This band opened for some of the biggest bands in the day, but for some reason are not that well known.
This ties in to something I was thinking about this just the other day, how so many of the bands from the really early days were just abandoned by the audience after their initial impact. Whilst Stray themselves made a decent splash they never attained 'top division' status, but the likes of Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf, the James Gang etc went from being arena headliners in the early 70s to playing clubs & state fairs just a few short years later. Granted, all those groups tarnished their legacies (to some degree) with some of their releases during that time, but they never seemed to claw back any of that lost ground with any of their better releases. They were only ever travelling in the wrong direction after the initial success.
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Yeah, that seems to be the case from what i'm hearing on a compilation album i downloaded called 'Need Ei Vaata Tagasi...(1971-1988)'. Still, it's really well done & there are some ballsy moments along the way too, so i will make the time to give it a proper listen.
Also not as old or probably "proto" as most stuff posted here but Uruguay's Psiglo was certainly on the forefront of heaviness in South America, at least with this track, back from 73.
I'm not sure if you're referring to Argentina specificallly or South America in general, (and it also depends on your definition of 'heavy' of course), but i think you're being just a wee bit harsh.
Yeah, maybe I was a bit blunt. There were some exceptions here and there, but as you mentioned, mostly limited to 7", if that, and they didn't really make an impact on the scene. Some of them are also just hearsay and who knows if they were actually heavy or not. Outside Argentina there was certainly more heavy bands than around here, so I'm not all that familiar with them but compared to the rest of the so called "western" world, we were quite behind as a continent. Of course, there's a lot of context reasons for that (many South American countries were under dictatorships that would ban such music) but the truth is that we didn't get a real wave of heavy music until around the mid 80s. In part, I think it also explains the uniqueness of South American metal, specially the extreme stuff, because they were kids who went from AC/DC to Slayer in just a matter of months. The same kinda thing happened later in the European Eastern Bloc.bigfootkit wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 1:32 amI'm not sure if you're referring to Argentina specificallly or South America in general, (and it also depends on your definition of 'heavy' of course), but i think you're being just a wee bit harsh.
Yeah, that is probably true, though the majority of South American countries seem to have managed at least one release that could be termed 'heavy' (at least in the context of the style & time frame we're discussing). As you say, lots of complex reasons for that which varied from country to country, but the urge/will to play harder seems to have been there at least, even if the equipment or audience were scarce at that time. Many of the prog/psych bands which existed managed to smuggle some heavier passages into their sound at least, and if you like that style of music South American had some great highly individual & unusual bands in that mould.Cochino wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 6:23 amcompared to the rest of the so called "western" world, we were quite behind as a continent.bigfootkit wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 1:32 amI'm not sure if you're referring to Argentina specificallly or South America in general, (and it also depends on your definition of 'heavy' of course), but i think you're being just a wee bit harsh.
kids who went from AC/DC to Slayer in just a matter of months. The same kinda thing happened later in the European Eastern Bloc.
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