"Save the Gulf"

Where are all the "Save the Gulf" concerts?
Where are the T.V. Benefits with celebrities and musicians giving heart
felt speeches on the poor fishermen, wildlife, beaches, loss of income
and sabotaged gulf economy? These people (including our own government)
are so quick to help Haiti and other countries, but where are they now?

Via Michael Farris

YOU WANT TO GET MAD? We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, but now you get mad!

You didn’t get mad ...when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got ousted.

You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed..

You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden. You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city drown.

You didn’t get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn’t get mad when, using reconciliation; a trillion dollars of our tax dollars were redirected to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage which cost over 20 percent more for basically the same services that Medicare provides.

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark, and our debt hit the thirteen trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans… oh hell no.

AND NOW YOU’RE MAD !

Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? - Bryan Adams

To really love a woman
To understand her - you gotta know it deep inside
Hear every thought - see every dream
N' give her wings - when she wants to fly
Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman you tell her
that she's really wanted
When you love a woman you tell her that she's the one
she needs somebody to tell her
that it's gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever really
- really really ever loved a woman?

To really love a woman
Let her hold you -
til ya know how she needs to be touched
You've gotta breathe her - really taste her
Til you can feel her in your blood
N' when you can see your unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
you tell her that she's really wanted
When you love a woman you tell her that she's the one
she needs somebody to tell her
that you'll always be together
So tell me have you ever really -
really really ever loved a woman?

You got to give her some faith - hold her tight
A little tenderness - gotta treat her right
She will be there for you, takin' good care of you
Ya really gotta love your woman...

Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman
When you love a woman you tell her
that she's really wanted
When you love a woman you tell her that she's the one
she needs somebody to tell her
that it's gonna last forever
So tell me have you ever really
- really really ever loved a woman?

Just tell me have you ever really,
really, really, ever loved a woman? You got to tell me
Just tell me have you ever really,
really, really, ever loved a woman?

Message of love to my friend... Jack Trevino

We love and will dearly miss you my brother.
(RIP Jack Trevino 02-17-1960 - 11-04-2009)

What a gift it was to hold your hand and tell you, thank you and how much I love you towards the end. Your last smile as your eyes directed towards me, touched my soul profoundly in ways beyond words or images.

You lived your life with the message of love in your heart, devotion in your mind and your soul was as gentle as the smoke flowing through air from your burning incense. To love and to be loved was the muse to your karma.

As you placed your drum sticks down for the last time. The resonating hammering of your drum kit along with your heart, will now be forever miss by your family, friends and fans. I will hurt for your everything my brother.

We know as you hammer away on your drums for the Gods in the skies, your thunder will always be received with a smile... A Jack Trevino smile.

Long live Jack Trevino, The Voodoo Mojo Man!!


~Juan Carlos

Deliver it to me baby... Voodoo Mojo Man!!!

Yeah that line was meant for Jack and almost every time we played "Mary Jayne" live or rehearsal, I would look at him and smile. Jack paved the road for The Killing Floor for what it is today. I'll say it one more time. If it wasn't for Jack Trevino, there would be no Killing Floor period.

Jack was a true road warrior and would give you his all regardless, packed house or not. He never bitch about money or other bands sharing the bill with us. It was about the music done our way and capturing the audience even if it was one or two new fans a night... We made sure you would never forget us. Even our bad night were memorable...lol and I'm not kidding...

We loved to rehearse during our down time and we clashed, cried and experience being in the improvise zone, the magic honey, as we used to call it (very few times with Mary Jayne). Jack was relentless and he beat, played, squeezed tones out of his cymbals anything to grab your attention. At one time, he was thinking of setting his drums on fire and looking into his eyes, he wasn't joking...

So how do you box that power... You can't and he fell madly in love and God blessed him before his calling home. Every one has a story and Jack lived his life to the fullest and with no regrets... Jack's story is a love story the showed his devotion to his family first, his bands and his passion second. Family was glue to the village, as he would called it.

Ben of Electric Ocean, on his respects to Jack and very beautifully written, painted an image of Jack and thunder. Every time you hear thunder, its Jack sitting on his kit hammering away with or for the Gods... Think of Jack when you hear thunder. Oh yeah, he would always rain dance for us too...lol

You are one of kind my brother and we love you and cherish everything you brought to the table and you left a legacy behind.

Long Live Voodoo Mojo Man... "Jack Trevino"
~Juan Carlos & The Killing Floor

Here's an update on The Killing Floor

David Garza will be going back to school, so for that reason he has to retire from the band. His studies will demand much of his time and so, we wish David the best of luck and our blessing on whatever he does. We can't thank him enough for one of our busiest year The Killing Floor has ever experience.

Jango IS BACK!!! James "Jango" Sanchez will be taking over the bass duties with plenty of enthusiasm and fire and while still in school. He graduates on Dec. 17th, Jango will finish off the year with us and back to the studio we go in January...

