As he started to gain more confidence as a performer on stage, Stewart would be billed as Rod the Mod. He also joined his first paying musician job as a harmonica player and part-time vocalist with the R&B group, Dimensions.Įarly in 1964 Long John Baldry discovered Stewart and invited him to play with his group the All Stars (renamed The Hoochie Coochie Men). It was also the same year he became fascinated by R&B and soul music. The following year Stewart picked up his signature Mod look, including his famous spiky rooster hairstyle.

In 1962 Stewart began spending time with Wizz Jones, a folk singer, and together they started to perform around England, Paris and even Barcelona, finding places to sleep under bridges. AND, you forgot that you are IN California.Born in Highgate, North London, England on 10 January 1945 and the youngest of five children, Stewart considered a career as a footballer before ultimately pursuing a career in music. You know very well that second hand smoke causes cancer and not to mention many people including myself are allergic to cigarette smoke. Hey Graton, we have the right to breathe clean air. To add to this, the dealer was telling us that he really hates the smoke and there was no individual fans on tables to blow away the smoke like many other casinos do. What kind of public place would not promote clean air and a healthy environment to their customers? Somehow they forgot that they are located IN California and California does not allow indoor cigarette smoking. I asked to talk to his manager but never got a chance to talk to him/her. I asked him again why and he gave me the same answer.

Later, the smoker left our table and we all requested to have our table to be non-smoking and once again he said NO. I asked why and his answer was, there was a table near by (a different game) which was non-smoking and thus he would not permit our table to be non-smoking. I asked the pit boss whether we could have this table non-smoking and his answer was NO. Visited Graton Casino yesterday and was playing at the Ultimate Poker table and one person on our table was smoking and everyone else was so disgusted.

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