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Volume 40 • Number 8
• FEATURE •
Heyoka ....................................................4
Guy Forsyth...........................................12
Action Magazine, August 2015 • 3 •
Spirit of Revelation was on 32-year hiatus
Today’s Heyoka band members are (left-right top)
J.T. Martin, David Alcocer, Gerardo Ramirez.
(l-r bottom) Val Mora and Dito Garcia
By Sam Kindrick
The band is back. No
question about it.
It’s been over 30 years,
but Heyoka still has the
old Lakota Sioux juju that
gets rock fans up and
moving.
With most of the core
members pushing 60, and
minus their beloved and
now deceased lead singer
and
lyricist
Michael
Grothues, the revamped
and revived modern-day
version of Heyoka acquitted itself in grand fashion
last month with a soul satisfying show at San Antonio’s Aztec Theater.
The old dogs were in
rare form, and close to
350 fans were howling
their approval as the storied band ripped through
their own material along
with some Jethro Tull covers.
Familiar faces on the
Aztec stage included the
Heyoka founders, bassist
Val Mora and guitarist Dito
Garcia. Also drummer
Gerardo Ramirez, who
has been the band’s percussion man since the
group’s beginning. And
Dave Alcocer, Heyoka’s
second guitarist who replaced original Heyoka
guitarist Dennis Bonnet.
The youngest, and
most unfamiliar face to
Heyoka disciples from the
1970s, is without a doubt
the most significant addition to the legendary
band.
Roy Holley
Host
Meet John Thomas
(J.T.) Martin, Heyoka’s
40ish new lead vocalist
and flute player who
shoulders the hefty load
left behind when Heyoka
front man Michael Paul
Grothues died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage
in May of 2012. Grothues
was 53 and the youngest
member of the original
band.
Also a flute player with
a rangy voice, J.T. Martin
has learned Grothues
songs with astonishing results, and his animated
and sky-high energy performance at the Aztec endeared him to Heyoka
lovers--both old and new.
“It is almost uncanny
how J.T. has picked up on
Michael’s material,” said
Heyoka co-founder and
guitarist Armando (Dito)
Garcia. “J.T. even looks
something like Grothues.
We all know there will
never be another Michael
Grothues, but J.T. Martin
is a unique talent in his
own right. He brings his
own brand of music to the
band, and I told him to
make Michael’s music his
own music when we play
original Heyoka tunes
from the seventies. There
is a chemistry there I can’t
really explain, but I am excited about our project.
Very excited.”
Martin truly shined on
that Aztec stage; he was
everything Garcia said he
was and more.
Now
backed
by
Michael
Muniz
and
Corazón Management,
there is no doubt that
Heyoka core members are
deadly serious about the
band’s resurrection.
In auditioning musicians for the lead vocals
job, they passed over the
likes of Tejano Grammy
winner Joe Posado and
some other good ones before finally deciding on J.T.
Martin.
Many of us can recall
the Heyoka magic of the
1970s. This was the Cinderella band of longhaired peyote native
American dream rockers
who many of us thought
were destined to become
mega stars from South
Texas. They opened for
Rush at Randy’s Rodeo,
and under the managerContinued on pg. 7
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I realize that the following column will address
what many might consider a delicate subject, and I just
ain’t really big on delicate subjects.
But here goes, delicate subject fans. Today we
write about Caitlyn (used to be Bruce) Jenner, onetime
U.S. decathlon champion who now feels more comfortable in a dress.
The key word here, folks, is “transgender.” The
Oxford Dictionary of the English Language defines
“transgender” as one with a gender “other than the biological one.”
All of which means that 6-foot-2 Caitlyn, with
shoulders an axe handle across, and a onetime designation as the greatest male athlete in the world, was
born a boy but now identifies “herself” as a woman.
Just call her Caitlyn
In a recent interview with ABC TV’s Diane
Sawyer, Bruce Jenner said the world can now just “call
me Caitlyn.”
He also told Sawyer that he is not gay, the inference being that newly reconfigured Caitlyn Jenner is
a woman, the proud recipient of tummy tucks, breast
augmentation, and hormonal beard suppressants,
among “other things.”
It’s the “other things,” either real or imagined,
that gives me the heebie-jeebies, and this is not meant
to disrespect Caitlyn.
My wife suggested that I try putting myself in
Caitlyn’s pumps, but I can’t even get close.
If someone were to call me Samantha, I can
honestly say that I would probably shit in my britches
on the spot.
As I struggle to grasp this Bruce-Caitlyn business, my favorite TV commercial immediately comes to
mind.
