LOS ABANDONED
If you checked out "Word on the Street" this morning you read WOTS' rave about proto-punk, Spanglish band Los Abandoned. They'll be playing with Mento Buru this Saturday at Fishlips (1517 18th St.) at 8 p.m. The cover is only THREE BUCKS!
And as promised here's WOTS' interview with the group's own head funkster Don Verde:
Q: How long have you guys been together?
A: Two and half years. The singer and I were writing a year and half before that.
Q: Why the name “Los Abandoned”?
A: The short story I suppose would be both of us (Don Verde and Lady P) were in other bands at the time and our bands had broken up and we were feeling abandoned. We found we had similar issues. Our band has a sense of humor. It's a joke. It's a funny sounding name so we just went with it. It's kind of punk and silly.
Q: What's with the sound? Very 80s, prog, retro?
A: We’re kind of stuck in our past. We love all the 70s,80s 90s stuff. We get really inspired by whatever we’ve been listening to.
Q: Who are some of your musical influences?
A: We definitely like acts like Blondie, Missing Persons, Cafe Tacuba and Aterciopelados.
Q: The Aterciopelados?
A: It means literally, like, "the velvety ones."
Q: What do you think about playing B-town?
A: We’re excited. I’ve actually never been there. I’ve driven by several times. All those place that not every one stops at have the coolest people there. I gather that Bakersfield is like that as well. It's a less jaded scene. People are a lot more fun to talk to.
Q: What kind of reaction do you guys get when you get up and play? I imagine there's not a ton of Spanglish, New Wave, retro acts out there?
A: I'll put it to you this way, I’m surprised how often people go, "Wow, you guys speak to me." A lot of people speak Spaniglish and there are a lot of people who love the music too. Then some will go, "What is this 'crazy Blondie Spanish thing?" We've turned out those people who didn’t even know what they were getting into. We've gotten a really good response in spite of the fact its just a particular thing that we do. We make a show fun. It's really different. And we do a good job reaching the audience.
Some of the tough crowds are the Spanish (speaking) only. They get upset if you sing in English.
So far we’ve won over all our audeinces. I think that’s a huge accomplishment.
Q: So you're really named David Green but you go by "Don Verde?" See, I figured it out pretty quick who you were since verde is Spanish for green. I have about a six year old's knowledge of Spanish.
A: (Laughing) "Don Verde." People will think "Dawn" Verde is my wife. There’s a story with that to, when we started out kind of erased our past. We'd been in a lot of bands. We decided to forget about all that (and give ourselves newnames). None of that, "Hey, that’s the guy from blah blah blah."
No, just listen to the music.
And as promised here's WOTS' interview with the group's own head funkster Don Verde:
Q: How long have you guys been together?
A: Two and half years. The singer and I were writing a year and half before that.
Q: Why the name “Los Abandoned”?
A: The short story I suppose would be both of us (Don Verde and Lady P) were in other bands at the time and our bands had broken up and we were feeling abandoned. We found we had similar issues. Our band has a sense of humor. It's a joke. It's a funny sounding name so we just went with it. It's kind of punk and silly.
Q: What's with the sound? Very 80s, prog, retro?
A: We’re kind of stuck in our past. We love all the 70s,80s 90s stuff. We get really inspired by whatever we’ve been listening to.
Q: Who are some of your musical influences?
A: We definitely like acts like Blondie, Missing Persons, Cafe Tacuba and Aterciopelados.
Q: The Aterciopelados?
A: It means literally, like, "the velvety ones."
Q: What do you think about playing B-town?
A: We’re excited. I’ve actually never been there. I’ve driven by several times. All those place that not every one stops at have the coolest people there. I gather that Bakersfield is like that as well. It's a less jaded scene. People are a lot more fun to talk to.
Q: What kind of reaction do you guys get when you get up and play? I imagine there's not a ton of Spanglish, New Wave, retro acts out there?
A: I'll put it to you this way, I’m surprised how often people go, "Wow, you guys speak to me." A lot of people speak Spaniglish and there are a lot of people who love the music too. Then some will go, "What is this 'crazy Blondie Spanish thing?" We've turned out those people who didn’t even know what they were getting into. We've gotten a really good response in spite of the fact its just a particular thing that we do. We make a show fun. It's really different. And we do a good job reaching the audience.
Some of the tough crowds are the Spanish (speaking) only. They get upset if you sing in English.
So far we’ve won over all our audeinces. I think that’s a huge accomplishment.
Q: So you're really named David Green but you go by "Don Verde?" See, I figured it out pretty quick who you were since verde is Spanish for green. I have about a six year old's knowledge of Spanish.
A: (Laughing) "Don Verde." People will think "Dawn" Verde is my wife. There’s a story with that to, when we started out kind of erased our past. We'd been in a lot of bands. We decided to forget about all that (and give ourselves newnames). None of that, "Hey, that’s the guy from blah blah blah."
No, just listen to the music.
posted by Danielle Belton @ 9:48 AM
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Anonymous said…
Danielle RULES!! Thanks for the great features!! See Ya Sat!
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