PAX Pax

In 1968, Los Shain's Magnificent Saga Of Beat, Garage And Psychedelia Came To An End With The Dissolution Of The Band. Pico Ego-Aguirre, The Band Leader And Lead Guitarist,Embarked On A Journey Through The Hard Rock Music That Made Its Way To South America Courtesy Of Vanilla Fudge, Led Zeppelin And Deep Purple, Releasing A Record With Several Tracks In This Style With His Brand-New Line-Up Los Nuevos Shain's.The New Decade Saw Young Peruvians Exchanging Local Releases Of Cream, Deep Purple, Golden Earring And Iron Butterfly. They Weren't Alone In Being Mesmerised By The Seventeen-Minute-Long `In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' As Whenever He Could, Alfonso Tealdo, A Writer And Journalist In His Fifties, Broadcast The Video On Television On Weekend Programming. As Soon As The Song Was Announced By Panamericana Tv, Groups Of Young People Rushed To Gather Around Black And White Tv Sets Before The Guitarist Erik Brann Had Even Begun To Play The First Chord.In Those Days, Peru Was Governed By A Two-Sided Military Dictatorship. On One Side, It Implemented Progressive Measures To Defend Popular Sectors That Had Been Ignored For Decades By The State. But, On The Other, It Deported Detractors Of The Regime, Censored The Media And, In The Name Of Combating Alienation, Expressed Strong Views Against The Hippy Movement, Hitchhiking And Psychedelic Parties. It Was Also Happy Tocancel Gigs At The Drop Of A Hat.Amidst The Comings And Goings Of The So-Called Peruvian Revolution, Rock Bands Latched On Tight To Sounds That Were As Harsh As The Era They Were Living Through. The Elegant Beat Of Los Jaguar's, Same People, Los Sideral's, Los Benton's And Loszany's Soon Made Way For The Energetic Rhythms Of Cooking Morning, Elemental Music Group, Catarsis Or Los Comandos, Who Didn't Hesitate To Cover Led Zeppelin, Vanilla Fudge Or Black Sabbath At The Psychedelic Parties Where They Played.Pico Ego-Aguirre Travelled In A Similar Direction. An Ardent Fan Of The Beatles In The 60s, In 1971 He Decided To Look For Musician...