RAVALES
Eddie Auffray of Lightning Strike relocated to Barcelona and recently joined a punk rock band called Ravales. “After about 6 months, I started to put out adverts and eventually got back into playing. Maxi Santapa (vocals/bass) put Ravales together based around his skate shop HEY HO SKATE. I was put forward by the (then) drummer, auditioned and joined. Drummer left due to personal circumstances, and Mauricio Schneider joined.”
Paul Fischer reports about their debut album: “Ravales’ debut album Barrio Chino has just been released [2012] and is a fierce collection of 17 punked-up rocky gems. At its best it really does sound like Steve Jones and Paul Cook [of Sex Pistols] playing a Ramones set, albeit mostly sung in Spanish!”
In December 2014, Ravales released a Christmas single (!) called Merry Jingle Bells featuring punk-rock versions of “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” and “Jingle Bells”.
(September 2016)
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Since I am down to a quarterly schedule rather than a monthly schedule, my annual list is a lot shorter, so I will try listing all of the people that I have discussed in some depth rather than just the Under Appreciated Rock Band and the Story of the Month. They are all punk rock bands of one kind or another this year (2015-2016), and the most recent post includes my overview of the early rap/hip hop scene that an old friend, George Konstantinow challenged me to write – probably so long ago that he might have forgotten.
September 2016 – 1980’s punk/rap band LIGHTNING STRIKE; Story of the Month on Patti Smith; also, Hamilton, School of Rock, MFSB, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Bob Dylan, Run-D.M.C., Aerosmith, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, the Fat Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Kid ’N Play, MC Hammer, Rick James, Vanilla Ice, Blondie / Deborah Harry, Salt-N-Pepa, the Sugarhill Gang, Nile Rodgers / Chic, Ravales.
(Year 7 Review)
