South of the border
And continuing with legendary rock records from 1971
Another piece of wax that commands high prices
La Revolucion de EZ was a band from Jalisco, Guadalajara
Where Chivas is from
Also #1 state of Mexican immigrants in Chicago
I think
Very Pink Floyd-ish sound
They sang in English, in large part, to avoid government censorship
This record actually had a single, Nasty Sex, which was moderately popular in Mexico at the time, but had even bigger success abroad, esp in Europe
It’s great too
https://youtu.be/_mb0xL2Y2b8
But back to Ciudad Perdida, my favorite
It means “lost city”
One of the YT comments says:
“you don’t need to worry about the lyrics to understand what the guitar is politically protesting”
They were at the “Mexican Woodstock” in 1971
The height of “la onda”, Mexican countercultural movement
Avandaro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Rock_y_Ruedas_de_Av%C3%A1ndaro
Government crackdown
So what happens to the band?
They switch it up
And go on to have a long, successful career putting out romantic ballads!
In 2000, the PRI finally lost control of Mexican government
Current president is in fact leftist AMLO (who, it should be noted, has been resistant to broad shutdown measures to control COVID-19, though not as idiotically as bolsonaro)
And guess what?
In 2009, la Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata reincorporated as a rock band!
Viva Zapata!
Zapata vive
Oh btw I vote yes on Mr Paterson
Obviously
With the caveat that I presume a serious pianist is likely to be good at math, and therefore yet another player to bleed my stack
