Burning
Too Too Soon (Part II)
In this festival the chronicles of the times a little reminiscent of Woodstock United States, but it was 1975!! In Spain things came so late ... Glam Burning with their appearance, smell of patchouli meanwhile, were different in Francoist regime was falling apart. Proof of this was that in that summer of 75 was held in Catalonia called Canet Rock, with singers like Maria del Mar Bonet, Ovid Montllor, Pi de la Serra and other singers of the time ... Singing in Catalan!. At the time, but as Bob Dylan said "Times are changing," the sectores de la izquierda, a los que tanto les gustaban los cantautores, miraban mal a los grupos de rock, a los que acusaban de hacer “música del imperio”, ¡como si la canción protesta no bebiese del folk rock americano de los 60!
El mismo año, Burning, salen en el programa de TV Mundo pop y graban un segundo single con las canciones “Like a shot” y “Rock & Roll”. En aquella época junto a los títulos en inglés, encontrábamos su traducción al castellano, como en el inmortal “Born to be wild” de los Steppenwolf acreditaban “Nacido para ser indómito”y debajo de “Like a Shot “ ponia “Como un estallido”.
These two items were also included in the first volume compilation Viva roll, along with other configurations of time as Volume, Indiana, Moon, and even the announcer Mariscal Romero played two versions of the Rolling Stones, in addition to teacher of ceremonies in this document hoarse sound of rock called Madrid. The cabriolet made a song about the article "Invasion of the filth" to write the press Burgos Movement. Appeared in a shack covered with white wall and a painted read the title of the album. I remember an old Star, where Diego A. Manrique, if I remember correctly, had to Lenny Kaye, guitarist for the band Patty Smith, when it appeared in Spain, asked him to send a copy of that record to the United States. Kaye, besides being a great rock guitarist, was responsible for the compilation of garage rock bands of Peebles. Manrique ended the article wishing luck on the sales of Viva the roll, is not finally to melt those vinyls to record them at the Valencian singer Raimon.
those years in the Big Apple had bands that followed in the footsteps of New York Dolls, Kiss and Blue Oyster Cult, with explicit names such as Teenage Lust, Harlots of street 42, Luger, Suicide, Television, Dictators , Stiletos, Ramones, Wayne County and the Electric Chair. Street punks many of them, and mythical, with something that resembled rock anger Madrid, coinciding with the mid-70. At No. 11, Vibration we read in an article "The names of new groups in New York", "a list (translated into Castilian) of new groups in this city can give us a good idea of \u200b\u200bthe atmosphere was healthy citizen today live in the city of skyscrapers: Lust adolescents, Harlots, Suicide, Eric Emerson and the magical prostitutes Cretinos Street, TV, Hell, Styli, Dictators, Good Rats ...". Llopis Oriol also speak of them in his article in his paper on the underground rock USA in the rock album and MOSÏK comics, or as well defined Diego A. Manrique in his book that will pimp rock "from the armpits of this monstrous city that is Madrid noises escape amorphous, vulgar, strident. It's not pretty, is not original, is not "fashionable." Theoretically can not exist, but there it is. Locked up in garages, shacks, and other improbable rehearsal, with short breaks to act in neighborhood clubs, punk rock still lives in Madrid because he can not die. "He then spoke of the possibility of recording an album Burning the Only course title for Women, which never sees the light. For the year would be 76 or 77 when The group's main leaders, Antonio and Pepe Risi, are claimed to do military service. Coinciding with the year the Rolling Stones performed at the Monumental de Barcelona. Just when the English began to release the democracy, Antonio and Pepe were replaced by several batteries and guitarist Aris Cuenca.
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late 1977 with Antonio and Pepe back in the group, I Play Movie terminate contracts. Would argue, among other things they did not rock with roots, to which he replied bassist Quique "Lastrung" they did "rock with balls."
Coinciding with the arrival of the phenomenon land British punk act of opening for Londoners Doctor Feelgood, and without their lead guitarist Wilko Johnson, because of disagreements with the other group's leader, Lee Brilleaux. Giving a mini-tour in a country as devastated as ours, would act in Bilbao, San Sebastian, Madrid and Barcelona. Giving the locals a look at the English, looking to the stars were the Burning. In San Sebastian came to blows during the assembly stage, as the engineers were given half the volume.
