Burns the blood, the group that this Friday releases its first album
The musician Marcelo corvaln, now leader of The blood burns, said his experience as a children’s and youth basketball player in Atlanta gave him “that idea of teamwork, of social life, that I still keep in my life as a rocker”.
Corvatta as Corvaln is known, He played basketball in Atlanta in his early 20s, when heavy metal, skateboarding, and BMX bicycles burst into his life like a whirlwind and from there he joined Animal, then Fuck and became a benchmark for alternative hard rock.
Now Corvatta shares the Arde La Sangre project with the guitarist from Hernn “Tery” Langer, producer and guitarist Luciano Farelli (Partplanet) and the drummer Nacho Benavides with which they will release their first album on October 8.
Corvatta revealed that at the age of 10 and living in Villa Crespo, his group of friends joined Atlanta and began to practice different sports. “In 1981, it was the time to go to the club that was the most. Social life, the neighborhood and the family passed within the club or it was completed with physical activity, but also the social activity that was generated within the club “.
Corvatta, in the days of BMX times, in Mar del Plata.
“It was getting out of school, taking off my coat, drinking milk quickly and literally running to the club. I started playing basketball in pre-mini when I was 10 years old, pre-mini A, pre-mini B, then mini A, mini B, cadet A and cadet. B “, relat.
“I was always from a very humble family and we didn’t have color TV or anything, we got home all late, but I had my belonging to the team, to the club. What marked me a lot and I remember were the mini basketball games. Clubs from other provinces were made to come to the Capital and you had to host a player and then you would travel and they would host you. Faith, in Salta, Jujuy, a lot of clubs that year after year you were getting to know and that exchange was set up “, precise the bassist.
Corvatta rescues that “Thanks to basketball I have the memory of social life, friendships, that team mentality, of taking it seriously. Oddly enough, that later helped me a lot with music because I was always a band musician, I don’t see myself as a soloist no matter how much I have done a few things now. That taught me the strength of the team and how it complements and how it works. “
The former member of Animal y Carajo acknowledges that “I wasn’t very skilled, I wasn’t one of the best in the team, but I tried a lot. I went to all training sessions, all of physical high school, so I ran a lot and didn’t get tired so fast, so I scored. that thing of scoring, of running back, of taking care of the hoop, of action, of stealing a ball and looking for the pivot, the highest, and throwing it to him to pocket “.
Corvatta Corvaln junto to Terry Langer, Luciano Farelli and Nacho Benavidez.
When asked if he compared himself to the American Dennis Rodman, Corvatta laughs and points out that “Maybe I was more on the Rodman side, because I liked rock, music and I was half dressed differently than my companions.”
“At one time the T-shirt that I had, an official one that was number 13 because nobody wanted it and they gave it to me, and once we went to play away and lost or stolen it. At that time the club was I was very humble and I was left without a shirt, and an aunt who liked to make it for me and they all played with the official shirt and I was with another that was manufactured until we could buy new shirts for the whole team. It was a little different from the rest. (laughs) “, record.
As a youth, skateboarding and rock appeared in Corvaln’s life and he remembers a band made up of members from Atlanta that greatly influenced him in his desire to play heavy metal.
“We were skateboarding at the club and we had several friends. In Atlanta there was a group of young people who had the first heavy metal band in the country. I could tell you that in the country. His name was Kaos and there were two violent men who were incredible. they played the songs of Metallica or Megadeth and I didn’t understand anything. “
Trasher magazine was the one that brought him closer to the culture of skateboarding and heavy metal, because “That’s how you handled all the data. You learned about skate bosses like Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, but also the magazine had notes with punk, metal and hardcore bands and that’s how I met Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, the bands of punk like Bad Religion, Social Distortion, Ramones and Dead Kennedys. “
The Corvatta skateboard deck, a collector’s item.
Corvatta assured that the “Skate has been with me until today. I went around to die and when I started playing professionally I stopped walking so as not to hurt myself, just in case, but I’m always out for fun. With my daughters who are now grown up, they are 20 and 16, since they were little I taught them to skateboard and by 5 or 6 they already knew how to walk. We have some longboards and every so often we walk through Madero or those places to enjoy “.
Corvatta marked as a precursor to the activity Wallas, the vocalist and leader of Massacre, whom “Look around the bowl of Ciudad Universitaria where there was the only large professional ramp that Los Massacre had built with their skater friends”.
“After there they went more to the side of the KDT circuit, they had set up a ramp that later they called La Roca where they met, but it lasted a short time and then La Roca 2 was made in the KDT circuit and They went there. At that time I was riding a bike, I had a BMX and a group of friends who went everywhere. We waited for everyone to leave and then let’s get on with the bike, because there was itch between bikers and skaters because skaters They wouldn’t let you get in because they said that if you fell, you would break them all with the braces of the bike and there was a fight, then we hoped they would leave and get in “.
On the skateboards, Corvatta recalls that as his childhood and adolescence were spent in times of hyper inflation, “First I was in those toy ones to learn and then there was a brand called Ron Jon that was in Marcelo T de Alvear and Callao, over there, and sell. They were national, Argentine industry, I think they were from Mar del Plata. Very heavy, re hard, with some bad national tracks and they didn’t work. A few years later Trash, the skate brand was founded in Argentina, and Luis who was the owner was a kid who walked and came to concerts then when he saw you that You were doing well I gave you one, then we all ended up walking with the Trash. “
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