This story begins in 1978 when I was living in the Texas Hill Country (Bulverde, Texas) in a house next door to "Specht's Store", a very old and now famous café and honky tonk.

Augie Meyers', one of the founding members of the "Sir Douglas Quintet", "Lord August and the Visions of Light" and the "Texas Tornados" lived on a farm close enough that I could hit his house with a rock thrown from my front yard. Augie, like me has always played music and if he were not playing in some world famous group he would put together a not so famous group and continue to play.

I had the pleasure of working in some of those not so famous groups with Augie and loved every minute of it. He was also one of the few local artists that had his own bus. This was by no means a new bus or even a nice bus, but like Augie, it had a lot of soul and sure beat riding in a station wagon or van.

One particular gig I remember well was in Fredericksburg, Texas. That is about 50 or 60 miles from San Antonio and they really like their polka music over there. This particular performance was a wedding reception for one of Augie's uncles. I do not think it was the uncle's first wedding. It seems to me he was not a young man.   Read on...