Madrid, encouraged by their age, will give them a good thrashing with his performance. And in Barcelona was the ultimate, as reflected in some accounts. "Burning and Dr. Feelgood, the world upside down: The last concert more or less important of the year in Barcelona was a bit disappointing. Disappointing compared to the "stars", promising support for the group. For if the doctors made it clear to him that they were instead quemadísimos Burning kept the staff badly. Burning leaves things clear from the outset. They are one rokcanrollers, chops, first class, and from there take it or leave it. I take it personally. And I am not alone, many people after the show agreed that the kids of Madriles had been the best of the night "." Leaving the room I sensed that most likely Dr. Feelgood LP will not have a future because they have nothing left to say. Burning the contrary, God certainly gives food to those who have no teeth, or rather give the vinyl executifs those who do not know what to write to him. "
These comments were the Star and Vibrations in January 1978 we read "I have already referred to the impression Brilleaux and I felt pity, recalling with nostalgia that unforgettable performance at the Orange Festival 75, this terrific band that of a coup swept all competition seemed vastly diminished, tired, a copy of themselves, even boring professionals could fool many people but perhaps were already rotting inside. Burning was nothing less juggling, dirtier but more effective and more real, a kind that have been submitted to mass audiences. A good shooting can turn once and for all in the group are, because if Ramoncín promises Burning is already a reality. "
Back from the military, the group has sung songs in English and even tried to promote themselves and settle in Miami. For those years in Madrid and find groups of punk attitude as Ramoncín and toilet? and Kaka de Luxe. In an interview I did the latter were asked in the late Disco Express weekly musical "You come to supersede the old? "" That is, we do not we get with Burning. They are very horny. And were the first to be blond wigs, medium and dark glasses. "
Finally, in 1978 get a contract in the Belter, in its sublabel Ochre, not many people are terrified of them recorded in the same company that Manolo Escobar, both harm the Trapera Banda del Río. At the end of the summer's Star magazine takes on the cover in color, with keyboardist Johnny doing the trick of looking like a dwarf. Oriol Llop wrote a nice article with an interview with Pepe Risi included. With his first LP in the street and have participated in the soundtrack of the film by Fernando Colomo What's a girl like you doing in a place like this, which also involved as a rock band called Burp.
Llopis's article is a true statement of principles when he says "If the Rolling Stones were born in Spain be sure that you call Burning. Put another even though the Stones are still the best rock band in the world, unfortunately no longer live by and for music, his music. Live for fun. Burning the complete opposite, whose only reason is, and I repeat, rock & roll. Even I who love the rock much more than the Stones. Now Jagger and his band of rockers are much more playboys interested in finding a method of avoiding currency and dodge taxes not in the music they make. Like a Velvet Underground, some Flaming Groovies, Burning a group has been cursed with bad luck and had to currar very hard to get to be where they are now. "
As Colomo's film, to me personally the only thing I like to party Burning performance is its soundtrack. As the tape, which has not seen it, begins with the band performing in a theater or cinema, playing the iconic "Jim Dynamite" and the audience sitting in the seats ... hard to believe!. Also appeared as a soloist as José Lage "FIFO" and Antonio, the real singer of the Burning passed on rhythm guitar. Before this film, the director had done a paper tiger, a liberal film with Carmen Maura, who was returning in this as the girlfriend of singer Burp. One of the few funny moments is when Felix Rotaeta, who plays ex-husband of Maura and makes a police informer pretty facade and bully (as Torrente, come on), when you've got the dough from the barbershop to his ex-wife, The Burning stolen this one, who is dressed as Mandrake the Magician comics. Or when Jose Lage "Fifo" acts in that salon to wash him and mark and ask for money at knifepoint to pay.
