with an ancient dish
and vegetable washer.
This is an ancient hay baler
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Goodbye Trap
Frank Mueller has
closed his storied Trap
Lounge on San Antonio’s
South Side, and Action
Magazine has lost its oldest and longest running
advertiser.
Frank Mueller
“My health is the reason,” Mueller said. “I just
can’t continue on with
everything that is wrong
with me. I have a bad diabetic condition that has
worsened over the years. I
have a heart problem that
is approaching the critical
stage, and I have fourth
stage prostate cancer that
certainly isn’t helping my
situation. They tell me I
need more surgery, then
they tell me the surgery
would probably kill me. I
can’t run the bar anymore,
and I know I did the only
thing left. I’m just worn out.
I shut it down.”
The late John Cootey
and Larry Findley, two former San Antonio cops,
opened the Trap Lounge
at Southcross and Pecan
Valley Drive in 1974 with
Frank Mueller acting as
their manager.
A year later, in 1975,
Mueller bought Cootey
and Findley out, and that
was the year that Action
Magazine was born with
Harry Jersig’s Lone Star
Brewing Company occupying our back cover.
Frank Mueller became
one of our very first advertisers, and The Trap
Lounge quarter-page ad
has been an Action Magazine monthly staple for
the past 41 years.
Mueller’s Trap ads have
always featured a monthly
band schedule, but his
sometimes hair-raising
Frankly Speaking commentaries that followed
the bands have been
cause for a rabid Mueller
fan base that can never be
replaced.
Frank Mueller is the
most non-politically correct writer to ever put pen
to paper. He is ribald, outrageous, sometimes Xrated, keenly insightful,
and just self-deprecating
enough to keep the lynch
mobs away. He has consistently been one of the
major reader draws in Action Magazine. A Houston
ad agency once offered
Mueller a writing job on
the strength of his Action
Magazine literary gems.
He turned them down,
electing to stay with the
Trap and his loyal clientele.
Mueller just happens to
be one of the most talented writers we have
ever known. He is also
one of the best friends Ac-
tion Magazine has ever
had.
Frank is honest, upright, generous, loyal, and
kind. And he has always
had the balls to say what
he means and mean what
he says, and that usually
means fuck all of them
who don’t like it.
We will miss Frank
Mueller and his Trap
Lounge.
He is one of a kind.
Brenda’s memorial
Friends, family, and former nightclub customers
said a final goodbye last
month to Brenda Pamela
Boswell.
Benda Boswell
Cancer
claimed
Brenda in June, and her
final memorial service was
held last month at New
Way Bible Fellowship on
W.W. White Road.
Brenda was a benevolent nightclub owner and
soul singer who loved and
booked local musicians at
clubs that included Country On The Rocks and The
Pour House in Kirby.
It wasn’t planned as
such, but New Way Bible
Fellowship was a fitting
final earthly stop for
Brenda. The church is
housed in the old building
which was once the legendary Farmer’s Daughter, a San Antonio
showcase for the greatest
country musicians who
ever lived.
Some of us could feel
the spirit vibes of Bob
Wills, Loretta Lynn, Hank
Williams, Lefty Frizzell,
Dolly Parton, George
Jones, Willie Nelson,
Johnny Bush, and the
many other greats who
were fixtures at Bobby
Barker’s Farmer’s Daughter.
The building has been
divided by separating
walls since the Farmer’s
Daughter days of the
1960s and 1970s, but the
church stage provided
ample room for musicians
who came to honor
Brenda.
Brenda’s service was
presided over by Pastor
Ben Alexander, who donated his church at no
charge when approached
by Luke Burr Boswell,
Brenda’s son.
Food was donated by
friends, family, and fans.
Tribute music was provided by Mike Clancey,
Danny Zertouche, Diana
and Bob Boykin, Robert
(Rebel) Pourchot, and Liz
Jackson.
The Boykin couple are
divorced, and Bob is soon
to marry Liz Jackson, a
condition that had no
bearing on the moving
service.
Diana Boykin sang
Over The Rainbow. And
the other musicians joined
in on classic spirituals
such as Will The Circle Be
Unbroken, and Brenda’s
favorite, Peace In The Valley, which she sang on her
death bed.
And on the San Antonio scene, Susan Dinn
has announced on Facebook that she has taken
on Robert Demel as a
management associate in
her Sir Winston’s Pub on
Nacogdoches Road.
Help the kids
The 10th annual fund
raising rally by Guardians
of the Children will be August 27 from 10 a.m. until
8 p.m. at Helotes Fairgrounds in Helotes.
