Friends is for me a pleasure and a great satisfaction to have achieved during these two years I published my blog "MEMORIES 80TAS, 90TAS AND MORE ", interview (which I never imagined) to characters I admired since childhood to be part of groups that I grew up and went through one of the most difficult and most beautiful time in the life of all , adolescence. Figures like Daniel Verdi (Kashmir), Alexis Peña (Iceberg), Gilberto Bermúdez (Hydra), Nicky Scarola (Resistance), Gerardo Ubiedo (Iceberg), Felix Duque (Radio Clip) gave us the opportunity to learn more about their lives and careers but also showed that apart from being excellent musicians are much better as people. Forever thank them for helping selflessly to translate what I consider one of the best decades of National Rock. Today December 24, 2007, on the eve of the celebration of Christmas I have the immense pride of being able to define and finalize an interview I always thought I could not miss this blog and is nothing more and nothing less than Mannel (Manuel Muñoz) lead singer of the excellent group 20/20 (also an excellent human being), a successful group in a few years filled our minds with catchy melodies that even today echoes in our collective memory. Our friend Mannel also brings a tremendous Christmas present you only get exclusively on this page are treated unreleased live tracks 20/20 (including a presentation is made in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSpain). You know listen to them and lower them to your computer (as I have explained many times) and it is worth supesto to express your gratitude to comment Mannel by such a gift. All that remains is to wish you a very Merry Christmas to you and the musicians who contributed to this blog. See you soon if you come to realize the interview with Feed Back, if not, farewell, and thanks for sharing with me these two years, a big hug. Jhony
Interview with Manuel Muñoz:
"In most people the ability for music is something intrinsic that comes from birth, however, many other skills acquired through study. Which of these was your case? Already had these concerns for music since childhood?
Since very little I began to have fun with music, was 11 when I discovered that I liked this way of expressing a series of internal events that could not express with other disciplines. It was in early high school and studying with the Salesians in the Liceo San José de los Teques, when I discovered my true vocation, priests from the high school helped me tremendously. I decided at some point in my life (still young) to study music, either on my own and with some teachers, of those very good and some not so good, you go through life letting everyone the idea embodied in this in my case. I've never seen a child prodigy or anything, but people will see one as a marvel and it is almost inevitable ...
I managed to get the level of musicianship and artist, thanks to my constant effort to study and overcome these internal obstacles that as a human being and musician have touched me .... I'm not a virtuoso, nor be interested in me, the virtuoso is a being destined to suffer too ...
"In the musicians often devote himself entirely to music creates a conflict between art and a profession in which you always have to sacrifice any of the two, but in your case has been led by the hand as the music as a university. How do you maintain this balance and make being apart of a professional musician, to be nothing more and nothing less than an engineer of the Republic?
God's timing is perfect ... therefore there is always time for everything, no one forced me at any time to study music and no one forces me yet, and no one forced me to study engineering at the UNIVERSITY CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA. .. Since 1985 trying to be a professional in the music and also a music professional. For many years now, I have endeavored to be a good professional engineering, being a professional in the music. Music and engineering, are the same thing, from the artistic point of view, and that something must be engineer ... and from the quantitative point of view, in both disciplines must always tell. The Chinese call the music "ENGINEERING THE SOUL" ...
-At the family level, your parents were happy for you to drive between these two alternatives (Engineer-Musician)?
my father always objected to my profession musician .., never opposed to other options in which walked my professional life.
-Where and at what age studying music?
studied on my own, until I formalized my musical studies at the Conservatorio de Música Simón Bolívar de Caracas, from the year 1992, where I worked as a student to claim the title Bass Master Performer. I attended several workshops with many teachers in the academic and popular music, such as Vytas Cereica, Garry Carr, Jeff Berlin, among others.
-You started making music at a young age. What were your first groups before 20/20?
From 1977 until I was 80 bass player of a fusion rock band called "TEGNIATUS" ... from the year 1983 was co-founder of Banda "HYDRA" with my former colleagues TEGNIATUS: Angel Taramona and Gilberto Bermudez . In 1985 I founded a band called "POST-DATA" with what I revealed in the national media, up to meet FRANK QUINTERO. This Venezuelan Pop legend was the first album the band 20/20.
-How born 20/20?
Frank
When programmed with the pre-production POSTDATA, this band was suddenly dissolved by different criteria and then Frank suggests that we should direct the matter to a solo production called "Mannel. After much stress on the idea of \u200b\u200bforming a band with a pitch to be successful in a market full of soloists, FRANK QUINTERO accesses the idea to form another band and then I started to recruit the same characters ...
- always linked the name 20/20 as the highest aspiration in terms of a student's score .. What does this name?
Perfect Vision 20/20 is ..
-Who made up 20/20?
The first person I shared with him my anxiety was at that time Taramona ANGEL, former drummer and guitarist Ulises HYDRA MILLAN (currently based in USA)
HYDRA-In the group was vocalist Gilberto Bermúdez but 20/20 "is you who takes the reins of the song (apart from the bass). Was this some kind of emergency by not sing or who were already aware that you had a good voice?
At that time, I was a singer with little experience vocal and Angel and I decided to seek a substitute to replace Gilberto ... this task was not successful and we decided to leave it that size. That was 1,985.
-The time elapsed since the birth of 20/20 until the completion of the first LP? They play a lot of doors for it?
passed just four months from the time I made personal and professional contact with FRANK QUINTERO.
"As influenced the confidence of the group would benefit from knowing that Frank Quintero as a producer? Already knew?
