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Chasca ....................................................4
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You gotta be sick
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The album jacket says
Glam Up or Clam Up.
It’s an intro to the glam
rock band Chasca’s Bedtime for Bedlamites cd.
Chasca is a San Marcos aggregation of music
insanity practitioners that
is fronted by flute player
and lead vocalist J.T. Martin, the 39-year-old energy
explosion who is also the
vocal face of San Antonio’s recently revived and
reformed Heyoka.
Action visited Chasca
last month at the new Amp
Room on St. Mary’s
Street, an eclectic hangout owned by Todd Koym,
who has booked everyone
from Chasca to Ruben V.
Opening act was Texas
Microphone Massacre.
The Chasca show was
Rocky Horror revisited, a
wild assortment of boys
wearing lipstick, devil
masks, demons, dogs
howling at the moon, and
a robed lead singer with a
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per in a chicken pen. He
even rolls on the floor, and
if there were actually no
canine dogs on the
Chasca stage, we can testify that someone was
damn sure howling at the
moon or howling at something.
In addition to Martin,
Chasca includes Junior
Scott on bass and backup
vocals, Sean Hannon on
guitar, Wiley Koepp on
drums, and Brittany Paris
on keyboards, backup vocals, and percussion.
It is difficult to dredge
up enough rock culture
adjectives and puerile
platitudes to describe
Chasca, but Laura Gallardo of Austin’s KUTX FM
did a pretty good job of it
when she wrote:
A distinctive, outrageous blend of rock, glam
and cabaret fabulousness
that would make Minnelli
proud. Just kick up the
rock ‘n’ roll theatrics and
glam flair an extra notch.
It’s as if Dr. Frank N. Further possessed the show,
hijacked the mothership,
and hightailed it back to
transsexual Transylvania
with light speed fueled by
T. Rex, New York Dolls,
and a dash of Queen’s
soul fire.
The University Star
said: J.T. Martin can be
seen clad in high heels,
fishnets, underwear and a
corset as front man for the
San Marcos-based glam
rock band Chasca. During
his off hours, the self-proclaimed nerd said he
shies away from the glitter,
makeup and fanfare of his
alter ego, choosing more
low-key attire.
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described
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Since Facebook shit-canned my post on Obama and
the Tick Tock Kid, and in view of the recent horrors in
Paris, I have been re-examining the stance which got
me labeled a cretin and a racist by the bleeding hearts
who so vehemently objected to my use of the word “raghead.”
Obama invited the little clock builder to visit the White
House, and that just about says it all. The so-called
“clock” strongly resembled a homemade bomb, and
anybody who can’t see it has a serious brain problem.
Augie Meyers told me years ago: “Don’t take shit off
anybody.”
I have practiced adherence to Augie’s mantra for
years now, and some cold, hard facts have emerged
during the course of my re-examination which have
done nothing but solidify my feelings about the camel
people.
I will concede that every single Muslim is not out to
exterminate us, but how do we tell which ones are packing an AK-47 or have a fertilizer bomb wired to their
crotches?
It’s damn near enough to drive you into the Donald
Trump camp, for there are some statistics which cannot
be disputed.
Some Muslim statistics
The recent Paris shooters were Muslim.
The Charley Hebdo killers were Muslim.
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim,
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims.
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim.
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim.
The U.S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims.
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims.
The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims.
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims.
The Moscow Theater Attackers were Muslims.
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims.
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims.
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims.
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims.
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims.
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims.
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims.
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The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims.
The Kenyan U.S. Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims,
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims,
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims.
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims.
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims.a
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims.
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were
Muslims.
lim owned, operated, and dedicated to cutting the heads
off us infidels:
Isis, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, Al-Nusra,
Abu Sayyaf, Al-Badr, Muslim Brotherhood, Lashkar-eTaiba, Palestine Liberation Front, Ansaru, Jemaah Islamiyah, and Abdullah Azzam Brigades.
As squirrely as he sometimes appears, Donald
Trump has assumed Republican favored status simply
because America is sick of the politically correct jackasses who would turn our country into a safe haven for
people who would destroy us if the could.
