Giants of rock and metal like Foo Fighters or Metallica have already done it, and it was time to do it here: bringing together hundreds of musicians with their idols to live together an unusual sound and human experience, on a grand scale, by reappropriating music as a collective and above all, instrumental and non-digital action. This is what the Crazy Rock Band, “the biggest rock band in Spain”, offers, which has already given concerts in Quintanar de la Orden and at the Alcázar de San Juan (with a fair of instruments and a children’s leisure area included) which have won two Guinness Records (for the most drummers playing a crescendo and the loudest snare hit) and in which legends such as Fortu (Obús), M-Clan, Iñaki Uoho (Platero y Tú, Extremadura), El Drogas (ex Barricada), Kutxi Romero (Marea), Yosi (Los Suaves), Carlos Escobedo (Sôber) and Miguel Costas (ex Siniestro Total) repeat during the third edition which will take place this Saturday in La Coverta de Leganés. (10 p.m., tickets from 15 euros), and was also joined by Rulo, leader of La Contrabanda (and formerly of La Fuga), who just this Friday returns to the record scene by releasing an album recorded in live one of the best festivals in Madrid, “Una noche en el Botánico”. “I really wanted to sing with the Crazy Rock Band, in fact I couldn’t the previous times because it coincided with my tours, but I blocked this date so as not to miss it”, explains the Cantabrian artist, who plans to dedicate yourself fully to enjoy “a meeting with old friends during which we will celebrate life and rock”. The proposal came from Carlos Escobedo, promoter of the project, “and it seemed so original and wonderful to me that I did not hesitate to take on the challenge,” he says. Rulo, whose first concert, at ten years old, was precisely with one of his co-stars, Yosi, “when Los Suaves played at the Reinosa Sports Pavilion, on December 30, when it was a cold hell. The room wasn’t full, but Yosi gave a great concert that convinced me that I wanted to do the same things as him when I grew up. Becoming friends with him is one of the gifts music has given me. Related news Standard No Sôber: “The Main 40 said ‘no more guitars’, and the trends changed towards other genres that don’t make us think” Nacho Serrano The Spanish metal icon re-recorded his first album and the comes out in a “deluxe” box set full of details for fans. Rulo thinks the event is “a highlight” because he will “learn something.” jokes the singer and guitarist. “Plus, in this day and age where there are so many soloists, it’s cool to do something with such a big, gigantic group. The best thing that can happen to you at twenty is to be in a group. But now you see young kids starting out as soloists, and it’s like another world. I think that in Spain we continue to owe a debt to rock at the media level, and I say it with all the affection in the world. You go to Argentina and urban music is at its peak there, but not to the detriment of rock! There, rock is still a very strong movement, with a lot of presence on a daily basis, but not here. It’s a shame, because on general radio they don’t play rock, because they don’t even play guitars, almost nothing that is done with instruments, and if you go to a specialized radio, they play the same classics all day “Rulo, during his concert recorded on the live album ‘Una noche en el Botánico abcVarious moments from the event ‘Crazy Rock Band’ abcAlthough it seems that digital music is destroying everything, Rulo assures that there is a buzz with the return of instruments to the spotlight “It is talked about among the people of the world. Children are taking up the basses, the guitars and the drumsticks, and there is an explanation for that. We’ve been listening to music created with the same tool, the computer, for years and in the end, everything sounds almost the same. Plus, young people are once again realizing the pleasure that comes from having a guitar vibrate in your hands. It’s therapeutic! for psychological and emotional well-being, I have found it especially during the pandemic. When you create music by pasting tracks into a computer program with your keyboard and mouse, you don’t feel anything special. Because it’s not the ending that’s fun. That’s how it is.” MORE INFORMATION ‘Piedra contra tijera’, the story of survival of Spanish rock in the 30 years of decline of the genreIn addition to his new live album, recorded at Las Noches del Botánico last year , Rulo will publish on November 28, his first fiction novel, “A Question of Luck”. “It took me three years to finish it because I have a lot of respect for the word ‘novel’,” says the musician and writer, whose book will tell us the story of someone who is on the verge of becoming a multimillionaire, “but far giving joy, he begins to rethink many things in his life. Another good lesson for future rock stars.
