In the 1970s, no band was more mystical on the local hard-rock and progressive-rock scene than Heyoka. In its heyday, the band was legendary. Its back story was a combination of American Indian ...

News of the sudden death of Michael Paul Grothues, the wailing singer, songwriter and musician who fronted San Antonio's long-haired '70s prog-rock gods Heyoka, was the double whammy of a sad weekend.

Val Mora will never forget the day he met David Alcocer. It was 1972, and both musicians (Mora plays bass; Alcocer plays guitar) had no clue their destinies would become intertwined in one of San ...