“Since I was nine years old, they say that rock and roll is going to disappear. I’m going to have a 50th anniversary party for the times that it was said that there was no more rock and roll,” he said ironically in a recent interview with the Télam agency.
Juanse is perhaps the greatest exponent, and greatest reference, of a subgenre known as “rock stone” or “rolling rock”, this due to its deep link to the Rolling Stones. With the paranoid mice they were a kind of stone embassy in our country, that generated a wide legion of followers, but it also caused them to be reviled by a certain purist arc of national rock.
beyond the criticism Juanse can boast of having the friendship and respect of the greatest artists of our rock, including the remembered (and missed) Luis Alberto Spinetta who several times shared the stage with him and also gave him perhaps one of the greatest honors he has ever had, the skinny guy recorded his own version of dirty star for his album San Cristofaro.
If we talk about the greats of our rock, we cannot fail to mention Charlie Garcia Already daddyintimate enemies who had something in common, his friendship with Juanse. In a talk he had via zoom with Andres Cyrus Martinez During the quarantine, both musicians delighted their followers with great anecdotes, including that of the friction that Charly and Carpo had during the recording of the MTV Unplugged of 1998. There Juanse He detailed how both musicians sparked during their presentation, but the music (and he appreciated that both had for him) was stronger.
Going back to the beginning, hand in hand with their first three albums, the paranoid mice They managed to take over the underground scene with a sound and aesthetic proposal different from the one that predominated in the eighties. Those were times of graffiti, cement, darkness, perspiration and a raw sound that would gradually mutate towards the characteristic sound that would make them sound everywhere.
The arrival of the nineties would see the Mice sign a contract with Sony, and from there a succession of events would take place that would mark them forever: working with Andrew Loog Oldham historical producer Rolling Stonesto be a fundamental part of the first show of Keith Richards in Argentina, the recording of the album made in memphis which included the participation of mickey taylor and be the opening act for the Rolling Stones on his first visit to the country in 1995.
Parallel to his leadership of the Mice, Juanse recorded a solo album called Express Bongo (1997). The release was accompanied by rumors of disbandment by the band. Something that finally did not happen but the excesses of Juanseboth in his position within the gang as an authoritarian leader, and outside of it, abusing drugs and alcohol tightened the rope more and more.
The arrival of “the little fox” Fabian Quintiero as a new bassist he gave the band some fresh air, this would be reflected in the success of “Forever” and the disk “turning”. However, Quintiero would leave the mice in 2007, giving the return of Paul Memi after ten years away. But for a story to claim to be good, there must be a real fall that leads to a subsequent resurrection. This is how it happened in this case: in 2011 Juanse announced his departure from the band, the rest of the members found out through the media.
The stoppage of the band gave rise to continue with his solo career, that year he edited Lunar Barrens. By 2013 he finished forming his solo group called Juanse and the Lunatic Beasts along with Pedi (former Young Beggars), Ponch (former La 25) and Gaby Pérez. Together they edit the album Rock is equal love.
In 2014 the album is released Pappo x Juanse with songs from his friend Norbert Napolitano. In 2017 there was a long-awaited moment for his followers with the return of the Ratones to the stage in a massive recital at the Hippodrome of Palermo. The intervention of Ferdinand Szereszvsky manager of Juansewho set the meeting as a task and managed to iron out rough edges within the group.
Today Juanse is turning 60 and will celebrate it in a big way with a sold-out show with great anticipation in the mythical moon park. The musician will be accompanied by his current band mustang cowboys who lines up his former partner in paranoid mice the bass player Paul Memi; to the guitarist punch and the drummer John Colonna. It will be a show that promises a review of his classic songs from the Mice as well as those from his solo stage, guests, emotions and above all a lot of rock and roll.
Source: Ambito
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