LARRY ZAVALA, THE COMMITMENT IS ALWAYS THE SAME
An Argentina decimated, destroyed and repressed. Fruit of ten years of bloody dictatorship, censorship, disappearances. A stage crowned with a frustrating feat of Malvinas, opened to an artistic movement of protest, of liberation. In the midst of that disconcerting social madness, a kid who just entered adolescence received a gift for his 12th birthday, from his maternal grandmother...“ a guitar.”
This boy is called Claudio Zavala, later known among his friends as Larry. This fact awakens in this characteristic icon of our metal culture the interest by the music. Discovering in its beginnings The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, etc.
“... I learned the first chords, and well. I said enough for me...“ At sixteen he formed his first band, influenced by the music that the older brothers of his friends listened to.“... at the age of sixteen we began to play with some acoustic instrument that later became electric...”
In those years, Larry played bass and sang in his band. In 1984, Javier Bagalá, a guitarist he had known at those times, invited him to participate in an audition for his band.“... Javier Bagalá, an impressive guitarist... it is through him that I arrived in Nepal... to this day, friendship continues...”
At that moment the band was looking for a more lyrical singer. But two years later they took a spin in the musical and return to the charge of Larry. This is how it entered and was established that was one of the most emblematic bands of Thrash-Metal of our country.
“... to all this, two years passed until they called me back. And in at that moment, let’ s say, they’ d took a spin. The thing came more from the side of Mercyfull Fate, Vennom. At that moment things were meant for me to arrive... it was what they were needing...““... everything that was lyrics, mainly was my part. Because the guys wanted it to be so. And I felt very identified. I could dump a lot of things I had...“
In the beginnings Nepal was confronted with the remnants of a country with fear. Guarded by the terror still latent in a land that returned to live an incipient democracy.“... thirty years ago it was quite complicated. They denied the places to make a concert. You had to lie. You had to say you played rock & roll. If you said that you made heavy metal they would lock the door in your face...“
The rock movement was growing in the country. From the authorities responsible for safeguarding the security of citizens saw the metalheads as a threat, shrapnel from a latent past. But, it is the principle of the metal not to follow rules, much less if they are unfavorable.
“... how many times with Nepal, we have even had to cancel concerts. We started and we had at the door an off-line bus and two patrolmen. And they took all the people. They were terrible things. All remnants that had been left of the damn process...““... at that time it was common currency. We knew we could take the risk. And we actually ran...““... because of the police stuff, if the owner of the place did not make an arrangement, in quotes, somehow with the sectional, you were dead...”
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