Pistoleros: Death, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll

[Plays Oct. 18 at its world premiere in Tempe, Ariz., simultaneous with a digital release on Vimeo; DVD and various digital platforms TBD.] Steven B. Esparza's enlightening, entertaining, insightful, candid, fascinating, 64-minute music documentary that chronicles the tumultuous career of Pistoleros band members, including frontman Lawrence Zubia, guitarist brother Mark, guitarist Thomas Laufenberg, bassist Scott Andrews, and drummer Gary Smith, whose drug and alcohol addictions negatively affected their lives and music and consists of archival film footage and photographs and commentary by frontman Lawrence Zubia, music journalist Ed Masley, former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, former Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore, Fervor Records CEO David Hilker and COO Jeff Freundlich, singer Robin Wilson, musicians (such as Hans Olson, Curtis Grippe, Ken Fleisch, Cris Kirkwood, and Scott Andrews), Lawrence Zubia's daughter Dani Zubia, and Phoenix Fire Dept. paramedic T.J. Stein.
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