'I'm going to play that gig,' said Steve. It was a big venue, a place Steve had always wanted them to play, but they'd never been able to crack it. Then, four months after the shooting, Jimmy got news that the band were finally going to play the Fat Cat in Modesto, California. They made a point of taking a photograph of all four of them - including Steve - to each show. That was something he'll never forget.įor the next few months Jimmy's cousin filled in on bass. Gunshot wounds aren't like in the movies. Jimmy remembers the first time he visited Steve in hospital. Don't cancel it.' If Steve was going to get better he was going to need money, so they had better earn some. 'You know what? We're still going to make the gig. But within 10 minutes he changed his mind. 'So we're not going to make this show on Friday.'Īt the time, he had no idea how bad Steve was hurt. When Jimmy heard, he called their promoter and explained. It was probably a gang initiation: shoot someone. Nobody was too sure where the bullet came from, but it smashed Steve's sternum, passed close to his heart, hit his shoulder blade, ricocheted into his lungs, smashed a rib and passed out of his body. Then Steve got shot outside the AM PM convenience store where he worked. Jimmy felt that if they were going to be in a band it should be a cohesive unit. Jimmy wasn't sure Justin was the kind of guy who would ever hang out with them like you should when you're in a band. In the early days, the new drummer, Gringo, was businesslike but kind of distant. 'Why don't you sing your songs in Spanish?' Raul had said. It turned out they were both fans of the influential Argentinian rock band SodaStereo. For Jimmy Moreno it had started when he'd met singer and guitarist Raul Cadena. The Gitanos were part of a new wave of California bands - rock en Español - inspired by the success of Mexican rock bands like Mana and Cafe Tacuba. Drummer Justin's family had come here to California from England. Raul, Steve and Jimmy all came from Mexican families. The last one to join the line-up didn't actually speak Spanish.
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