When he was 17 years old I met a person at the Santa Maria University who questioned much of the few groups that then I liked. He said that the world had more than Metallica, Limp Bizkit and Korn. It had nothing against the Beatles, but frowned when I stated that some songs Mana did not seem to me bad. A few months earlier he had dedicated phone "Scratching the sun". I do not sing, I hit the horn only to the player with the hope that they would kiss me a few days.
Despite the arrogance of his words, there was no contempt for that person. Rather, it became a precious classmate. But soon left the race of Social Communication, we keep talking and sharing music for one or two years. Now part of the Venezuelan diaspora.
It was Sergio Moreno who spoke with emotion of Radiohead, who burned Pablo Honey and gave it to me before hand me a CD with songs in MP3 -bajadas of Limewire- as "Karma Police", "Let Down" and "Just". At that time I added a great band to my life. I started buying his records. Missing Board's store Sambil became a place to visit frequently. That bought Kid A, Ammnesiac, extrañísimos albums for teenagers discovering other musical interests.
Obviously he wanted to see them live. Then my friend, who did not want to be a journalist but an ambassador or foreign minister, told me about an Internet campaign to collect, if my memory serves me correctly, some 10,000 signatures to bring Venezuelan Radiohead producer. To achieve the goal, we had to print and copy to a flyer card size which invited people to join a website and sign the petition
Remember posters printed about 100 of those. I hit in college and around the CVA Center. We met in La Candelaria, where we would share the material.
Although messages were not in favor of anarchism or fall of capitalism, he felt he was doing a subversive activity. I was excited, but deep down he felt it was impossible, almost a utopia. niguna had no statistics, but sensed that there was a shortage of public for the band and the accounts were not going to be positive for the company were to think about that possibility. In addition, it was 2001 and the political crisis was becoming tuff.
I read the news of the world tour that Radiohead will undertake and remember those days, especially when you see the dates in Mexico patterned -2 and 4 October 2016. They were months of discovery in which a brilliant and exceptional conjutno accompanied me in that passage from adolescence to adulthood. I turn to the chords of the British frequently and greatness remains intact, albeit one that does not yet understand The King of Limbs.