CF
Nobody knew ... just me and my dreams had come in contact with such a monster of music, of course, this was very attractive to people who were sold the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing on 20/20.
"Unlike the recordings he made with the group HYDRA this time we have more technical support and high quality guest musicians to perform this work. How was the atmosphere that is breathed into the recording studio?
was an experience to remember for a lifetime ... learn CF, LEO QUINTERO (brother and guitarist CF), NENE QUINTERO, EZEQUIEL SERRANO, Otmar Ruiz, among others, to learn from these people was and is a wonderful thing.
-Why this predilection to play in threes? Does not require that much more of you as musicians? Always
I've been a fan of the band a trio ... not only in terms of instrumentation, but also at the level of training .... Rush, The Police, ELP, King Crimson, among others. It's a double edged sword ... usually, musicians who played in numerous groups tend to "sit back" of our fellow scorpion ... in a trio, this is impossible ... to play with the meaning of silence ... it gives importance to various aspects of harmonic, melodic and timbre that might not exist in many groups. My motto is: three is one ... more than three is chaos.
"Who composed the songs of 20/20?
Myself in most of the topics proposed for the first album ... year 1,988.
-It is said that at the time of the recording of uncertain wind, there was a special atmosphere in the study by Otmar Ruiz was inspired to be made in the implementation of the theme "An uncertain wind" which to date has been impossible to carry that theme as it as it appears on the recording. Is this true?
is quite true ... at least in piano, however, our friend Carlos Cabrices, who is the current guitarist of 20/20, has an unparalleled work, when to replace a piano solo only guitar, inspired by the work of Otmar.
"As was the acceptance of the first and only job of 20/20?
public acceptance was immediate, exceeding sales reports over the gold record for the season ...
-On what sites do you have? Go outside the country?
At first we present opening at major national shows of artists: Témpano, Aditus, etc, and international artists: THE LAST IN LINE, among others. We also made 5 presentations with this English band, as part of his staff ... I played Angel bass and drums for the time.
-The song "The more" comes from time with Hydra?
Yes, he was part of the preproduction of the second work of HYDRA.
-many considered to ud.s like Soda's Venezuela. What is your opinion of this?
is an honor to be considered or compared with prestigious bands ...
"Aside from the video they made with Erica Tucker in his" In Touch ", made other videos? Basically
not, however, make a number of local television appearances ...
-By spreading 20/20 if he had gained entry into the public taste of those years?
At that time, was preparing the second album by the band, but enters a new financial crisis in our country, so the record will bear us decapitalizing gradually to give us freedom.
-What do you think that influences the fact that after nearly 20 years people still remember and listen to tracks from 20/20 with nostalgia? Your songs will become classics of Rock National?
not for me to answer that, but we can not ignore that, fortunately, were, are and will hit songs that were made for this purpose.
"That you abandon the project after 20/20?
I offered to perform a solo work that eventually was called "LOVERS AND OCEANS" and this server was responsible to come forward. I began to realize my musical studies at the Conservatory of Music Simon Bolivar Caracas, among other activities.
However -made sporadic appearances with 20/20, right?
Yes, but nothing relevant.
"Tell us how was your experience of playing after all these years (2002) in Spain?
is very hard to venture outside our borders ... I have the luck to have dual nationality, but always end up being foreigners ... We played in many places, including Venezuelan public had filed or passing through Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwe was very, very well ... there are live recordings from that experience, ready to be released on CD.
"It's true you do a solo project? It was published the same?
not published for now, but I realized in the year 1992-93 ... LOVERS AND OCEANS was called and identified himself as Mannel.
"In other countries has been remastered and digitized much of the work of rock recorded at the time of acetate. Why do you think the record companies in our country have not done?
Why in the alleged record of our beloved country, it employs people who know the business of the disc, therefore, to develop the career of an artist ... simply are advertisers with airs of record managers ... do not know the difference between a tin of sardines and a CD.
-Currently that you do and that future plans for you musically?
Right now I work to accompany FRANK QUINTERO as bassist and singer of his band, HANNY Kauan, ROQUE VALERO, aditus (with whom I shared ranks from 1,994 to 1,997 and with whom I maintain a great relationship), etc. Venezuelan artists ... and engineering, I have the honor of belonging to the staff workers of the company Odebrecht. You see I have some complicated agenda ... and I thank God.
a -rumored return of Banda Hydra, right?
We seriously propose schemes for the meeting ... kids are already mature and false ego was almost defeated ... we work as brothers and is on the horizon a project with faith in God, will be talking about ... surely ... I hope well.
"Who is the vocalist for this new version of Hydra?
GILBERTO Initially BERMUDEZ, but he and ANGEL OF Taramona insist that we have two main voices ... anyway, as I'm concerned, I would be in that deal because among the leading voice on some issues , bass, Chapman stick, among other instruments, see what happens ...!
"When we have good news about Hydra?
'm sure for the 2008 ... hear it: for 2008.
"Certainly I had the opportunity to attend a concert by Frank Quintero and his friends and were pleasantly surprised to see that among the select group of musicians in this show.
If we both know well before the initial project to develop 20/20 and is an honor and a great opportunity that life gives me join the ranks of such and so great POP LEGEND IN VENEZUELA ...! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Manel away thanks for your time space to answer these questions and especially the friendliness and willingness with which you have.
Thank you all for allowing a system to approach a little heart ... friends forever and we will soon live ... supporting our music and singing together as many songs we ... Friends forever ....
About me (live)
The more (live)
only depend on you (live)
An uncertain wind (live)
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