2023-06-21 08:04:06
Second European tour of the Mexicans Dr. Tritón. Almost two months for five countries. There have been 14 concerts in Spain, the last one on Tuesday at La Nube de Santutxu. Today, Wednesday, they fly to Italy and there they will continue the Eurotour to promote their second album, ‘Suite Poseidón’ (2020), which follows their debut, ‘Surfing contest’ (2016). The doctors, named Karman, Baby Kurt, Johnny Guaycura and Dalí Mamba, come out on stage masked in Mexican wrestling hoods. Their faces were not seen in La Nube, although the leader and spokesman once compared: “Beautiful like us without masks.”
With two Fender guitars, a bassist who liked to jump and a drummer who, if someone with a camera was close to him, would juggle drumsticks, the four members dressed in very cool surf shirts, in 61 minutes they performed 16 surf instrumentals. salty and bubbly, melodically meaty, superior to that of his fellow masked compatriots Lost Acapulco. Even, excuse me, better than Los Straitjackets from Nashville, TN, other anonymous wrestling masks. Above also the Catalan-Hawaiian Tiki Phantoms. And similar to Los Coronas from Madrid in their first days, when they didn’t blow the trumpet.
Listening to Dr. Tritón’s repertoire was like listening to a compilation of guitar surf instrumental classics. The four Aztecs had the lesson well learned from the melodies of Los Ventures (‘Arrumaco Reef’), from the violent vibrato of Dick Dale recovered by Tarantino (‘Surferhéroe’, with a coda imitating the master Link Wray, then ‘The Clash’; for true, his son Jimmy Dale will perform on Thursday June 29 at the Crazy Horse in Bilbao), from Los Surfaris optimistas (‘Surfing contest’, ‘The kiss of Poseidon’), and from Europeans like Los Pekenikes (‘Carrera submarina’) and Los Shadows (‘Miramar’, by the Hotel Miramar in Todos Los Santos, Baja California, one of the most relaxed songs of the lot; um…, maybe on the record it’s called ‘Hotel Pichilingue’).
Recognizable versions included a hybrid between A-ha’s ‘Take on me’ and Michael Sembello’s ‘Maniac’; then a surprising ‘At dawn’ by Los Fresones Rebeldes de Barcelona (with the parish of La Nube, only about 33 survivors, mostly from the 21st Azkena Rock Festival; there was also an immigrant, a Mexican who waved her flag at the end), and to close Link Wray’s ‘Run Chicken Run’.
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