Before the Big Bang

Yes, it's true... life existed before the Big Bang or, what it means in my case, I used to listen other music before my Dire Straits addiction.

Now that I think about it, it was a bit more than just listening to music. As I remember, those times were a lot about beeing something... Heavies, Mods, Rockers, New Romantics... In those late 70's and early 80's it was almost a must to identify with one of those urban tribes. Honestly, never got too much into those kinda things but my first memories come more associated to what here was called the Heavy movement than to any other thing.

Amongst other bands, probably Iron Maiden was one of my preferred. Some kind of fascination for their Eddie mascot had probably a lot to do with it, decorating my books and other stuff with their covers and wearing t-shirts with pictures of that funny evil was just a part of it. By the way, there was a game, a first person shooter, released in late 90's Ed Hunter, where Eddie plays a main role... :-)

Of course this theme is part of music history for me. And it's part of their history too, as they were branded as Satanics for their album with same title, their concerts banned in some countries like Chile, their discs burned up in public...

"As they start to cry, hands held to the sky.

In the night, the fires are burning bright,
The ritual has begun, Satan’s work is done.
666 the number of the beast.
Sacrifice is going on tonight."

Make your own opinion, hehe...

There were other bands, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Deep Purple,... and of course, real good spanish ones like Ñu, Baron Rojo, Leño, ...

No doubt this is part, and an important one, of spanish music. As part of spanish music, at least for me, and another important part, is this small jewell I leave to finish this blog. Probably most spanish readers will remember the "Discoplay" catalog, what was one of the most important contributions to music distribution in Spain.

They had to close their services years ago, but I found recently they scanned and published all the catalogs since 1982, just take a look at it if you want to recall this little pieze of history.

http://www.archivodocumentaldiscoplay.info/