The Guardians of the
Children organization is a
501 (c)3 organization that
helps abused children referred from Child Safe.
This year’s fund raiser
will include music, vendors, refreshments, and a
raffle, first prize being a
2016 HD Dyna Low Rider
Special.
Raffle tickets are $10
each.
Club notes
Kim Magar is in the
process of selling her popular Shade Tree Saloon in
Spring Branch.
We hear the buyers are
from the Uvalde area, but
that’s about all we know at
this stage of the game.
The Shade Tree is a
popular biker hangout and
live music venue that has
always served good food.
Magar is famous for booking only the tops in live
music, and Shade Tree
denizens are hoping the
new people will keep the
live music program.
Robert Demel
Demel is a working musician with a good local
following, and he brings
management experience
to the Winston’s operation.
With his Band of Buds,
Demel has been working
recently at The Hangin’
Tree Saloon in Bracken,
and before that, he was
employed by Wayne
Harper to sing at the Martini club before Harper
sold the place.
At one time, Demel
was partnered with Dalia
Demoore in the Crazy D’s
operation on Nacogdoches, and after that he
and businessman Rick
Rice teamed up to open
the RAD Bar on Stone
Oak Parkway.
Crazy D’s later closed
after Demel and Demoore
parted company, and the
RAD Club shut down after
a mutual decision by Rice
and Demel.
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unable to play the first
one,” said ReBeca. “I’ll be
there for this one.”
“Well, old Sam, how
could we turn it down,”
said Darrell McCall.
ReBeca makes her first Action anniversary appearance this year. She
was out of the city for the 40th. Country music fans will recall her female lead with the San Antonio Rose Live series in the Aztec Theatre.
She will be backed by guitar master Kenny Penny, who once worked
in Jerry Reid’s band.
And wife Mona said “yes.”
The 40th (and very
first) anniversary show
was held in April 2015,
and it was a smashing
success despite torrential
morning rains that many
thought would wash us
out.
Texas Pride’s outdoor
dance area and elevated
Continued on pg. 14
Another great addition to this year’s anniversary show is western swing
band leader Billy Mata, a member of the Texas Western Swing Hall of
Fame, and recipient this year of the top western swing band award by
the Ameripolitan Music Awards. Mata was cited for his dogged adherence to the western swing style of Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan.
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stage are completely covered by a permanent roof,
but the flashing morning
lightning, crashing thunder, and heavy morning
downpours probably cut
last year’s attendance by
half. And still we had a
thousand or more through
the gates before the last
nighttime
performance
was capped by another
round
of
turbulent
weather.
Hopefully, we will have
drier and calmer weather
on Sunday, October 2,
and if that be the case, all
indications are we will
have a monster crowd.
“We had never had a
crowd like the one last
year,” said Texas Pride
owner Tony Talanco. “We
will be prepared to handle
an even bigger turnout this
year.”
Before Johnny Rodriguez closed down the
show last year, Texas
Pride’s bar was out of
beer.
“That won’t happen
again,” laughed Talanco.
“We will know what to look
for this year.”
Last year’s concert
went to benefit Kinky
Friedman’s animal rescue
ranch near Utopia with the
non-profit receiving a
check for just over
$10,000.
This year’s show will be
a benefit designed to restore the 1948 Texas Top
Hands Flexible tour bus
with an ultimate goal of
establishing and promoting a benevolent fund for
San Antonio musicians.
The bus has enormous
historical significance, and
an IRS exemption has
been granted to what will
be known as the Texas
Top Hands Band Historical Preservation Corporation.
Three members currently on the corporation
board are Texas Pride
owner Tony Talanco,
KKYX Radio personality
Roy Holley, and Texas Top
Hands Band leader Ray
Sczepanik, the last band
leader and current holder
of title to the bus.
When the bus is restored to running condition, it will be on public
display at fairs, rodeos,
and other outdoor events
across Texas.
“The bus will be our visible promotional tour for a
musicians
benevolent
fund which will be used to
provide medical expenses
for needy musicians, and
also for burial expenses
when the need is great,”
said Talanco. “We want the
old bus to promote this
benevolent fund where
ever it is seen. The bus
has an incredible history,
and Ray Sczepanik is
making it available for
restoration and public display. Roy Holley and I will
see to it that all donations
we can raise with the bus
will go into the fund for indigent musicians.”
For a fairly comprehensive list of musicians to
play the show, see our full
page ad in this issue of
Action.
Plans call for a noon
opening with a $15 gate
admission.
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