Music seems to be my obsession these days as whenever I feel happy or sad I just like hearing it as the variety of music in the world is astonishing. What most people don’t know about me is that I’m a big Mexicano Regional music fan and when they find out they are surprised to hear so. Well, last Saturday I went to a concert at the convention center in San Jose, mostly because one of my favorite Norteno bands, Los Tucanes de Tijuana was coming to play. There were also other bands such as El Komander, La Original Banda El Limon, and Voz del Mando but I don’t know their music as much as I do Los Tucanes. Out of all the preceding bands before Los Tucanes played, I thought La Original was pretty damn awesome due to the fact that the other bands were singing fast paced and I can’t really understand what they are singing about. I had never heard La Original besides back in the 90’s when they had a different singer in Julio Preciado but these new guys actually left an impression on me. They sang such songs as Derecho de Antiguedad, El Maestro, Que me Digan Loco, Entre Perico y Perico, and Al Menos. They left an impression on me due to the sheer quality of music they sang and I also thought the instruments were pretty bad ass as well. Whenever I see a big band playing it’s pretty cool to think of how in sync these guys must be in order to be able to get all there notes right in order to please an audience full of people who payed good money to see them. Then came Los Tucanes and I tried my best to sing along with all their awesome hits such as Mis Tres Animales, Mis Tres Viejas, El Jefe de La Sierra, Amor Platonico, Mundo de Amor, La Chona, El Papa de Los Pollitos, La Chona, El Cetenario, and Soy Todo Tuyo. When they came out I thought about all the great songs that they’ve sang over the years and they still sound as tight as they do with Mario Moreno writing almost all their songs and some of them have some real good themes to them. My personal opinion, he is one of the top 5 song writers in Mexican Music due to the sheer honesty he puts in the songs they perform. On my favorite song from them, La Recompensa, tells the story of how several bands of drug traffickers are having a meeting yet the police is offering 5 million dollars to whoever can give them the hiding spot of where they are and at the end of the song someone gets it but he ends up dead which is ended with the saying it’s better to be poor and alive than dead and rich. Anyway, seeing them and having my parents there made me realize how much it meant to have my parents there. Whenever I’m with my mom or my dad and we hear an artist we both like it’s better to have that connection of hearing what the guy or gal is saying to be in sync with what the other person is feeling. I feel much better when me and my dad are riding in his jeep and we just blast some Antonio Aguilar, Felipe Arriaga, or even some Vicente Fernandez does the trick. Personally, after watching Los Tucanes de Tijuana perform I felt proud to be apart of something special and something unique in Mexican culture-the influence of the Corrido. Corridos are like the tall tales of men dying, relationships as a story, folklore sayings, and even drug deals. I realized that corridos are an essential part of our culture and it needs to be with us from here till eternity. Whether they are sang as covers or written originally they are an essential part of our story and it will continue to be part of us for many decades(here are some pictures of the concert)
Just Another Day... 