| Yabba
Ding Dings' are pre-colombian artifacts found on the bay
island of Honduras. I don't have any because I think it's
bad mo-jo.
This CD
which has never been available before in the US takes
a very different direction from the previous two.
Whereas Que Wow and Quesadilla were nuevo
wavo pop driven music. Yabba hits more on politics
and my Tex-Mex roots. I really sacrificed some
brain cells to make this one!!!
Larry Monroe
from KUT-FM Austin had the idea for Current Events
Are Making Me Tense. We used it in a song for an
anti nuke rally. Who Buy the Guns, is about
El Salvador and the troubles there. Cucaracha Taco
is about how the poor people will survive a nuclear
holocaust cause they eat cucaracho tacos and Fuera
Yanqui is about the US military presence in Central
America during that time.
In the summer
of 1983 the band went down to Colombia South America
to play. Colombia is home to the cumbia beat and also
valenato, which is a fast accordion tropical style.
A DJ friend of mine, Camilo Pombo in Bogota, really
got me back into being excited about these styles of
melodies. Latin melody is very simple, and thats
what I love about it.
In 1985 Dinero
turned into my biggest European hit. About this
time Kris Cummings left the band and Marcelo Gauna,
who played accordion, and Bobby Balderama from ? and
the Mysterians joined up. On the tail end of this
CD you can hear their influences on Viva San Antone
and Chicano Town.
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