His debut album was called 30 years of successBut “no kidding” they would have imagined that three decades later Los Toreros Muertos would be on the roadassures its leader, the actor and singer Pablo Carbonell. The veteran band of the eighties, who became known with his particular mix of humor and musicperforms tomorrow in Sant Feliu de Guíxols to open the celebration of the sixty years of the legendary Las Vegas room.
Carbonell defines the group as “a kind of superpower”, which allows it “to do things that other mortals cannot do”. “For the musical scene, such a band is like a stain on a bride’s dress, a black format of the pop universe, because he is the slave who goes after the emperor reminding him that he is human. This is our contribution to the world of show business”, says the Andalusian about the “less pompous group on the national scene”, born so that “people don’t take everything we musicians do so seriously”. “We are aware that what we do is a bit of a let-down, but there are people who don’t”, he sums up.
“In the 80s I was a clown with Pedro Reyes and I saw music groups as semi-divine beings, and that grudge, the ugly duckling feeling, made me create Los Toreros Muertos to make fun of his attitude», diu.
«If Los Toreros Muertos came out now, we’d be a misunderstood group. People understood our satire when we were born and he saw our perverse intent to shatter established patternss, we were a group that laughed at groups”, says Carbonell.
It is considered “heir of the fight againststar system» of musicians such as Frank Zappa or Javier Krahe, whom Los Toreros Muertos paid tribute to in their last album, Javier Krahe public school. “His way of satire was attractive to me and it fit with my way of understanding life,” says the comedian, who is currently also on tour with a Spanish version ofThe creditthe theatrical text by Jordi Galceran.
Asked if the political correctness current would now allow songs like I am a Falangist, he says: “already at the time, the falangists threw themselves at us, when anyone with sense sees that it is a reduction to the idiocy of an outdated political program”. “In general, I’m a person with little malice, if you listen to the song Boom Boom 1789, which talks about storming the royal palace and raping the queen and the children, you will tell me that it is barbaric, and I will answer that it is, and that it is a tribute to Pirates of the Caribbean”, he jokes.
New projects
Regarding the concerts he has been doing lately, he says they have “a new dynamic, more danceable but without feeling the clown part».
“I’ve always had some very bad musicians, without doing it on purpose I’ve never paid attention to music, although now I’m more concerned,” says Pablo Carbonell, who recently renewed his training.
“Now I have a great bass player, Albert Anguela, and maybe I’ll be encouraged to record new tracks, because before the pandemic we recorded almost a whole album and when I listen to it now I think, it’s worthless. Maybe with the new formation I will resume the project”, says the musician.
The other project he has in hand is Toreros Con Chanclas, a formation that fuses its repertoire with that of No Me Pises Que Llevo Chanclas. “We realized that we have songs that work like a mirror: we merged the two bands, we made a video clip and the phone is blowing smoke to bowl, it must be a symptom of the apocalypse: when the world ends people want laugh”, says Pablo Carbonell.