My first question is, whatever happened to that great neon piano in oot Suit?
She’s still alive? She’s in her 90s, so she’s starting to feel her age. Going back before ‘Zoot Suit’: entertaining farm workers during a strike sounds as dangerous as hell. The real danger was during the grape strike. They didn’t trust us on both sides of the fence. Actors? Who are these people, clowns? And community people didn’t like it, either. I was beaten, I had a loaded gun pointed to my head, and I was jailed. Par for the course. On the road, we had all the hazards of cross-country driving in old vehicles. There were a couple of accidents. One van rolled over. A pickup truck accident down in Los Banos put people in the hospital. Playing the university campuses were less dangerous. In 1967, though, the country was on fire! We did our tour to New York, and played the Village Gate and then went to D.C. to play the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. The National Guard blocked us before we could get to Detroit. So we went into Chicago, one day before the riots. Even white peopl
