Ericcson: I like Rage Against The Machine and some of us, we have been linked to the political issue of Venezuela. I’m a journalist and that has led me to other things that many people sometimes don’t perceive. When you go down the street that is a thing that comes a lot rap, the rapper usually grabs all those elements that are on the street and begins to build a speech and that discourse is growing. It's funny that we've seen a lot in social networks how the rap is discriminated in the rock, it's a matter of ignorance because people don’t know how complex it’s to write rap concepts. That's what I learned with Mr. Beat Jagger who has been in that process. It’s a very complex subject that goes from the grammar composition of the themes, the blows, the lines, that sounds, that makes sense and coherence, but we have always wanted to say things that people, of course, want to hear and identify and say: Hey, that happened to me. We’re not hypocritical in what we say in the lyrics. It has happened to us, we have lived that, we have gone through this social process and who has not been the victim of the underworld in Venezuela? Who is not fed up with the political rolls?
We want to tell people "come and listen to us, but we reflect on what is happening in the country" and it’s something that doesn’t attract us much in entertainment, because we entertain ourselves while we say, come and have a debate. The real rap speak about of that social issue of the need to say things from different points of view: human rights, racial rights, there will be a lot of things that have been distorted. The frantic sound is given by an arsenal of instruments, among them: the classic Telecaster that like the heavier sound and therefore, the solos sound with a fuller sound.
Ericcsson: For us it was an amazing experience. I think it was a drastic change. Begin to see music from another point of view, more professional. Also, when Victor arrived, he totally changed the band Beat Jagger arrived and changed the band again, everything was like a process of evolution and fast. From there we started playing and playing and we want to continue playing. Victor comes from a totally different school than he imagined, because several years ago he was working on the team with a band like Deftones and even Iron Maiden, which adds another hue to Chinelo.
Víctor: I took some of the music because I already had enough time in that and I didn’t get bands here in Venezuela. I got into a page called Mercado de Bateristas to sell my battery and I saw an ad of Ericsson that said: Influences Rage Against The Machine, Deftones. One of my two favorite bands. I wrote and we squared. That was a Wednesday. Already on Saturday I was rehearsing and from there we stopped. We've been a year and a half.
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Written by: Michelle Ozza Rodriguez
