{"id":20,"date":"2016-07-12T04:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T04:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2016-08-10T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:57:17","slug":"los-garajeros-de-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/2016\/07\/12\/los-garajeros-de-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Garajeros de Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Demoler<\/a>Yes, garage music is everywhere. Even in South America. While visiting my mom’s family a few years back in Lima, Peru. I made a point to pick up Demoler<\/em>, a book by Peruvian Carlos Torres Rotundo on the history of the rock scene in Peru from ’57-’75. Although\u00a0fluent\u00a0in Spanish,\u00a0I put it down shortly after buying it from just the sheer effort required to read it. A few weeks ago, after finishing Richard Hell’s bio of his punk years, I decided to start working my way through it again. Boy, did it pay off.\u00a0The book gives a wonderfully colorful\u00a0and detailed\u00a0picture of the era. Here are some choice nuggets.<\/p>\n

The section on Los Saicos explains\u00a0how they recorded most of their genre-defining output with folkloric-recording engineers who\u00a0decided it was best to just plug them straight into the tape machine\u00a0directly, lest their howling amps fry\u00a0their equipment. Or, how for their first performance, Los\u00a0Saicos\u00a0were invited to the illustrious Cacodispe music festival, only to perform “Come On” and have the capacity crowd respond in dead silence after they finished. After they started gaining some notoriety, the gigs started increasing at a furious pace. Using an old truck with Los Saicos hand painted on one of the doors, the band did five to ten performances every\u00a0Sunday in\u00a0local theaters. Every promoter wanted a piece of them.<\/p>\n

\"Saicos<\/a>
A plaque honoring Los Saicos in the Lince neighborhood of Peru.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another more tragic tale relates\u00a0how the popular Golden Boys’ drummer, “Chacal” Allison became destitute and homeless in later years and survived only through the good graces of\u00a0other former beat group members. Aware of his fragile existence, the older rockeros often gathered together and\u00a0did benefits for their lost musical brother.<\/p>\n

Yet another anecdote described what happened\u00a0when Los Shains first\u00a0performed “El Monstruo” (aka The Crusher) to a matinee audience. As the singer growled “I’m a monster, I will destroy you…” a heckler\u00a0yelled out “Hey fucker, blame your mom for that!” Which naturally led the singer and guitarist to promptly jump off the stage and pummel the offending audience member. The song was never performed live again\u2014just in case\u00a0any similar incidents were to\u00a0occur.<\/p>\n

Astounding material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, garage music is everywhere. Even in South America. While visiting my mom’s family a few years back in Lima, Peru. I made a point to pick up Demoler, a book by Peruvian Carlos Torres Rotundo on the history of the rock scene in Peru from ’57-’75. Although\u00a0fluent\u00a0in Spanish,\u00a0I put it down shortly after buying … Continue reading “Los Garajeros de Peru”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,9,8,10],"ppma_author":[281],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peru","tag-carlos-torres-rotundo","tag-demoler","tag-los-saicos","tag-peru"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","authors":[{"term_id":281,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"jcuyubamba","display_name":"Jeff","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f7f2689c4c49560eb348832cb73281b822a7fbae40c8e1598e8e3c09b6d4de91?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.shaksomeaction.nyc","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakesomeaction.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}