The song titled the film comes as a single and became his best known song to this day. The film ended up serving more than launch the group to its maker. It notes that it is a history of the Madrid scene. The song, which Pepe "Risi" and Antonio took a phrase from Humphrey Bogart in one of his legendary films, and composed with an acoustic guitar and sitting on a bed, without spending money or anything was in the hideous 40 Principales. The group recalled "It stuck, try to buy the number 1, but were told that things were not working well. We decided one day to the 12 am taking a cocktail in the Pentagram in camera and listening to "Sweet Virginia." That song had to be at the top, we were hot, could not be. " On the flip side of sensilla include the previously unreleased "Dry Gin." MADRID BURNING
That same year, 1978, see light the first long duration of Madrid, a vinyl currado noticed how good it is. With a black and white cover them with leather jackets, black sunglasses and cigarettes on the corner of his mouth. In the back, the empty street. The album folder is opened and we could see pseudo-glam jackets and the phrase to read Brian Jones in the epitaph of the late Rolling Stone, "Do not judge me too harshly." It is ultimately the Burning had been singing in Spanglish to play rock in English, and finally drew a long duration which shape their new songs. Oriol
Llopis wrote in Star: "Pepe's guitar rather than a knife guts rag, low Henry sounds like an iron bar atizándote in the coconut, and Antonio exhibits a ragged voice, defiant, as if hesitating to all living creature. No voices in this country well, no ... All songs are beautiful, and I want to comment on the pieces one by one. "Madrid" is the "Brown Sugar" of Burning, Antonio is his city as if it were a woman, a whore who hates but at the same time may not be without it. " The song very well defined wave of the Burning of the time, with the typical organ sound that sounded at first. "Roc & Roll Mama", "is simple and catchy." I personally like a song for the boys of Tequila, which then also got their first LP, but for the Elipa. "Hey babe": This is one of my favorite songs ever, part-time and edged guitar Pepe Risi real sparks and shrapnel taking the sound of his slim gibson Les Paul, which reminds a little edgy sound that drew James Williamson of the Stooges, both the raw power and in the New values. The song said "My girl would not cross the border with me / saying it was only for your husband / so I was buried alive" and then continued "I'll spank baby / for you to be more fun / I'll spank girl / by be so boring. " This will take now and with that of "gender violence" the fine and imprison for life. The theme was similar to a chorus of "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones. "Lust" a pretty sad track where Johnny shows that not only use their keyboards to fill what he let his bandmates. In addition to sounding the horn of P. Iturralde, and prove that they were good crooners.
The second side of the album starts with "Mientele" in the vein of "Madrid" and "Hey babe" with incredible energy and a few chords that sound with verses like this "Take a place in the circus and its domal Women / play dirty and do not ask why. " O "I said I love you baby and she made fun of me / the lie and she died for me / what you can do a guy / just lie and lie / when a girl wants to get / Mientele, they love you so." Another song that would have had now problems of the sector by more feministoide.
The following is the unique "Jim Dinamita", where they talk to a character reminiscent of the "Northamerican" by Kim Fowley, or, Recent Pijoaparte Afternoons with Juan Marse. I still remember when Pop Party Journal, submitted by Jesus Ordovas, Burning invited Loquillo and Sabino Méndez to sing together. Another issue that today would be difficult to record for his letter "To a foreigner raped when leaving the bag, and I was filled with silver for all." Or ways of Jagger and Richard when he says "If your mom knew baby / where you have to kiss / when you want to see me smile. "
Rounding out the ballad "No time to live," half time ending with the verse "I will end my life, R & R dancing a suicide." Returning to Oriol Llopis "And when the needle reaches the end of the album, one he turns around and starts again."
