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In one
of my more ignorant moves, I had acquired a fake I.D. in
Tijuana, Mexico when I was about 15, so I could get into
bars to play music. We were playing the Los Banos gig, which
was a small bar, and this was the first time I had tried to
use it. Needless to say, I got busted. Yes, busted. I looked
even younger than my age. The I.D. was so bad that anyone
looking at it would know it wasn't a real California drivers
license. The judge was lenient on me when I told him why I
had done it. He took the I.D. away, gave me a small fine
($35.00, I believe), then told me that I couldn't play at
that bar in the area where they served booze. So, here's
what I did: Directly behind the bandstand was an open area
where they stored all the delivered booze for the club. It
was, in fact, out of the serving area. I continued to play
the gig, but with a long guitar cord leading back off the
stage to a beer box in the back, where I would sit and play
guitar. I did this for the remaining week of the gig.
Somehow, I slipped through that one without getting in too
much trouble. It did end my phony I.D. days, that's for
sure.
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Willie
Stone (organ), Joe Torres (drums), Al Ward (sax and
lead vocal) & Israel Alvarado on bass and
trumpet. I was out of view with a 20'
cord in the back.
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I'd
sneak up to the back of the bandstand to find out
from Izzy what the next song would be, then head
back to my position, sitting on a couple of cases
of beer.
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