A living problem
I say hooray for Sen. Ted Cruz, who plans to introduce legislation that would bar Syrian Muslim refugees
from entering the United States.
Cruz has said numerous times that Muslim refugees
from Syria should be resettled in majority Muslim countries in the Middle East while Christian migrants should
be allowed to enter the United States.
President Barack Hussein Obama has said it is
shameful to bar refugees based on religion.
“That’s not American,” the President said. “That’s not
who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion.”
Retorted Cruz:
“I’ll tell you what’s shameful is that the president after
seven years still refuses to utter the words radical Islamic terrorism and claims somehow that it’s a religious
test.”
My post that Facebook took down said, in part: They
make bombs with clocks and wires, and the little raghead bastard ought to have his ass kicked for taking his
ominous-looking little gadget to school.
It wound up with the prayer of Father Mychal Judge,
a New York Fire Department Chaplain who died in the
9/11/01 twin towers blood bath.
So how do you recognize a real Muslim threat?
If he walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like
a duck, and shits like a duck, he is almost certainly a
duck. And if there is a rag on his head, he could be a
dangerous duck who would be happy to chop off your
head.
Some other facts which I have noted include:
Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Atheists, Shintos, Baha’is, Confusions, and Jews have little trouble living with
one another, but there is a big problem when the Muslims attempt to live with any of these people.
The problem gets even bigger when the Muslims try
to live with fellow Muslims.
Muslims are not happy in Gaza, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria,
Lebanon, Nigeria, Kenya, or Sudan.
Muslims are happy in the U.S.A., England, Australia,
Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Canada and
Norway They are happy in almost every country that is
not Islamic.
The Muslims don’t blame Islam for their problems.
They blame the countries in which they are happy, and
they strive to change the countries they are happy in to
be like the countries they all came from where they were
date-eating miserable.
Infidels beware
Some say the Koran preaches peace and brotherhood; others say the Muslim good book instructs the believers to kill the infidels.
Am I supposed to believe that Islamic terror groups
are only a few extremist organizations who taint the
great majority of good guys with fabric head gear?
A few bad apples in a barrel of good ones.
Horse shit
Here is a list of terror groups I have found to be Mus-
Hooray for Ted Cruz
Chasca
continued
Chasca sound as a cross
between Queen, Jethro
Tull, Rob Zombie and At
The Drive-in, allowing as
how the theatrics might
overshadow the music.
And Martin told Action
that Freddie Mercury of
Queen is his greatest musical influence, so make
no mistake about the
band’s musical expertise.
These guys can really
play. It is the onstage monkey business that makes
you sometimes forget that
there are some real pickers in the bedlam mix.
Chasca has been playing throughout Central
Texas for a couple of
years, and the band has a
fanatic fan base.
They recently released
Barbarians, the follow-up
to their acclaimed debut
EP Bedtime for Bedlamites. Producer is Chris
(Frenchie) Smith at his
Bubble Studios in Austin
where he has cranked out
the works of bands like
The Darkness, Jet, Built to
Spill, and Meat Puppets.
The band has played
Austin joints such as Mohawk and Blackheart, and
they are getting well
known in Victoria and the
Valley.
Martin says he was attracted to glam rock because he loved the
opulence of it.
“Visually and aurally it
has both a grandeur and
dark humor to it that has
always resonated with
me,” Martin said. “To be
clear, when I talk about
glam rock as a genre, I exclusively mean the 1970s
wave. I, personally, am not
quite as enthusiastic
about the 1980s L.A. influ-
enced second wave of
glam rock bands. There is
some decent stuff there,
but when I say glam rock I
mean the 1970s first generation artists.”
When not performing,
Martin says, he works in a
San Marcos resale shop.
And when asked about
any other activities, his answers are about as spoofy
as his zany stage personna.
“I spend most of my
spare time at either the
nudist park in town or the
nudist coffee shop,” Martin
goes on. “I like to play nudist frisbee and nudist
chess and discuss nudist
ethical relativism while
drinking nudist chailattes.
I’m not nudist myself, too
giggly for that, but I do
enjoy being around naked
people. Mostly I like leering at them.”
Asked about his family,
Junior Scott
Martin’s answer to this
one was about as plausible as one might expect.
