#How to play hey pachuco on drums full

вЂњWe were the first conjuto to play rock on TV,вЂќ remembers Mando. The drummer was halfway in the door and the slap on the bass was the echo from the rest of the room.вЂќД«y 1956, the band had their very own television show, fittingly called Rock вЂnвЂ™ Roll. вЂњIf you were in tune you were in tune, if you were out of tune you were out of tune. вЂњWe recorded it direct to wax, no EQ or nothing,вЂќ details Perales. When Elvis came out, the girls said, вЂHey, thereвЂ™s a guy singing a white dude and he looks like you, Mando!вЂ™ Mando said, вЂWhat do you mean he looks like me?!вЂ™вЂќ In 1955, the two worlds converged on wax when Conjuto MexicoвЂ™s breakneck renditions of ChenierвЂ™s вЂњBoppinвЂ™ The RockвЂќ and Chuck BerryвЂ™s вЂњMaybelleneвЂќ were captured on RioвЂ™s primitive disc cutter. вЂRock Around The ClockвЂ™ came out in вЂ™54 and we were already doing rhythm and blues.

If we didnвЂ™t know it and you asked for it, we picked the hell out of that damn thing. ThatвЂ™s when I first heard rock вЂnвЂ™ roll.вЂќ TheyвЂ™d do the standard polkas and boleros and then, all of a sudden, with Mando playing accordion, theyвЂ™d break into вЂLucilleвЂ™ or вЂJust BecauseвЂ™ by Lloyd Price. вЂњIвЂ™d go to these house parties with my brother and San Antonio Alegre would be playing. Texas guitarist Randy Garibay recalled the early Mando experience in an article for the San Antonio Express- News. Three of these recordings are available on San AntonioвЂ™s Conjutos In The 1950s (Arhoolie), and one of them, 1954вЂ™s вЂњMi DolorcitoвЂќ is downright mind-boggling in its mixture of insistent jump blues rhythm, sophisticated Western swing melody, electrified flamenco guitar and jive-talking vocals. Mando estimates recording up to 50 sides in the conjuto style with his first two bands, Conjuto San Antonio Alegre and Conjuto Mexico-both of which often included Perales on either bajo-sexto or guitar-for small barrio labels like Rio, Corona and Ideal during the early вЂ™50s. And I started playing his songs but I was playing them on a button accordion.вЂќ

In the early вЂ™50s when rock вЂnвЂ™ roll was just starting to come in I was picking up on just about everybody that was coming in and there was a guy out of Louisiana that played the (piano) accordion, Clifton Chenier. вЂњWhen I was a kid I started on upright bass and then I went with the accordion. вЂњWe put the band together in San Antonio in вЂ™54,вЂќ remembers bass player and vocalist Armando Almendarez, now known as Mando Cavallero.

#How to play hey pachuco on drums full

That seems just about right for a band whose very existence has at times seemed almost too good to be true, whose righteous grooves and mysterious elusiveness have inspired years of frustrating, dead-end detective work on the parts of Peppers die-hards like ZZ TopвЂ™s Billy Gibbons, Arhoolie RecordsвЂ™ Chris Strachwitz,author John Broven, WWOZвЂ™s Billy Delle and, needless to say, yours truly.ДЇor those uninitiated with Mando Mania, a single spin of their sole 1957 long player, On The Road With Rock вЂnвЂ™ Roll (available on CD courtesy of BritainвЂ™s Ace Records) is all it should take to elicit full conversion, provided you can get past the albumвЂ™s incredible cover, which pictures five young Mexican-Americans strapping Fender amps and guitars to the roof rack of a black Packard limousine under a deep blue sun-kissed sky. Topping the bill of 2005вЂ™s upcoming Ponderosa Stomp, itвЂ™s been over 45 years since San AntonioвЂ™s first tier rockers have played a gig. As you can probably tell from their name alone, Mando and the Chili Peppers are about as one-of-a-kind as it gets. Now, thatвЂ™s actually a very good question. вЂњIt seems to me,вЂќ I tell Chili Peppers guitarist Jesse вЂњChuchoвЂќ Perales, вЂњthat you were one of the first bands of your kind.вЂќ вЂњ At the time?вЂќ he responds with a smile in his voice, вЂњOr period?вЂќ Their music, a border-town facsimile of honking New Orleans R&B, lilting enchilada-flavored swamp pop, and loose, scat vocal-inflected country and rock вЂnвЂ™ roll, is, taken together, most certainly the earliest recorded version of what later came to be called Tex-Mex. If thereвЂ™s a singular source of pioneering Pachuco artistry that laid the groundwork for every Latino rock вЂnвЂ™ roll band from Sunny and the Sunglows to Sonny Ace and the Twisters, from Sam the Sham to Santana, from the Sir Douglas Quintet to ? and the Mysterians, from Little Joe and the Latinaires to Los Lobos, itвЂ™s the one, and most certainly only, Mando and the Chili Peppers.