Darren is back also on the keys... Friday was a very productive night for us and the first time in months since we've jammed with Darren. We wrote five new tunes after rehearsal... So yes he was greatly missed, and we are glad that he's back...

So here's the current line up for The Killing Floor

1. ~Juan Carlos Vocals and Guitar
2. Jango on Bass
3. Matt Wright on Drums
4. Darren Stansberry on Keyboards and pianos...
5. Roland Savverda on Drums and percussion

San Antonio top 10 bands

June 14, 10:55 PM

San Antonio Rock Music ExaminerDonna Ruch

The San Antonio top 10 bands according to your submissions are:

1. Tension Speak

2. The Killing Floor

3. Texas Trash

4. Ruben V

5. Snake Skin Prison

6.LIONHEART

7. High Risk

8. Step Aside

9. Dark Water

10. Nonexistence

Congratulations to these 10 bands and thank you to everyone who sent in their top ten list. .

With love, rock on San Antonio!

This was a surprise!! Thank you San Antonio for second place!!! ~Juan Carlos

A Gibson Strat w/Hendrix 's name on it?? Fucking sickening and wacky!! Where's the RPM meter? Jimi's rolling in his grave.

Why Gibson didn't make it a Flying -V with Hendrix style graphics, maybe with stickers instead to bring the cost down.. What's next a Fender Les Paul?? Shame on you too Gibson... You guys should know better... ~Juan Carlos

Gibson Unveils Strat-Style Jimi Hendrix Signature Line

ast week, Gibson quietly announced the development of a line of guitars with Jimi Hendrix's sister Janie Hendrix, who manages the Authentic Hendrix brand. In Gibson's online story, they call the guitar, "an entirely new and unprecedented Jimi Hendrix guitar model designed by the Authentic Hendrix and Gibson." Photos and details have now been released for the guitar packages, and it is not necessarily "entirely new." Instead, the models represent Gibson's first foray into the S-style guitar.

The combination of Gibson, Authentic Hendrix and the Strat comes on the heels of a March 2009 United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision that denied Fender a trademark to the generic Tele, Strat and P-Bass body styles. The new Authentic Hendrix guitars feature a slightly sharper headstock.

Authentic Hendrix's press release, posted to Music Radar this morning, includes photos and descriptions of three entry-level packages that will be released under the Jimi Hendrix name. The packages range from $229 to $449 and include extras like a practice amp, gig bag, t-shirt and budget-level fuzz pedal.

In Gibson's interview with Janie, she said that, "This is just the tip of iceberg. We want to have a whole line of Jimi-inspired instruments." With a lukewarm (at best) reaction from most of the online community, we're wondering which direction they're planning on taking future models. Initial comments suggest that while budget packages may have shelf appeal for youngsters, Gibson might have a harder time turning experienced players on to a Gibson-produced S-style.

Trademark status denied for fender body shapes

This is pure fucking greed on Fender... And yes I agree after soo many years... WTF Fender?? This IS good news for the guitar and guitar making community...~Juan Carlos

Trademark status denied for fender body shapes: trademark board calls Strat, Tele, and P-Bass "Generic": Fender management ponders appeal.

Music Trades • May, 2009 • FOREFRONT

FENDER MUSICAL Instruments' efforts to trademark the body shape outlines of its Stratocaster, Telecaster, and Precision bass models were rejected by the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in a decision handed down on March 25, 2009. The Board concluded that after more than 50 years in the market, the guitar body shapes had become generic because consumers did not solely associate them with the Fender brand.

The decision was the culmination of lengthy legal proceedings that date back to 2003, when Fender initially filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking trademark registration for the two-dimensional body shapes for the Strat, Tele, and P-Bass. Concerned that Fender might be granted the legal right to limit their product offerings, other guitar manufacturers banded together to oppose the application. A suit filed under the heading of Stuart Spector Designs, et al. v. Fender Musical Instruments Corp., was joined by manufacturers Jim Triggs Guitars, JS Technologies, Lakeland Musical Instruments, Levinson Musical Products, Michael Tobias Design, Peavey Electronics, Tom Anderson Guitar Works, Sadowsky Guitars, Saga Musical Instruments, Schecter Guitar Research, ESP Guitars, Tradition Guitars, U.S. Music Corp., Warmoth Guitars, and WD Music Products. The opposing guitar makers argued that in failing to legally police or protect its body shapes for 50 years, Fender had lost the fight to trademark them.

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Ronald Bienstock, senior partner at Bienstock & Michael, who argued the case said, "This case is an important victory for the guitar industry as a whole. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has prevented Fender from gaining a monopoly on these body shapes that have been used by hundreds of manufacturers for half a century." Fender management expressed disappointment with the ruling and is currently considering whether to appeal the decision. "We believed strongly that the evidence supported our arguments," said Bill Mendello, Fender CEO. "We disagree with the conclusions reached by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board."