I’m talking about the Spurs-H.E.B. spot that features Manu Ginobili as what appears to be a Tibetan
monk, sitting cross-legged on the ground, and with a
long, wispy, gray, and obviously fake beard hanging all
the way down to his kneecaps.
Tony Parker and Kawi Leonard are also in the
commercial which centers on Ginobili extolling the spiritual connection between himself and Mother Earth.
He says something about “being one with the
earth” and he emphasizes his spiritual connection by
hugging the terra firma the best he can, prompting
Parker to say that his teammate in the lotus position has
been heavily into H.E.B. organic foods.
Don’t ask, my child
That’s when Kawi Leonard asks Ginobili:
“Where did you get that beard?”
Ginobili’s punchline directly connects me with
the Jenner business.
Manu tells Leonard:
“Do not ask questions, my child, that you are
not ready to have answered.”
Then he dismisses his young teammate by
ringing a little bell.
Ding Ding Ding
Maybe I should heed the admonishment, for a
country hick from Junction and Kimble County is illequipped to fathom the unfathomable, and a big old boy
in ladies undies on the cover of Vanity Fair comes under
the heading of “unfathomable” in my book.
Caitlyn Jenner was once a football player with
the Graceland Yellowjackets. Her fellow Yellowjackets
would no doubt be proud of those memories now that
Jenner has been awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage
Award for bounding out of the closet in such spectacular
fashion.
Caitlyn has scads of kids by three wives, and
her connection with the ridiculous Kardashian family
only adds to this bigger than reality human circus.
All of which brings me back to the most delicate
aspect of this delicate subject of sex change metamorphous, an unhealthy gingleweeds fascination with the
sexually weird which first manifested itself when I
viewed what was advertised to be a genuine hermaphrodite.
The dictionary defines hermaphrodite as a person having both male and female sex organs, not the
case with Caitlyn, but a confusing and impactful revelation for a 14-year-old country boy from Junction.
I do recall paying fifty cents to view this sexual
aberration in a carnival tent just outside the city limits of
Junction.
In retrospect, I have concluded that the wouldbe hermaphrodite was a fake, probably a female at birth
who was bamboozling carnival suckers with a springloaded little tallywhacker that popped out of skirt folds
just long enough to spark a nightmare inducing mental
illusion.
It was a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t sort of
thing, but traumatic enough to set a kid anguishing over
a question that this Jenner business seems to have
rekindled:
What public restroom would one of these folks
choose?
The surgeons who did it
I mention this only after researching the subject
by Googling up the two plastic surgeons who helped
transform Bruce into Caitlyn, doctors Gary J. Alter (his
real name) and Harrison H. Lee, with prestigious practices in New York and Los Angeles.
These doctors worked for an entire day over
Jenner, employing both facial and body feminization
techniques which included liposuction, tummy tuck, and
breast augmentation. But both physicians indicated that
no genital surgery was performed.
And both doctors said they are proud to have been involved.
“It was an honor,” said Dr. Alter. “This is a cultural milestone for transgender patients. This enables
other transgender patients to be better accepted and
enables society to better understand what they went
through.”
All of which is fine and good, but it still gnaws
on my mind. How can Caitlyn comfortably use a ladies
room while still sporting Bruce Jenner’s plumbing implements?
Then I recall those prophetic words of Manu the
H.E.B. monk:
“Do not ask questions, my child, which you are
not ready to have answered.”
I was an admirer of Bruce Jenner the olympic
idol, and I wish Caitlyn Jenner nothing but the best.
I’m also kind of proud of Caitlyn for hanging on
to her balls. They would come in mighy handy should
Caitlyn decide she wants to be Bruce again.
Women have long been afforded the luxury of
changing their minds without explanation, so anything
is possible.
Resurgent Heyoka rocked Aztec
Heyoka continued from page 4
ship of Bill Angelini, they
toured from Louisiana to
Montreal with opening
jobs for everyone from
Jethro Tull to Blue Oyster
Cult and Fort Worth blues
master Bugs Henderson.
Band co-founder Val
Mora dropped out of
Heyoka in 1977 for what
he called health reasons.
He was replaced on bass
by Pat Hood who recorded
songs with Grothues,
Ramirez, Garcia, and Alcocer until the band broke
up in 1983.
A double CD of these
songs has since been released in memory of the
late Grothues. It is titled
The Spirit of Revelation,
and it includes Heyoka
originals Thunderdreamer,
Wooden Birds, The Quest,
And The Pessimist Fled,
Metamorphosis, The Monotony
of
Change,
Change My Ways, Danger
Stranger, The Trilogy: 1
Restrictions, 2 Passage, 3
Revelations,
Taking
Notes/Feel It, It’s All
Gonna Be Alright, Video
Madness, and Disco Sux.
