To find a band that plays genuine rock songs it is not as easy as it seems.
The winning formula is a lot of rhythm, three simple chords and a catchy tune. Is that rock? Or it is something else?
I think nowadays, music lovers (and rock lovers) are more and more demanding and we look for something more than a song that can make us enjoy ourselves. We are looking for more than three catchy chords. Before, rock was seen as way of having a good time. People danced, they were uninhibited. We can go back to the 50’s and remember Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard songs and the big parties where all the people used to dance and listen to these hits.
But now, we are looking for something more than a moment of madness and lack of inhibition when we listen to rock. Songs should make us feel. Songs should carry a message. A message of sadness, a message of love, a message of nostalgia, a message of anger, a message of…whatever. Songs should make us think after listening to them. They should make us wonder things. And that is the genuine thing of rock. Those are the things that I appreciate in a band: good music and good lyrics as well.
And I know a local spanish band that meets all the values that I mentioned before. It is a band that can make you go back to the 50’s and dance like crazy. It is a band that can express a message of love or lack of it. It is a band that can make you savor the taste of the 70’s rock compositions. They try to seek the perfection in their melodies and in their voices (in their four voices because every member sings).
And that song is a tribute to all the musicians that had a huge influence in their way of playing and creating music. Musicians that said goodbye to their lives at the early age of 27 seven years old (I am talking about Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain…).
Judge yourself and enjoy the tune.
