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I just looked in wikipedia under Jaime Hernandez and found that yes indeed the bassist for Dr. Know, Ismael Hernadez is his younger bro!!!!

All I remember as a little child was Kyle Toucher talking to my Dad about music and Dr. Know playing loud at where we used to live in the middle of the Orange orchards in Santa Paula. He used to go on about music, the Misfits and my dad about Iggy Pops Raw Power and other music and how Kyle auditioned for Motley Crue once before they became famous. One of the Dr. Know songs contain the lyrics Oxnard land of the toilets or something like that.....I remember sneaking in what used to be my room and looking at their instruments and playing on the silver taped snare drum with the drum sticks imagining I was in a band....

A weird coincidence is James Bond..... Another friend at my dad's work was Stewart Jervell? I don't know if I spelled his name right but he bought the mint green car in an auction in one of the Rodger Moore era James Bond films and he used to drive it over to the abandoned place in the orange orchards where we used to live and where Stewart used to live before us, he was kind enough to let us stay there after he left because he talked to the landowners so that we could stay there. Little would they know there used to be a punk band who used to practice there and I feel like the neferaous asian villian in James Bonds first film Dr. No telling you this.

I don't know if they have anything to do with Agent Orange or Jodie Foster's Army but I do know that the surf gangs like to fight over the surf turf over there. If you are in the wrong waters you are going to be attacked as I witnessed one attack in front of a Silver Strand store where I used to work.

Incidently though I saw No Doubt before they hit it big in Oxnard and know a few people who partied with them once. An Oxnard band called the Ska Daddies opened for them and partied with them. I've been meaning to check them out but my sister turned me on to the 1st No Doubt Cd and heard they would be playing so I went to a little gathering of a concert in Oxnard with the Ska Daddies and No Doubt and let me tell you Gwen Stefani was extra cute in her shiny red dress and fishnets kicking up a storm on stage as I was singing along trying to keep up with her high notes! So there might be some interaction between bands from O.C. and Oxnard. This was before Big Bad Voodoo Daddy from Oxnard with their swing style made a semi hit in the States. So after No Doubt they were looking for other bands with similar sounds and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with their swing sound was on the go Daddy O!