Dario Manrique, English rock journalist sent me a few questions for me to answer as part of research being done on Andres Calamaro, preparing for a book on "Brutal Honesty" . The book will be published this summer in the Language of Cloth Editorial Spain this summer and probably later in Argentina. Here your questions and my answers ...
- When and how did you meet Andrew? Andresito
came to any of the tests of group I was a guitarist in my early high school, Crystal Rock.
was
the son of a friend of bassist. He was a fussy baby that seemed much smaller than me and I still did not touch anything.
- How did the idea of \u200b\u200blying on the grass, travel and talking books? Do you remember what summer was the trip? "1998 - 1999?
The idea occurred to me, touched and excited for her album "Brutal Honesty." I liked the direct approach, fast, true, the idea to express themselves without too many mediations. That record came very close to me and I wanted him to see and talk.
I do not remember the year but if the book is from 2000 should be as you say.
- What are your memories Today much of the journey as the book?
that I missed much, much, my wife Ximena who had remained in Buenos Aires, that passed us doing anything and recording conversations, that the relationship between Andrew and Monica was a bit stormy and I was trying to help them understand better, that Andrew had a kind of underground despair, mixed with pleasant moments. I confirmed my feeling ever: Andrew is a very smart and very easy to create.
I remember at that time and for a few years I got a little sad to think of Andrew, because he was lonely and needy, deep. Vulnerable. My feeling was that had to be protected.
- What is your opinion of brutal honesty?
I find a great album. For its accuracy, its ease, its flight, its quality. He appears in the drama of Andrew and his thread, his neurosis might say, but expressed with grace and charm. For me that album art has a lesson: the recommendation to be truthful, speak freely and do a pose obsessive creation. Something that applied to my later work.
-Calamaro
has always cultivated links with the intelligentsia. Do you think that is something that distinguishes it from other rockers?
No, I think he is one of several cases of smart rock and thinking of our scenario in Argentina. I might also mention to Luis Alberto Spinetta, the greatest artist of our rock, or Charly, Fito and others that now escape me. The experimental rock is the thing to see life again, and each in its field has a strong and valuable thinking expression. For my taste, all watering on social issues, and adopt a position there own demagogic mass of artists, but hey, nobody's perfect. I admire them anyway.
- What do you think attracts people to the foot of the rock stars? Are they a model? A dump? An invitation to go further?
They are demi-gods, people capable of delivery and burning the stock becomes sacred. Propose a fusion of souls, they embody the transmutation through the explosion of strength and sensitivity.
- Do you think rockstars are a counter and counter-figure or an embodiment of dominant values \u200b\u200b(hedonistic fantasies, egomaniacs and consumer)? (If you can illustrate your answer with examples of real musicians)
I do not think that rock has always accompany a critique of the system. Above all, this new global system can be considered a colonized territory and expanded by the values \u200b\u200bof the rock. Today, the system is more rock than ever.
- How hard believe that AC became a star and why?
With High Dirt, perhaps because they saw him appear as a solo adult capable of making songs with a lot of arrival to the general public, yet without betraying its basic spirit.
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