Billy Bond It promises a historic night for August 13, an unavoidable appointment to mark on the calendar. That day in the Great Rex will cause the return of “Billy Bond and the heavy rock” with “Break all II”a promise to redouble the bet, with guest musicians, stories, songs and hymns. A show that proposes legend and memory, celebration, time trip, party, nostalgia, reunion with the Rock Rock, rebellion and emotion.
The Italian Giuliano Canterini He has lived for more than five decades in Brazil and yet it is a legend of rock made in Argentina. He met the best musicians, played with everyone, is part of the living history of the legendary Luna Park and owned the cave, a bar that served as shelter, shelter and launch platform for many emerging rock musicians in Spanish.
From a prodigious memory, he gently lends himself to dialogue with news on a tour full of images and sounds.
News: How do you prepare a show like the one that will do the Great Rex?
Billy Bond: It is quite complex, it is not just a band that has twenty successes, together those songs, sings them on stage and leaves. This is more elaborate because it is a sung book, it is the story that is in my book “Break everything”, edited by Planet. I have transformed it into a theatrical show, counting a little my trajectory from the beginning to this day, going through some memorable moments. I am singing the songs chronologically from the beginning of Rocanrol, my relationship with Sandro. I also talk to the public because at the same time there is a kind of theatricalization with mapped images and projections.
News: He worked with Pappo and the Flaco Spinetta. What do I remember from them?
Bond: The kind of memories you have of the people you want and that has gone from everything, good and bad moments. I have two hundred million anecdotes to count! Artists are missing tremendously, they are strange, they were people with such a big talent, I don’t think something like that can be repeated. Look that we don’t have another Pappo today, another Luis Alberto Spinetta, there is not a figure like Javier Martínez, there are already many who tour.
News: How do you take the issue of nostalgia?
Bond: Look, I deal with respect, but not with excessive importance, I respect all the things that have happened, but I am of scorpio and the scorpion burns all its ships, it changes its skin every time it can, it lives becoming another.
News: The show is called “break everything”, as the mythical phrase that they attribute to having told the public of Luna Park when the police entered to repress in the middle of a recital. Did it really happen like this or is it a legend?
Bond: I answer something very simple, if I had to say that phrase today and were in the same situation of that moment, I would say it, that shows you my intention. Now if I said or not at the time … I don’t remember much that night, the truth is that I don’t even know if any (laughs). As they have made that saying a kind of “leitmotiv” on my legacy, in a way I pick up that myth that people built, do not rename that, is part of my life too, I am already 80 years old and that happened in 1972, imagine yourself.
News: One sees Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan. Is rock a form of survival?
Bond: No, life perspective has changed in the world. Four decades ago a guy who was forty or fifty years old was practically retired, there was no more. Today that extended to the eighties and more, there are people who have ninety and are firm. Did you see Dick Van Dyke dancing? It’s very nice. Somehow continue working, being faithful to what you built in your career and doing things keep you more alive, agile, in shape. The head works and the body too. Then, obviously, if we talk about who sings better or worse, the energy you have twenty is not the same, but you also win things that you did not have at that age, as a great experience and balance.
News: The same must be taken to the stage at that age …
Bond: I would tell you that this is the easiest if you are well physically. I stay, as healthy, I do not smoke, I do not drink, I do not get high, and the result is that I can endure two, three or four hours on the stage without mosquer.
News: You are living in Brazil for five decades. At the time he left because he had to exile?
Bond: That’s right, I had to go in 72 by the military, there was a lot of repression, the thing was Brava and I had somehow punctured them when I sang my version of the march of San Lorenzo, there they said: “To this you have to do it a ballot.” I chose to go to Brazil, but when you exile we all experience the same anywhere, at first you have difficulty because you do not know what will happen with your life, but as time goes by you are accommodating. I have a fairly happy trade, which is music, I was always more producer than a singer and in Brazil I was lucky to meet Ney Matographo and produce it. He there is a figure equivalent to what Charly García is for us, that opened the market a lot, immediately later I worked with Caetano Veloso, I was director of musicals of TV Globo, I did a whole race.
News: Were you co -owner of the La Cueva Bar?
Bond: Yes, I was the owner, but it is true that there were more people in the Piringundin of the beginning. Then I was the owner of four different caves, the first was on Pueyrredón Street, the second was on Rivadavia Avenue, the third in Las Heras Avenue and there was a fourth in addition to a fifth in San Pablo, called Viva Polula, all were mine. Interestingly, 40 or 50 percent of the entire rock and roll market from the seventies forward were seeds of the cave, notice that Luis Alberto Spinetta, Javier Martínez, Pappo, Manal, Fresh Painting, Fresh Painting, connection No. 5, all emerged from those caves. Then they closed and changed the market, but from there came the first “Heavy rock and roll”, where Javier Martínez gave me the song “Go out in the sun.”
News: I read there that there was some controversy about whether Sandro was part of that cave circuit.
Bond: Yes, it was part. It is false that I owned as some say, that was an advertising of the record company, the recorder had made an arrangement with us to take pictures and make notes, in a time a lot of pretending was used that the artists owned places, there was another type of marketing. Radiolandia made a large report that said “Sandro’s cave”, but he never owned, he never cleaned the floor and never paid an account (laughs)
News: Did he see “fierce tango”? Was it a faithful tanguito portrait whom he met so much?
Bond: I saw her and the truth that is not faithful although it is a very well done movie, it is a fiction story where the tanguito figure was used to give it a color and a reason, but it is a novel, it is not close to reality.
News: Did you be reflected in a movie character?
Bond: Interestingly I do not appear and the most expected would be that it was very present because I was the owner of the cave. Tanguito entered earlier because he was a minor, I knew him since I was a child when he was a singer of “Los Dukes”, long before he was known. For me, Tanguito was killed, to kill someone you don’t need to do it with a revolver, they condemned him, they locked him in a asylum, they put him in Cana every day, is to kill him in a thousand ways. Then he fell into the train tracks, we still don’t know how, that story is poorly told.
News: Speaking of stories that were recorded in the popular imaginary, did you manage to bring Queen?
Bond: Yes, we went down to Rio and San Pablo in 1980 and then to Argentina, here we did it with Héctor Cavallero. I also did the first rock in river where Queen was, I took Van Halen, BB King, Alanis Morissette, Jamiroquay, Iron Maiden, to all who come to you. The greatest was Queen because behind them the market opened, today the Rolling Stones come because Queen ever came. If they had not given the initial kick by showing the English and the Yankees that in South America there was money and public no one would have been encouraged, until then they believed that in Brazil there were Indians and in Argentina they only lived gauchos. Please, don’t be bullshit! (laughs) In Brazil the number of inhabitants is equivalent to four Englands, let’s not fuck. The one who saw her was Jim Beach, Queen’s manager who appears a lot in the movie Rasta Bohemia. And when he saw her, he put 110,000 people in the morumbí.
News: We have to finish, I don’t know how I’m going to go home, but I wanted to ask if you don’t have a coin left over …
Bond: I don’t have anything left over, don’t make the boludo (laughs).
