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Despite landing a million dollar record deal, brothers Mark and Lawrence Zubia's fortunes are repeatedly tested by alcoholism, suicide and opioid addiction.
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00:06Back in 1998 we got a major label record deal the minute we signed the deal I went home and
00:11made room on my wall for a gold record. Seattle used to be the heart of alternative rock but
00:18now Tempe Arizona has the ears of the major labels hailing from the valley now the Pistoleros are
00:23ready for their moment in the sun. There were like six bands in Tempe all of a sudden that
00:27had major label deals. We met the president and I didn't know it was going to be a million dollar
00:31record deal. Mark and I are like twins. We would refer to ourselves as twins that were born three
00:41years apart. My earliest memory was music always music. Mark's the one that showed me hey dude those
00:47chords that you're playing with dad and that Mexican music and those work for Van Morrison, Rolling Stones.
00:58My relationship with my brother Mark is very quiet. We go through periods of not really speaking to
01:06each other. I learned quickly that Lawrence was a master manipulator of getting drugs.
01:14Lawrence started threatening suicide. I said to him if you're gonna do something like that do it
01:19somewhere where we never find your body. One day he asked me if you were gonna shoot yourself would
01:25you do it like this or like this.
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