On his Facebook page,
guitarist Dito Garcia has
this to say about Heyoka
and the recording:
Back in the early seventies, a band was formed
in San Antonio, Texas that
has since gone down in
history as perhaps the
greatest unsigned band to
ever come from the State
of Texas.
Years of endless gigging, recording sessions,
and ultimately ending after
inner conflicts, changing
musical landscapes and
personal
tragedies,
Heyoka’s music has remained lost to the ravages
of time and has gained
mythical status amongst
the faithful and the serious
collectors.
Now, after more than
30 years since their original studio recordings,
ShroomAngel Productions
in
partnership
with
Heyoka, have finally delivered the most eagerly anticipated CD in Texas
music history. The original
studio recordings taken
from the master tapes and
digitally remastered for superior audio fidelity had
never been available before. Stunning. They had it
Val Mora
all--musicianship
(the
band featured two guitars,
singer/flautist, bass, keyboards and drums) with
chops, panache and great
tone, superb compositions, multiple rhythmic
changes and complex
chord progressions, and
above all they had tremendous spirit.
The music is very moving, and pays homage to
the plight of Native Americans and sheds light on
many injustices done to
them and to the common
everyday person. A political, spiritual, deeply humanitarian work, this CD
represents so many emotions, so much hard work
and hopes and dreams.
Heyoka was originally
born in the basement of
Val Mora’s parents’ home
when a 15-year-old Dito
Garcia joined Val to start a
musical journey that continues on today.
“I was into rhythm at
the time and Dito got a
guitar and a little amp,”
Mora recalls. “I think we
called our first little kid
band Mother West Wind.
We were growing up in St.
Luke’s Catholic School.
Homer Guerra started
with us on drums. ‘Homey
you gotta know me.’
Paula Thompson had a
big influence on us then.
She played acoustic guitar
and
sang.
Michael
Grothues joined us in junior school. He came up to
adjust my mic and before
we knew it he was singing
the Grand Funk song we
were doing. And Gerardo
was with us early. He has
stuck with the band from
the outset. One of the peripheral influences who
helped us get going was a
keyboard player named
Martin Garcia. He is the
one who introduced us to
Gerardo.”
So how did Heyoka
happen?
Dito and Val both agree
that Dito’s aunt Belia first
planted the Indian spirituality seed which eventually
grew and blossomed into
the band’s Lakota Sioux
concept, completely understood by only the
slightly weird band members and those slightly
weird people close to
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Play Dixie
On April 10th, 1865—
the day after Robert E.
Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S.Grant at
Appomattox—President
Lincoln came out on the
streets of Washington DC
to address a throng of
roughly 3,000 people who
had assembled to celebrate the news.
Lincoln had no prepared statement, but saw
that there was a band that
had joined the throng and
requested
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play
“Dixie” before they played
“Yankee Doodle.”
“I
have
always
thought `Dixie’ one of the
best tunes I have ever
heard,” Lincoln said.
And so it went:
Oh, I wish I was in the
land of cotton,
Old times there are not
forgotten.
Look away, look away,
look away Dixie Land!
In Dixie's Land,
where I was born,
early on one frosty
mornin'.
Look away, look away,
look away Dixie Land!
I wish I was in Dixie,
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie's Land I'll take
my stand,
to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down
south in Dixie!
south in Dixie!
There's buckwheat
cakes and Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little
fatter.
Look away! Look
away! Look away! Dixie
Land
Then hoe it down and
scratch your gravel,
To Dixie's Land I'm
bound to travel.
Look away! Look away!
Look away! Dixie Land
I wish I was in Dixie,
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie's Land I'll take
my stand,
to live and die in Dixie.
south in Dixie!
south in Dixie!
This song is not about
slavery. It’s a nostalgic refrain about a home we all
love so much, and there
were some sad anti-savery southerners who
watched their homes in
Atlanta burn to the
ground.
They can destroy the
Confederate battle flag
and monuments to the
civil war dead, but they
can never erase the music
of our history.
Dixie says it all.
Bandidos
Skip Hollandsworth,
the scribe who has become Texas Monthly’s
main man when it comes
to writing about outlaw
motorcycle gangs and the
Bandidos in particular,
has a post-Waco screed
in TM’s July issue which
adds very little to the other
stuff he has cranked out
on the subject.
If nothing else, Hollandsworth’s July article
serves to confirm one obvious and rather glaring
fact: He is scared shitless
of those outlaw bikers he
continues to lionize on the
pages of Texas Monthly
Magazine, and maybe for
just reason at that.
