The Young VS Belle and Sebastian

Because it's about the music and looks like these guys DO care about music.

T  H  E             Y    O     U       N         G

Hans Zimmerman always a step ahead.

Parlor is such a great band

I don't know anything about this band, don't know where they are from, don't know how they look except these songs in his bandcamp

http://parlor1.bandcamp.com/album/life-stays-great

The first time I listened them was in one of the MRR radio shows but I don't remember right now how was the guest who recomended it (my head is completely gone away, it's about midnight and I'm pretty lazy to check the maximum's site). Imagine Bratmobile after 1 week  listening Mission of Burma and Minutemen with a high dose of Vitamin C. The drums sound is one of the best sounds I've ever heard, one of the guys in the league of Murph from Dinosaur or Brendan Canty from Fugazi. I'm pretty jealous that they sound so good, I wish I can play like them.

The Punks don't like Sonic Youth

And they don't like either...

Los 3 Acordes

Hace unos días mientras estaba tocando la guitarra me preguntaba a mi mismo porque me podía pasar tanto tiempo tocando la misma estructura de 3 acordes una y otra vez hasta el infinito, tratando de encajar alguna melodía tonta y en algún que otro intento patético imitando a Buddy Holly.

 --- La estructura del Rock 'n roll no es nada más que la tónica (nota raíz) que estemos tocando, por ejemplo MI,  tocarla un compás de 4 entero y luego en el siguiente compás usamos su 4a, en este caso el LA y su 5a SI. Tendríamos MI =1, FA = 2, SOL = 3, LA =4, SI = 5, con esta base tan sencilla se puede tocar toda la discografía de Ramones. Si se quiere variar de nota (tónica) solo se tiene que seguir el esquema para encontrar sus respectivas 4a y 5a. ----

Dejando de lado la aburrida teoría de la música (ese gran tabú que mata la espontaniedad, la frescura artística y la inmediatez creativa hacia el músico) e intentando recordar el porqué de mi obsesión del rock 'n roll, del pop mas sencillo, de las canciones mas agradables al oído, di con algo, mucho antes (bueno, no tan antes) de tener mi primera cinta de los Beatles: Live at the BBC o de mi primer disco de Nirvana, algo pasó como un electroshock que me cambió por completo:

Esta joya de arriba fue mi primer contacto con el lado enrollado de la vida. Además recuerdo perfectamente la historia y el porqué lo hice. Era verano, me acuerdo llevar una camiseta de tirantes con chococrispis pegados en ella desde el desayuno, pero por tal de llevar la contraria a mi madre decía que me los guardaba para después y ella se enfadaba aun más. En fin, debería ser la sobremesa (3 o 4pm) y los vecinos del 3º 1ª vinieron a casa para tomar un café con mis padres, recuerdo que mi hermana estaba jugando con una amiga suya en su cuarto y se enfadaba si husmeaba por ahí y para colmo los niños locos de los vecinos que vinieron estaban castigados por cualquier tontería como cruzar la calle solos o decir un taco ( Vease Rod y Tod Flanders). Cuando eres niño eres positivo o negativo, te lo pasas pipa o te aburres como el que más, así que después de varios intentos fallidos de llamar la atención de los adultos se me ocurrió la idea de pillar un Disco de mi padre y ponerlo en la salita a toda ostia, para molestar mas que nada. El disco en cuestión fue el recopilatorio de Rock n Roll de la foto, pero cuando le di al play y lo puse al volumen máximo y empezó a sonar el primer tema, Roll over Beethoven de Chuck Berry me quedé de piedra, ¿Magia? No lo se, pero algo se despertó dentro de mi, algo me hacía sentirme como Marty McFly en Regreso al Futuro y eso nunca lo olvidaré, ese ritmo, esas guitarras, sentirme un macarrilla, ese escenario donde solo vale el pasárselo bien.
Después de eso vino lo mejor, a los 5 minutos de mi sobredosis de rebeldía escucho a mi padre venir corriendo hacia la habitación y yo me preparo para lo peor, pienso, fijo que me cae una bronca, que me la había cargado pero ¿No es lo que quería?... Total, abre la puerta y al verme enfrente del altavoz con la cara como un cuadro me pregunta: - ¿Qué haces? Le respondo que escuchando música, como tu haces siempre. De repente me doy cuenta que nunca vi a mi padre reír tanto como en aquel momento, de golpe suelta - Bien, bien, bien sigue ahí, no te molesto. Viene hacia mi y me da una palmada en la espalda con orgullo, como pensando "Lo he conseguido!" y me deja solo con la puerta cerrada para que disfrute por mi mismo de Chuck Berry. Y Ahí me quedé, sin recibir una bronca, pero había llamado la atención de mi padre lo cual era importante ya que todo lo que hacía iba destinado a impresionar a los que me rodeaban y en especial a mis padres. Bastante egocéntrico, si, para que engañarnos y en parte aún me gusta actuar así en determinadas ocasionas.
Desde ese momento la figura de mi padre en lo que a música se refiere ha sido un pilar importante en mi educación, me hizo que me gustara Hendrix, Nirvana o Beatles antes de que ningún niño de clase le prestara un mínimo de atención, era el bicho raro siempre y estoy orgulloso de eso.