“My family loves the
band and comes to as
many shows as they can,”
Martin said. “They haven’t
been able to come and
see the band in a while
though. They’re all living in
one of those experimental
undersea colonies and
they don’t get topside too
often.”
And there is more, but
we will end it here.
Anyone who wouldn’t
enjoy Martin and his
Chasca experience is simply a person with cretin
characteristics and no appreciation for humor on
the shady side.
These guys are wild
and wooly and full of fleas,
and much more than a
simple hoot. We rate them
worthy of at least two
hoots and a holler, and
maybe even more.
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Action’s 41st?
After our blockbuster
blowout for Action Magazine’s 40th anniversary
last April, the natives are
getting restless.
Will we repeat with a
41st anniversary concert
this coming spring?
That’s the question we
are hearing from all quarters of the state, and the
possibility of another show
is being considered.
Texas Pride Barbecue
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he will make his big venue
available for another Action show in 2016 if we
give him the green light.
Now we need to find
out just how many people
really want another anniversary show, and in
what numbers we could
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Email us at [email protected], or snail
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Rodriguez recovers
following heart
scare
Country music star
Johnny Rodriguez is recovering from a heart condition that landed him in a
Corpus Christi hospital.
Johnny Rodriguez
“It wasn’t a heart attack,” Rodriguez said, “but
it was serious enough to
put me in a hospital with
all shows canceled until
the doctors figured out
what was wrong.”
Now fitted with a hightech exterior defibrillator,
Rodriguez said he has
suffered from an irregular
heartbeat since he was a
kid.
“I started getting really
short of breath in late October,” Johnny said. “I
knew something was bad
wrong. They flew me from
my home in South Texas
to M. D. Anderson Hospital
in Houston, and I was later
transferred to the hospital
in Corpus Christi.”
Reports of a heart attack and a diagnosis of
possible congestive heart
failure had the Johnny Rodriguez fan base in nearpanic mode when the
health scare first broke.
Rodriguez said his
heart was beating at twice
the normal rate when he
reached the hospital.
“It was definitely no
heart attack,” Rodrigues
told Action Magazine, “but
I have a heart condition
that has to be monitored,
and I won’t bullshit you or
anyone else about my
overall health. I have hepatitis B and early stage cirrhosis, and the doctors
have strongly suggested
that I stop smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol.”
Johnny said the defibrillator he has been fitted
with was not surgically implanted in his chest as has
been the customary procedure for years.
“I didn’t have any surgery,” Johnny said. “No
stints were put in. This defibrillator is brand new
high technology. It is only
inches long, and it hangs
around my neck like a
necklace. When my heartbeat gets out of synch, the
device zaps me, and that’s
when I know to take my
heart medicine.”
Rodriguez
hasn’t
played the San Antonio
area since he closed out
Action Magazine’s 40th
anniversary show at Texas
Pride Barbecue in April.
He was scheduled to
play a fund raiser for sheriff candidate Andy Lopez
at Texas Pride last month,
but this show was cancelled along with all other
Rodriguez dates which
have been put on indefinite hold.
“I was working on a
Christmas album,” Rodriguez said. “It’s really
going to be a good one,
but I guess I won’t be able
to release it for another
year.”
He does plan on resuming his singing and
touring career soon.
When we talked with
him by phone last month,
he promised a Christmas
visit with Action editorpublisher Sam Kindrick
and attorney Alan Brown.
He sounded really good,
upbeat and optimistic
about his future.
“I’m not out of it by a
long shot,” he said, “and
I’m still planning to ride a
horse 300 miles in 30
days from Laredo to
Houston starting January
15. It will be part of the
Wounded Warriors Benefit
Trail Ride.”
There will always be a
soft spot here for Johnny
Rodriguez, a likeable
super talent who, like us
and others, has pushed
the envelope further than
sanity might dictate.
The very first newspaper article ever written
about Johnny Rodriguez
was by Sam Kindrick in
the 1970s when the Action
publisher was a reporter
for the Express and News.
Alamo Village promoter
Happy Shahan and Texas
Ranger Joaquin Jackson
brought Rodriguez to San
Antonio from Brackettville
for the newspaper interview. And the ensuing article was the first detailed
account of Rodriguez
being jailed in Sabinal for
stealing a goat.