It wouldn’t be smart
for Hollandsworth or anyone else for that matter to
deliberately antagonize a
bunch of Harley hounds
who wear 1% patches on
their clothing, a reference
to their boast of being
99% badder than all other
bikers on the road today.
In his July TM article
Hollandsworth recalled
asking a San Antonio
Bandido named F.O. (as in
Fuck Off) why he participated in the seemingly
“silly” practice of wearing
all those patches while
riding with other bikers
wearing a like number of
“silly” garment adornments.
Fuck Off responded
to this question with silence and a menacing
glare,
causing
Hollandsworth to write: “I felt
something go cold in my
stomach. I realized I had
crossed a line that I didn’t
even know was there.”
Maybe Hollandsworth
knows it and maybe he
doesn’t, but his obvious
fear of the subjects of
which he writes is the very
quality which allows him
to get near enough to
safely write about them.
The Bandidos like
Hollandsworth’s adams
apple bobbing and boot
quaking demonstrations
of fear-induced respect.
He knows his place. He is
what they refer to as a “citizen” member of “polite
society,” and scaring the
shit out of these squares
is all part of the fun of
being a 1% outlaw.
Sauce honored
West Side Horns keyboard master Arturo
Sauce Gonzalez
was
honored last month as a
new inductee into the
Sleeping Giants fraternity
at the Sleeping Giants
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Restaurant on Fredericksburg Road.
Sauce Gonzalez
The mostly vintage
musicians who have been
accepted into the Sleeping Giants fold consider it
a huge honor, largely because they are voted into
the fraternity by peers
who they have worked
around for years.
Sauce Gonzales has
worked with the greats of
Chicano, soul, and some
country music, and he
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The Cove’s intimate
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percussionist Albanie Falleta, and accordionist and
horn player Oliver Steck.
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Hot Nut Riveters album
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Many San Antonio live
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upright bassist with Danny
Barnes and the Bad Livers
group which made its local
debut at Specht’s Store in
Bulverde back when Kate
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restaurant and saloon.
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resident of Austin before
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Wimberly who also bases
in New Orleans. But both
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time to tour with Forsyth’s
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racket is a stong, beautiful
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Of his band with members scattered from Austin
to Louisiana, Forsyth
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times, great music.”
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participating in a diversity
of projects. So I was pretty
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them.
Val, who now claims to
be a Buddhist, called Aunt
Belia a brujeria, a spirit
healer. Dito vividly recalls
her handing the two kids a
deck of Indian fortune
teller cards that had the
name Heyoka on the box.
“She took me under her
wing and showed me
some things,” Dito recalls.
“Very profound.”
So here it is, rock and
Heyoka fans, Indian spirituality and all, emblazoned for all to see on the
Heyoka album jacket,
which says: Heyoka refers
to the Lakota concept of a
contrarian, jester, satirist
or sacred clown. The idea
being that only through
the wisdom of the contrary
that a true seeker of
knowledge can ever even
aspire to approach the
true spirit of revelation.
Mora said that, under
the words Heyoka on the
deck of cards, was printed
The Revealing Spirit.
“Through our music,”
Mora said, “you can tap
into this innate life position
called Heyoka. It refers to
shamanistic rebels within
a society. We wanted to be
those shamanistic rebels.”
The group started calling the band Heyoka in
1973. Valentine Mora said
health reasons forced him
out of the band in 1977.
“We were staying up
late and going hard at it,”
Mora recalls. “I had
opened for Rush at age
19, and I was having trouble keeping my shit together. There was trendy
chemical amusement involved at the time, and
you might say that I finally
succumbed to physical exhaustion. At any rate, I
was actually relieved
when Pat Hood stepped in
as new bass player for the
band.”
Heyoka finally broke up
around 1983. After Mora
dropped out in 1977, and
following Dennis Bonnet’s
replacement at guitar by
Dave Alcocer, the group
continued on until the end
with Michael Grothues,
Dito Garcia, Patrick Hood,
Gerardo Ramirez, and Alcocer.
Only Mora and Gerardo Ramirez have kept
playing non-stop.
“I was really down
when I left the band,” Mora
said. “I was playing cover
stuff back then, fearing
that I would never again
be anything but a cover
musician. Now I work
doing creative stuff in a
band
called
Forever
Town.”
Drummer Ramirez has
worked with a number of
bands since the original
Heyoka broke up, including a hot bunch of rockers
who called themselves
Wolf Pak.
Dennis Bonnet, who
comprised
the
first
Heyoka guitar duo with
Dito Garcia, is now producing Christian music.
