lupesnz
Registered: 01/20/08
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Share YOUR conjunto nightmare or horror Story!
Remember when the drummer forgot his entire supply of drumsticks? Or your drummer just did not show up and like a true, hard core conjunto warrior, you went on to play with a drummer anyway? Or the time the bajo player broke 3 strings before you were halfway through the polka and that was all he hed? Or, the accordionist forgot his accordion? Remember when your van broke on the way to gig in Laredo and there were no cell phones? Or when your lead singer forgot his song book and he can't sing without it? What was your most memorable moment or the moment you most want to forget, but no one will let you? How about your first gig or your next gig? Why not share your adventures with the Conjunto Warriors who have lived through it? Music is meant to be heard and stories are meant to be told. Here is your chance! Tell your story! We will share it in these pages with the world! Or, at least with those other hard core conjunto musicians who follow our pages. Que dice?
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lupesnz
Registered: 01/20/08
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Ok, since its my idea. How about I start? One Saturday, I decided to hitch on to a San Antonio's PAN AM Plaza gig with Conjunto Express. As we pulled out of Raymondville early one morning, we had stopped to pick up a bag of ice for our cold ones in the styrofoam box. As we pulled out, the trailer hitch Broke! We almost lost the trailer! So, it was unhitched and parked on the side of the road. Juan and I stayed there with the trailer while Polo and Ramon went back to Lyford to get it welded again. Luckily, Ramon knows how to weld! It took about an hour and a half. Juan and I just stood there on guard, I guess. Finally, the welders Polo and Ramon returned. Hitched on again, and left. Is that the end of the story? Of course, not!
This old Ford van was not finished yet! Somewhere between nowhere and Pleasanton on I 37, it ran out of gas! How can that happen? "Well," says Polo,"The gas gauge does not work! But I was sure we had the 2 tanks full!" Yes, we did but the tank fuel switch does not work! So, there we are again! Parked on the side of the road - appears to be out of gas! No, not really! We had a full tank but the tank switch did not work! Now what? Yes, we all had cell phones! Call Mr. Salazar at Pan Am - San anto! "We are not going to make it!" Since this is hill country, we were only about a mile away from a gas store and we didn't know about it! Some guy who say the sign on Conjunto Express's trailer that reads, "Puro Conjunto", he stopped by. He told he used to be the driver of Bernardo Y Su conjunto's bus so he understands our trouble. HE took one of us to get some gas! We put a few drops of gas into the carburator! The somehow started! We drove on for a mile, and there it was, the gas store!" We arrived at Pan Am Plaza a little late, but we got there! Un milagro! |
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MandoMejia
Registered: 10/09/08
Posts: 4
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When Gerardo Mejia was almost 15, y despues de que en una ocasion lo lleve a conocer a Ruben Vela, a La Lomita, almost every Sunday he like to hang there, we just have started to play and he like that there was 100% Conjunto,there Ruben de la Cruz gave him the first chance to play a polkita, not knowing if he was good or not, (Thank you Ruben). Well, that Sunday Gerardo insisted to my bro., his father, to take him there, my brother was tired and told him to ask his mother. Nobody was availabe and Gerardo insisted to much that his father, kind of angry told him, pues vete solo. He didn't know that Gerardo took the car keys, hecho la acordion al carro y vamonos........
When the police stopped him in Sullivan City, with no license or permit to drive they call the wrecker, they also suspected that the accordion was stolen, he had to play a little for them to show that it was his. Gerardo had no way to communicate with his father, and the wrecker driver was very Kind to give him a ride home after he left the car at his place.
That day for the love of Conjunto Music, Gerardo had his Conjunto Horror, He is now 17 y nos reimos cuando nos acordamos,
For his father was also a Horror to have to pay to get the car out le hubiera salido mas barato. This things only made him stonger for his love for the Conjunto Music, that's why Gerardo says that the accordion is MI PRIMER AMOR
Mando Mejia----------Gerardo Mejia y su Clica
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