What sort of stuff did you start out playing?
We started as a three-piece instrumental band doing The Ventures and Duane Eddy – me and my nephew Larry Borges and Robert Martinez, ?’s brother. But everybody kept asking, “Who sings in the band?”, so Robert said his brother could sing, so we got Rudy in. He sounded like Mick Jagger. He was always kind of a recluse but he was a great entertainer. He could dance like a girl and do the splits. I remember we were watching Shindig or Hullaballoo and The Dave Clark Five came on and they had a keyboard and we said, “Wow, that sounds really nice”, so we added a keyboard. We’re all Mexican, so we also had that Latin influence a little bit.