“When we met we discovered that we had met at many concerts (…) We had even fallen asleep in one of Jerry Garcia’s…”he said in an interview with Relix Media.
At that time – the late seventies and early eighties – it was regular chronicler of the New York music scene. He published his criticisms in media such as SoHo Weekly News, New York Rocker o The Village Voice.
When he jumped from the other side, to the scene itself, he entered from behind. Because of the cables. For electricity. He was a sound technician and, later, a support musician in small local bands.
He boom culture of the 60s was left behind. New York had a different energy. The economic crisis, the experimental, the marginality, the combined arts and graffiti were heavy links of the most authentic.
Her parents were entertainers. They made experimental films with unusual techniques. He grew up among drawings. Hence, at school he chose the visual over the sound (and that was marked by a talk he gave John Lennon the historic day he visited the school).
It took a while until the collaborative aspect of music took her out of the solitude of painting. I used to attend recitals of the punk scene or new wave New Yorker, in her case she entered the other side not from behind, but from in front: she jumped from the fields to the stages to be a drummer in a friend’s band.
They have been together for more than forty years. Photo: InstagramSpecialized media, such as Pitchfork, They specify that they met in Maxwell’s from Hoboken, New Jersey, while they watched The Feelies on the weekend of July 4, 1980. But the exact beginning of their romance remains uncertain.
Not much time passed between making their relationship official and creating the band with which they would go hand in hand for the rest of their lives.
The name of the group they formed in 1984 that disorients the distracted came to them from a baseball anecdote starring two players from the New York Metsa club of which he is a fan. Curiously, one of them was Venezuelan: Elio Chacon.
Yo la Tengo has more than 17 studio albums. Photo: Cheryl DunnCouple and band developed together with the same intensity, solidity and the common denominator of a low profile. Without giving explanations, without excessive displays of affection, without contracts with major labels, without strident collaborations (with the exception of Yoko Ono), without looking for hits.
He told El País: «Our thing worked from the beginning. And it got better as our sound improved.»
With 17 studio albums and forty years under their belt, today they make up one of the most experienced American independent bands acclaimed by international critics. A rare phenomenon that, if an analogy can be drawn with football, is comparable to that of clubs that keep the same technical director for decades.
Ira Kaplan y Georgia Hubley They are a cultured and cult couple. Together they are I have it.
The band at a side show at Music Wins, in Argentina. Photo: ClarínWith James McNewtheir bassist since ’92, played over the weekend at the Music Wins from Buenos Aires. It was his return to Argentina after eleven years.
The explanation for its perseverance may have to do with that ability to stay. Once again it was demonstrated – on this occasion before his faithful South Americans – that music, couples and love They function, in their case, as a trifecta that feeds on each other. I have it will continue, like true love, until the m… separate them.