No encuentr ningún enlace de descarga del recopilatorio pero aquí se puede ver el contenido si a alguien le interesa:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/25-rock-n-roll-hits-vol-1-mw0001237915

Toda una selección de las mejores voces y canciones de los 50: Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry Coasters, Bill Haley, Danny and the Juniors, Del Shannon, Gene Vincent, Ronettes y un largo etcétera.




Por culpa de Tutti Frutti y hacer el animal me partí la uña del dedo pequeño del pié por hacer el animal. Nunca habrá nadie tan molón nin tan salvaje al mismo tiempo como Little Richard, porque de entrada sigue vivo y nadie lo sabe pero es inmortal.

Recuerdo un 24 de Diciembre sobre esa época que me fui de copiloto con mi padre a repartir cestas de Navidad y nos pasamos todo el día escuchando sin parar Yakety Yak y sobretodo meándonos de risa con el "Don't talk back" que canta una voz grave al final de cada verso. La verdad, todo muy Navideño.

PD: Desde la primera vez que escuché el riff de Roll Over Beethoven quería tocar la guitarra y no la melódica.

PEACE

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Some days ago while I was playing the guitar I was asking myself the meaning of my obsession towards the 3 chords structure, keep playing the same pattern over and over till the end of the world. Just trying to fit any silly melody or just a poor Buddy Holly's imitation.

--- The rock 'n roll structure is just the root note we are playing, example E, play it along the whole 4 bar then in the next bar we play it's 4th, that case A and it's 5th B. We got E=1, F=2, G=3, A=4, B=5. With this easy theory base we can play the whole Ramones discography. If you want to use another root note you just have to follow the sketch and find out his 4th and 5th ----

Leaving the boring music theory (that cancer that kills the inspiration, the spontaneity, the fresh artistic mind of the musician) and trying to remember the reason of my rock 'n roll 3 chords obsession, of the bubblegum  and silly pop I found that something happened even before to get my first Beatles: Live at the BBC tape or my first Nirvana record. Something explodes inside my mind like an electroshock that changed me at all.

This V.A. below was my first proper contact with the cool side of life. Besides I remember exactly how and why it came to me. Was a very hot summer, I remember wearing one of this sleeveless shirt with chocopops sticked on it from the breakfast time (as soon as I was annoying my mum I was pretty proud, so I used to tell herI was keeping it on my t shirt for later and she got angrier, mums stuff...). Must be 3 o 4 pm, the neighbours next door came over for a coffee, my sister was playing I her room with a friend and I wasn't welcome to get in, the freaks neighbours kids were punished because some stupid reason like crossing the road by themselves or to say a bad word (Like Todd and Rod Flanders). When you are little you use to be positive or negative, like the electricity, you are having fun or you are getting bored. After several failed attempts to pay my parents attention I came with the idea to get one of my Dad's record and play in the room next door loud as hell. The record was this Rock 'n Roll V.A. and when I pushed play and Chuck Berry started to play the intro of Roll Over Beethoven I became a stone. Magic? I don't really know, but something woke up inside me that made me feel like Marty McFly in Back to the Future and that's something I won't never forget, that rhythm, that guitar sound, feeling bad-ass, that scenario where having a good time is the only matter. It came, I know it sounds topic but I was made for this, music is so straight way of art that when it shocks it really does.

