By Luis Paz. Culture & Entertainment - Página/12, April 13, 2011 .- speak five languages, have been part of the board of a football club and participated in the film are made Avatar curriculum that, in the thick, are hardly comparable to a punk musician. In this case, the exception has a name: Duncan Reid, bassist of British punk band The Boys, who returned to play three and a half decades after the appearance of seminal punk bed and will be presented tomorrow at The Roxy Live (Vega Niceto 5542, at 21). "Before punk, the music was terrible," opens the door to back to review certain aspects of this movement, but from a perspective far less organic as much about punk music, as aesthetics and as worker-student expression. In principle, we could abstract to The Boys of the varied mass of British punk bands of '76-'77 for his sense of humor and the base of influences. "In those early years, for some reason, almost certainly related to the political context of the UK, the British bands were not allowed to have a sense of humor, which itself was easy to see in the New York scene, especially bands like The Ramones. There must be serious as the Clash or cynical as The Jam, but it was well regarded to be funny. I think that was a punk attitude that was in The Boys: stand apart even from the scene of our country, "he says. And actually, The Boys was a band satellite to move something: his reminiscences of The Beatles and Rolling Stones too congenial with other nearby groups, which in any case could look at The Who. "But at the same time, we were a band very central, because many of them, like The Damned, Generation X or the Sex Pistols, recorded their demos in the home studio that was (lead singer), Matt Dangerfield. "
their only album released in Argentina, compiled Satisfaction guaranteed, take the title in English is not coincidental with that logic going into Castilian lost the names of the works (just remember the disastrous conversion Please Please Me, The Beatles, the Please, I with that published Odeon Pop), but a particular search of connection and understanding: "I speak English because we played a lot in Spain, my second language is French and I manage with the German and Portuguese. I would be very frustrating not being able to communicate with young people when we play at a place. " Reid's statement is also university: "One day I went to college when I was 17, to see what it was. It took a professor at my school. I liked it and decided to devote myself to music, what my parents did not like. Just came punk, touched me and gave me good projects to spend my youth, but when it's over I enrolled in engineering, "says a final decision that ended up closer to the technical working group Avatar , another of his curious achievements. "Ah, in the medium also drove a rising football club here in England."
Beyond the gains with The Boys (four discs, including one Christmas, constant touring Japan and Scandinavia; a comic in his honor, recordings with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards), Reid appears to be an inexhaustible source of anecdotes: even worked in works of Andrew Lloyd Webber. "It was an interesting time, I traveled all over the world to be part of the band of his music. You know, I now realize that I always did things that were related to my passions: music, engineering and football. Bet it has little to do with the logic of the damned we all think he would have a punk musician, is not it? ".
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