Johnny was picking a
guitar and singing in his
jail cell when the Texas
Ranger heard him. Recognizing the unbridled talent,
Jackson took Johnny from
jail to Alamo Village and
Shahan, and it was then
on to Nashville where one
country music hit after another propelled Johnny
Rodriguez to the zenith of
country music stardom.
The goat theft angle
was too good to pass up,
and Rodriguez has never
completely forgiven us for
the goat rustler brand that
he has worn for all these
years.
“If not for you,” Johnny
has always said, “nobody
would have ever heard of
that damned goat.”
The bare truth of the
matter is that Rodriguez
and some other kids had
swiped a goat they hoped
to barbecue. But instead
of grabbing a lowly range
goat that nobody would
have ever missed, they inadvertently snatched a
show billy’s expensive descendant.
Attorney Alan Brown
has long been a Rodriguez fan and friend,
and it was Brown who won
an acquittal for Rodriguez
in the 1999 murder trial
which
saw
Johnny
charged with killing a
drinking acquaintance in
the Rodriguez family
home in Sabinal.
It was touch and go for
Johnny Rodriguez during
those days of uncertainty
and depression. But there
has been one constant attribute in the troubled life
of Johnny Rodriguez:
The voice. It is as good
today as it was more than
40 years ago when he
walked out of that Sabinal
jail cell.
Vape and blues
Jimmy Spacek and
Gary
Wayne
Loper
teamed up for a super
blues
Saturday
last
month, marking the grand
opening of Randy Sterling’s third Thanks for Vaping store in San Antonio.
Jimmy Spacek
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Sterling himself is a
musician
who
once
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radio, and he is a personal
friend of Jeff Hamm, a
Spacek manager and
booking agent who was
also at the November 21
grand opening of the
newest Thanks for Vaping
store on Forum Pointe.
Customers drifted in
and out of the store all afternoon, stopping to sample barbecue and other
edibles, while some of the
best blues music we have
ever heard mixed and
mingled with the clouds of
scented e-cig vapors that
permeated the atmosphere.
Original plans had only
blues hoss Jimmy Spacek
scheduled to play the
opening from 2 until 4
p.m., but Thanks for Vaping
customers
were
treated to a double shot of
soulful lyrics blended with
some of the best guitar
blues licks to be found
anywhere.
While trading blues
licks on the twin electric
guitars, Spacek and Loper
were equally complimentary of each other.
“There is only one
Jimmy Spacek,” Loper
said.
Spacek answered by
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The classic rock band
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This is the relatively
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TReMMR will play Brooks
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Lead vocalist Talia Nye
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for The Stones or Aerosmith, but TReMMR is
what it is--an ass-kicking
party band which is comprised of four lawyers, an
accountant, and a member of the USAA work
force.
They kick out the stops
and peel paint off the walls
with rock-and-roll that includes new music and a
Mark Triesch
• 12 • Action Magazine, December 2015
cover list that stretches
from The Beatles to The
Animals.
Not much slow stuff
from this band.
“We are a party band,
okay,” Talia Nye said. “We
started partying among
ourselves four years ago
and the band sort of grew
from that.We are purely a
classic rock band. We first
called ourselves Jack and
the Modelos because we
loved to drink Jack
Daniels bourbon and
Modelo beer. We did two
gigs as Jack and the Modelos before we learned
that there was already a
Modelos band.”
TReMMR evolved from
some fertile imaginations
and a bent for improvisation, with the original five
TReMMR lead vocalist Talia Nye
Russell Voyles
TReMMR
continued
members of the group
using the first letter in their
first names.
They are:
Talia Nye.
Russell Voyles, drummer, a member of the
USAA family.
Rico Valdez, guitar and
keyboards; chief of the appellate division of the DA’s
office.
Lead guitarist Mark Triesch, an attorney who
works in a non-attorney
capacity for the city attorney’s office. He is a risk
analyst in the city’s claims
department.
Michael Siemer, the
rhythm
guitarist
and
backup vocalist, is an attorney who works in the
city attorney’s office.
That takes care of the
T, R, two Ms and the other
R.