5 minutes later of my discovery and thinking "Why the fuck I've never pay attention to my dad's music advice" (I thought music was a bit boring to be honest, shit! I was only 10) I noticed some steps coming over  to the rooom, so I started to think about the worst, Dad is gonna yell to me but that's what I wanted... Anyway, He opened the door and saw me in front of the speaker with my electroshock face and asked me - What are you doing? I answer I'm just listening music like you use to do. Suddenly I realize that he is starting to laugh so hard in a very happy way, comes to me, proudly salp my back and says - good good good, excellent, I let you by your own, don't want to bother you. Like a winning lap for him, I can even see him thinking: I did it! So many years playing Hendrix and El ultimo de la fila in the car and he got it now! He went out and let me there enjoying Chuck Berry's masterpiece and no one yelled to me but He gave me the attention I was looking for. Call me egocentric, yeah, but I do like to act like this sometimes.

Since that moment the image of my dad toward my music education was the most important class in my life, he made me like the Beatles, Nirvana, Hendrix even before any kid in my class paid a bit of attention for the cool music. I was a weirdo and I'm proud.

I can't find any download link of the V.A. but you can check the tracks in this link: 

http://www.allmusic.com/album/25-rock-n-roll-hits-vol-1-mw0001237915

A good selection of the best voices and songs of the 550's: Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Coaster, Bill Haley, Danny and the Juniors, Del Shannon, Gene Vincent, Ronettes...

PEACE

ROCKET TO PUTIN

So sad about the Pussy Riot judgement, so pissed to see the PEOPLE acting with this kind of things like cretins, yes, those people who think they are ruling the world. They are just a bunch dickheads with a huge inferiority complex. The Russians are back! Vladimir Putin, your breath stinks you sewer-mouth!

Reunion with an old friend

My good friend Steve ( http://www.leftylemur.com/) gave me for my Birthday a 180gr cool copy of The Madcap Laughs. I remenber the first time I listened the solo work of the Madcap that I had this feeling and telling to myself "This is the music I always wanted to listen and to play with the guitar" and I had it again this evening when I turn on the turntable and I played this master-piece.

I wish I could have met him, just once in a lifetime and let him know that he made me realise over and over that you just have to make music for yourself and no one else.

SHUT UP!

 

LADIES AND GENTS

SHE!BANGS

I'm glad to introduce you She!Bangs because it's the band I play in. I won't try to sell and to fit our songs in any  genre or type if you want to listen some Pop, Lo-fi (proper home recording Lo-fi with a shitty mic) and rock just click the link below.

We love Sunday Morning Rehearsal, Hüsker Dü and Breaking Bad

FLIPPER at XOYO w/ GREY HAIRS

I've just come from the gig at the XOYO in this rainy 10th April 2012, I know I look like the sort of nerd waiting to come home to write on internet how shit was everything, but that's not true, I haven't written in this blog for ages, so I don't give a shit. Anyway, Tonight Flipper were playing in the Old London, here you are:

Flipper are old
Flipper know how to be on stage
Flipper are LOUD
Flipper are SLOW
Flipper is a BOMB
Flipper don't share their drinks
Flipper is mental disorder
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But....

The best band (JUST MY OPINION!) was the opening one (AS USUAL)... Grey Hairs from Nott.

I didn't like Eagulls, I'm not gonna write about them.


Flipper are old but they know how to to drop an hydrogen bomb into the audience and you feel in any moment anything is going to explode, can be a fight, can be an anvil falling down the ceiling or it just can be a supersaturated Pro co RAT. I've been checking some set list from this European tour and they've been playing the same old songs every single night, those old songs really can fit in any generation massacre. We really need people on the edge pushing the violence that surrounded us coming from the human behaviour to make us feel bodies.
They were short, too much, I can't believe I'm saying that cos I always complain to myself about the length of some bands, but trust me, I would need an extra hour playing the whole gone fishin' album.
I'll choose  what H. Rollins wrote in "Get in the van" to describe the Flipper experience:

They were just heavy. Heavier than you. Heavier than anything...When they played they were amazing."

PS: I don't know anything about Grey Hairs, just that they are from Nott and the singer knows how to move, but I fucking loved it. It's the better description I can tell you.

Grey Hairs: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grey-Hairs/264148570291886



PS 2: Rachel Thoele singing SEX BOMB, the best end ever!



She's a sex bomb my baby---

The Young

I've been listening this album too much and I can tell you that it's one of my favourites records. The Young are from Austin, TX and they've got what a band needs: Good songs. It's seems nowadays it's important to get into a hype than writing songs into your own. I'd rather let to listen it than try to explain the influences, it would be useless. Ladies and Gents:

THE YOUNG - Phoebis Cluster
(Voyagers of Legend)
Mexican Summer Records



http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/the-young-voyagers-of-legend/