And Pat Hood, the Heyoka
bassist who took over
where Val Mora first left
off, declined when Ditto invited him to join the revamped group.
J.T. Martin, the new
lead vocalist, fronts a
band called
Chaska.
“It’s a real animated
stage band,” Mora said.
“J.T. Martin is something
else again.”
Val Mora said Heyoka
has been in his heart
since he and Dito first
hooked up in the basement of the Mora home.
“I agree with that,” Garcia said. “There have been
personal tragedies. Health
problems. I lost my wife
Valerie 12 years ago when
she died in a one-car accident near Medina Lake.
Had a tough time coming
back from that. And I know
Pat Hood has had some
debilitating health issues.
But I guess the fire to play
has always been with me.
I have kept playing from
time to time with the City
Church
Band.
And
Michael Grothues and I
were getting a little
acoustic thing going just
before his untimely death.”
And there are the
heady memories which
now seem to overshadow
the tragic ones.
Val Mora remembers
Heyoka band circa 1978 included
(left-right) Dito Garcia, Dennis Bonnet,
the late Michael Grothues, Gerardo Ramirez, and Pat Hood
when the band was playing Bill Angelini’s club Ball
It on Main Avenue, and
the day he asked Angelini
to manage Heyoka.
In an Express and
News article, Hector Saldana quoted Angelini as
saying, “These kids came
in and asked me to play.
They jammed the place
up. I heard them wailing
on Led Zeppelin and
Jethro Tull. They were really entertaining and very
good. They were Pink
Floyd-in-Texas kind of
guys. They dressed weird
and the girls liked them.”
Angelini jumped into it
and has never regretted
the experience. He soon
had them opening for
Sammy Hagar, Van Halen,
Head
East,
Be-Bop
Deluxe, Golden Earring,
Budgie, Trapeze and Rick
Derringer, to name only a
few. And Heyoka’s music
video for their song Video
Madness made it onto
MTV.
When I told legendary
rock promoter Jack Orbin
that I had a cover article
on Heyoka coming up,
Orbin said:
“I love those guys. They
are a band that really
should have made it but
didn’t quite get over the
hump. Like Ultra and
Emerald in San Antonio, I
think they were ahead of
their time musically. They
were progressive metal,
and that’s what exploded
out of San Antonio. They
were innovators at the
time.”
Dito Garcia said the reformed Heyoka started rehearsing every Sunday
last February.
“We have been rehearsing most original
Heyoka material,” Garcia
said, “but we were a tribute band before there
were tribute bands. We
have an endless catalogue of Tull, Pink Floyd,
Judas Priest, Rush, and
Queen. We used to do
medleys of all this music
and we could do Tull covers like no other. We have
opened for Judas Priest,
Electro Magnets, Bugs
Henderson, and Steppenwolf. We toured from
Louisiana all the way to
Montreal and back, and I
recall us opening for Survivor in Chicago. We have
a rich and colorful history.”
Garcia went on to marvel at how fast the magic
has started to return.
“Michael Grothues was
a lyrical genius,” Garcia
said. “I am amazed at how
well and how fast our
young lead vocalist and
flute player has managed
to absorb the material. I
am impressed and really
proud to be playing with
J.T. Martin.
“The band chemistry is
really starting to flow. The
fresh energy is beginning
to flow. It’s an intangible,
something we can feel as
we continue to morph into
our band Heyoka. We
thought long and hard before settling on a new lead
singer. We auditioned
some really good guys, including Joe Posada, a
Grammy winner who is really big in Tejano music.
He is also a flute player.”
Dito and his late wife
Valerie once operated a
beauty salon, and his
business of late has been
sharpening tools used in
the hair industry.
“I left the band in 81 or
82, and I think it finally
broke up in 83,” Garcia
said. “Seems like the guys
were going in different directions. Now I feel like an-
other music project with
the guys might work. We
have a proper management company now. I think
there is still an untapped
market out there for progressive rock music Texas
style. We still have some
partially finished songs
from the first band that we
can complete, and I know
some of the guys are
ready to start creating
some new music as well.
“I know there was
some drug use with the
old Heyoka, but I don’t remember anything really
excessive. And I don’t believe we have even one
user and abuser among
the current band. Young
J.T. doesn’t drink, smoke,
or use drugs. And the rest
of us seem to have moved
on.”
There has always been
an aura of mystery surrounding
this band.
Heyoka
wouldn’t
be
Heyoka without it. And the
late band guru and lead
singer Michael Grothues
may have encapsulated it
when he said: Revelation
exists in the roots of one’s
own mind--hidden within
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