also released a single with the song title serving as the film where they appear with the great song "Dry Gin" with metaphors like "I was leaning / you on the shelf seemed to smile / I wanted to feel what is truth / in the thousands of stories they tell you / I do not think so baby / do not tell me baby / I think I was there / do not tell me baby / and from me / I feel the warmth of your breath through my body / I'll try I'll get / I do not think so baby / pass of me. "
If many of these songs had been signed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in place of Pepe Risi and Antonio would be part of worship in various parts of the world, but Burning were neither British nor American, for that ... For those years was the phenomenon of fans, with Bose, Pecos, Ivan, Marin and Leif Garrett. Appeared in the TVE program applause with many screaming teenagers. And Belter comes up with the brilliant idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a fan club. After to see the results of the above mentioned, go for a genuine picture "of the Elipa thugs" who kindly invited the president, vice president and some fans to a single menu diner based salad and grilled chicken, while between coffee and Coffee sought, together with his friend Oriol Llopis, a contact to get 'stuff. " That was a very common theme in them, lack of money, for as many groups in this country, going to concerts in a van with their instruments, their sound equipment, "a sinister road-manager, a sinister-looking driver rag carrying knife in hand, and two roadies starving, on the size of their muscles, all they could raise was a rickety old boom box. " Applause appeared on the show, presented by the Catalan actress Silvia Tortosa, and the Lib porn magazine, one that the failed writer threshold defined as "The Playboy of the poor." The group posed with several girls who were a lesbian antics. Live your potential remained intact, as demonstrated in 1979 in the sports hall of Badalona, \u200b\u200bthe same where he plays in youth basketball team, opening for the Triana Seville. Of the 3,000 people attending the performance of Burning, only 500 were left to see the star group. Jaime Gonzalo wrote in Star, "The site of the Youth was crowded by large crowds, mostly native of Badalona. The concert also featured Triana, but one is not very keen to hear eulogies instrumental on the Moorish-Muslim history-mora-Sephardic or whatever, and do not have the courage to endure ... so I can only write about Burning. From this picture of pimps Elipa have gone on to become refined rockers. Both in sound and image, which today are the very best that runs through the window Celtiberian, and the very best without any doubt. This was demonstrated in a concert with all the savoir faire that gives the professionalism and agility, as stipulated in business fees. Real stars hurbano rock'n'roll. Burning boys clinched a hard gig and the whole body. Some songs with text in Castilian that were not, as often happens in these cases, weak inspiration. On the other hand, instrumentally speaking, are extremely careful. Thus, in its entirety, Burning is something to grip on this bleak landscape Hispanic. These may now sophisticated outsiders of the capital, have roots that emerge from the most well-known British-American tradition. But honestly, is something I give a damn. The guys do well and achieve a delight to listen. A treat that makes you forget the myriad of influences that hover around his repertoire. Ahhhh, played things like "Jim Dinamita", "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this" - I still think is one of the basic tracks of English rock, "Johnnie B. Goode, "and a few new pieces that mean a smart new approach to the band's career. Now that they are under the tutelage of "Uncle Gay" I guess that we see more often. " In this performance was no longer his former battery, Teto, who preferred to pursue studies when Antonio asked, "You who prefer to devote to study or R'n'R, man." Would be replaced by Lito. But even before they recorded their second LP, The end of a decade. With several drummers charge of patches, some songs are in charge of the percussion himself Pepe Risi. Hardwood also worked Ramiro, former drummer Coz. The cover is wonderful, with the band members at a table where we see a porn magazine with a blonde doing oral sex, an album of Led Zeppelin, one of the British punks Slaughter & the Dogs, pills, pot, a hypodermic syringe, a newspaper with news and a photo of Adolfo Suarez, a tie for the turnstile of the peak, some roses, a deck of cards, the band's first LP, a switchblade, a clock, a sneaker, 100 bills and 1,000 pesetas. and a bottle of wine. In the back all broken and stained with wine. Although the cover to a color picture surrounding a Parcheesi board that is a bit stupid. It is rumored that while Jaime Stinus, guitarist at the time of the Orquesta Mondragón and excomponente of Brakaman, would be part of Burning. It would have been great to see Stinus with Pepe Risi. As Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner to English. In 1980, again mentions the Star Burning is about the end of the decade. "Unlike the first album, which was perfect cover for its simplicity, the second album by Burning has been horribly butchered by the masters of the art department, have added to the cover photo-based framework of colored stripes in ludo plan, which is simply revolting. But anyway, say if the content is good, no matter the skin ... Contents: better than the first LP. "
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