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1985 I went to school in Nicaragua and lived with the
Sandinistas. It was like dropping into a page of
history. I was basically studying revolutionary
slogans that were written on walls, so a lot of the lyrics
for this album came straight off the walls.
On the album
Pachuco Hop we were really diping into latin
American polotics but with a tex-mex dance beat. I mean
if you can't dance to the revolution then what good
is it!! VIVA Tequila Revolution.
The song Pachuco
Hop came to me at a little bamboo airport in the
state of Oaxaxca. It was later recorded by the band
Mano Negra from France and was on their platinum selling
CD Puta Fever. The album Pahuco Hop was
produced by Jim Dickinson, who played piano with the
Rolling Stones.The cumbia Banana was a folk song
I had heard in Nicaragua about how everybody could agree
on their love of Bananas. This has become my plan for
whirled peas. Let's all eat bananas!! You
can also hear Banana and Arriba Sandino
in a Rockford Files movie. Bobby Balderamas' scorching
leads along with Marcelo Guanas' firey accordian licks
makes this my most hard core foray into the Mex sound.
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