Eddie Torres

Eddie Torres was an important and, in some senses, controversial manager in the 1960s Mexican-American rock scene in East Los Angeles. He managed the biggest and best band to emerge from that scene, Thee Midniters, and also ran the label, Whittier, on which the majority of their records appeared. The band did not get the national success they wanted, however, and split with Torres by the end of the '60s, by which time the band was in the process of fragmenting on its own. Torres got into rock & roll by promoting dances in East Los Angeles. At one of those he came across the ...