“We put the little e in
the name simply because
we needed a vowel,”
laughs Talia Nye.
The bass player, John
Haddad, joined up after
the name had been made
official. He is in the accounting department of
the 7-11 fuel division, and
plans are to someday
work his name into the
title.
“Right now we call him
Little e,” Talia Nye laughs.
“We will get it worked out.”
Nye and lead guitarist
Mark Triesch are engaged
to be married in February,
an event which will follow
a failed marriage that led
to Talia writing songs on
the band’s demo record
which was produced and
engineered by Marius
(Bubba) Peron, one of the
best techs in the business.
One of Talia’s originals
is called Cougar Stroll.
“I wrote the song right
after I got divorced in
2012,” she recalls, “I went
really crazy after the divorce, dating a variety of
guys, many of them much
younger than me. I felt sort
of like a cougar on the
prowl.”
She also has originals
on the band’s play list titled Old News and Never
Too Old to Rock N’ Roll.
Talia’s powerful singing
pipes have been with her
since childhood, and she
lists Gladys Knight, known
by many as the “Empress
of Soul,” as her major influence.
“I was an army brat
who grew up all over the
country, listening mostly to
the old R&B and soul stuff.
Gladys Knight was my
idol,” Talia said.
Nye said she majored
in voice for one year at the
University of Texas at El
Paso, but dropped out to
join the Air Force.
“I couldn’t see myself
being an opera singer or a
voice teacher,” she said.
Michael Siemer
She served in the Air
Force for four years. She
became a television reporter with Channel 4,
and eventually there came
law school.
“I worked on KMOL
with Randy Beamer and
Deborah Daniels,” Nye
said. “Really a great experience and a lot of fun.”
She first signed on as a
DA prosecutor in 2006,
serving under former DA
Susan Reid until Reid’s recent defeat by Nico LaHood.
“I am a felony prosecutor in the district attorney’s
criminal trial division,” Nye
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TReMMR
continued
said. “I had a wonderful relationship with Susan
Reid, and the same goes
for Nico LaHood. Both of
my bosses supported my
love for singing and working with a band.”
“We
didn’t
start
TReMMR
as a commercial project,”
Nye said. “We just wanted
to have a lot of fun, but
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kept asking for us to perform, and I realized that
we have some really fine
musicians in the fold.”
The play list is awe inspiring. They do Hendrix,
Whitesnake,
Rolling
Stones, Creedence Clear
Water Revival, Pink,
Judas Priest, Janis Joplin,
Elvis, Eric Clapton, AC/DC
and Aerosmith, to name a
few.
They even do Johnny
Cash’s Folsom Prison
Blues, although guitarist
Michael Siemer says
country songs are played
sparingly.
“We have veered off
into a bit of Adele and
Jesse James pop material,” Talia Nye said, “but
our wheelhouse is classic
rock. That’s what we love,
that’s what we do best,
and that’s what we will
stick with.”
Scatter Shots
continued from page 11
saying, “I am a Gary
Wayne Loper fan for sure.”
A pioneer in the e-cig
retail business in San Antonio, Sterling called the
grand opening a big success.
Additional photos from
the event may be viewed
on the Everybody’s Somebody page in this issue of
Action Magazine.
Specht’s Store sells
Kate Mangold sold
Specht’s Store last month
to Bulverde resident Scott
Grundler, a former customer and longtime admirer of the historic
Bulverde landmark which
includes the remnants of a
1930s post office and an
old cotton gin.
Thurman Love had occupied the restaurant and
saloon on a lease-purchase arrangement, selling mostly barbecue for
about 17 months, but he
had turned the operation
back over to Mangold a
couple of months ago
when he failed to attract
investment capital he
needed to buy the place
outright.
Mangold said Grundler
bought both the business
and the property, and she
said the good news is that
he plans to restore
Specht’s Restaurant and
Saloon to the live music
and country food format
that was once so successful under her guidance.
“I am really excited
about the future of the
place,” Kate said. “Scott
was a customer who has
been coming to Specht’s
since the 1980s. He has
some big plans for the
place, and he is young
enough and energetic
enough to make it all hap-
many of the musicians
who
helped
make
Specht’s the live music
hangout that it was.”
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