NATIONAL [PREFERRED TERM] MONTH, PT 3

If you're going to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month (or whatever you want to call it), and you're going to touch on culture or music, you're going to need a longer month. I won't be able to get to every band that merits posting, so I'll start with the ones that you might not be familiar with. Los Saicos have been here before (last posted three years ago) but they merit reposting no matter the circumstances. If you were to just see the photo above, they look like any other mid-sixties band. Now, take a look at the photo below. How'd you like to go against them in a battle of the bands? Think it's just that photo? Listen to them.

Here's what I remember about their backstory. They got a quick start thanks to lucking into a TV appearance (or was it more then one?), barely knew how to play, recorded six singles and then called it quits. No dispute, no drama. They just stopped playing. How many bands can you name that should have called it quits after their first twelve songs? How many can you name that, out of twelve songs, had one called "Camisa de Fuerza" ("Straightjacket") and another "Demolicion" ("Demolition")? Shit, listen to the first thirty seconds of "Fugitivo de Alcatraz" and tell me that isn't primordial Stooges. Even the band shot above, that prop they've got dangling over the car door (or should I say beat ass rusty old truck door) is all you need to know. For real.

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Listen:
Los Saicos - Camisa de Fuerza mp3 at Laoficinalive
Los Saicos - Fugitivo de Alcatraz mp3 at Berceuse Electrique
Los Saicos - Salvaje mp3 at Tape Wrecks
Los Saicos - Cemetenterio (streaming) at YouTube
Los Saicos - Demolicion (streaming) at YouTube
Los Saicos - Ana mp3 at Tumblr
Los Saicos - Besando A Otras mp3 at Tumblr
Los Saicos - Complete discography (streaming) at YouTube 12 songs
Video:
Was Punk Rock Born in Peru? - Los Saicos documentary at YouTube 13 minutes
Saicomania trailer at YouTube
Los Saicos - El Entierro De Los Gatos (live, Spain, 2010) at YouTube
Visit:
Where did punk begin? A cinema in Peru at The Guardian UK
Los Saicos at Wikipedia