Fito Cabrales: "Rock and roll today is old"

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Bilbao, 1966. Musician.

After seven years without releasing a new album, Fito & Fitipaldis return to the fray with

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And they announce from March 2022 a great tour of the old ones, if the pandemic allows it.

It has taken seven years for 'Cada vez cadaver' to see the light since their previous album. Why so long? There are two main reasons why it takes me so long to make records. On the one hand I think that doing nothing is part of the composition, continuing to enjoy music, having a good time like when I was 15 years old. And the second reason is that I don't know how to compose and lead a normal life, to continue being the father of my children and all those things. And in the end it is easier to put life at home first because I know that when I compose I will not stop. I don't know how to compose from six to eight, when I compose it's hard. Has that always happened to you? As a young man I could spend all day thinking about my music, my lyrics ... Even when I had my first child - I think about it now With the perspective that gives you the passage of time - it happened a lot. My oldest son will now be 23 years old and,Like all parents, I love him more than anything in the world. But, if I'm honest, I admit that I was not fully with him. I was much more like Platero y Tú or Fitapaldis than being

, than to be a father. At that time, I never considered myself as I consider now not to go to work to be with the family. With 20 years it is logical that someone does not give up their dream for a child, at that age you do not have the ability to think, to value ... You go to yours and yours, and you think you can also do everything else. And it's a lie, you do it fatal. But it has taken me all these years to realize it. I suppose that the late fatherhood that he has had has made him see things differently ... Of course. I have a girl who has been for seven years now and having her has blown my mind. Being a father at a different age has changed me a lot. Also, when one gets older, they usually don't feel like the excesses and partying of before ... Yes. Luckily I am not the only one who is getting old, that my musicians and my entire environment also accompany me in this process.There are some who still go out at night, but deep down we are all on the same wavelength. It's a natural process. The delay in releasing a new album, has it also had something to do with a creative crisis? It seems that way, right? Well, it's something that always happens to me. I make an album and for a long time it always seems to me that it will be the last. I know it doesn't make sense, but it is like that, it seems to me that I have been very lucky to be able to put together 10 songs. Right now, I swear, the feeling I have is that I'm not going to record another album in my life. It is true that I have a lot of music in my head ... If I had to make an instrumental album I would go to work tomorrow and I would not have nerves. But if I had to present three letters, three texts tomorrow ... Ugh, my heart skips just thinking about it.How do you overcome those crises? An important part is not giving up, knowing that you can do it. And another is to tell it, to ally yourself with your fucking enemy. Many times they ask me why I write so much that I have nothing to say: because if I cannot with my enemy, I join him, let it be my lack of talent that gives me a line. Having a phrase is also important for me. When I have a phrase that expresses something of what I want to say, that phrase guides me. Why are the lyrics so difficult for him? I play every day, I play every day. I have guitars at home, a local, and every day I start to play, to play. I play every day, but I don't write every day, and that's the problem. OnMany times they ask me why I write so much that I have nothing to say: because if I cannot with my enemy, I join him, let it be my lack of talent that gives me a line. Having a phrase is also important for me. When I have a phrase that expresses something of what I want to say, that phrase guides me. Why are the lyrics so difficult for him? I play every day, I play every day. I have guitars at home, a local, and every day I start to play, to play. I play every day, but I don't write every day, and that's the problem. OnMany times they ask me why I write so much that I have nothing to say: because if I cannot with my enemy, I join him, let it be my lack of talent that gives me a line. Having a phrase is also important for me. When I have a phrase that expresses something of what I want to say, that phrase guides me. Why are the lyrics so difficult for him? I play every day, I play every day. I have guitars at home, a local, and every day I start to play, to play. I play every day, but I don't write every day, and that's the problem. OnWhy are lyrics so difficult for him? I play every day, I play every day. I have guitars at home, a local, and every day I start to play, to play. I play every day, but I don't write every day, and that's the problem. OnWhy are lyrics so difficult for him? I play every day, I play every day. I have guitars at home, a local, and every day I start to play, to play. I play every day, but I don't write every day, and that's the problem. On

I say it: I am afraid to write out of fear of not knowing how to say it. Right now, thinking about 10 new song texts seems impossible to me. I will wait again for luck. They announce a great "pre-pandemic" tour for March 2022, a tour like the ones before: with people standing up and without masks ... It is that either we go out as before or we do not go out, no we want to go out to play with limitations. It may seem like a whim to want to play with people standing up and without masks, but we forget that it was like that before. We want this tour to be a reunion party, a reason for celebration. And if, for whatever it was on March 12, you can't do concerts like the ones before, what will happen to the tour? But I am optimistic, I look at other countries, I look at England and the United States and I see that big bowling is already done without masks.Here we are always late, here it costs more because there is politics all the time and if one says one thing, the other says the opposite. But if the conditions are good and the figures are good we will have to advance as other countries are advancing.You are a normal guy, you are not going to be a rock'n'roll star ... I have never considered myself a rock star because Rock stars do not exist in Spain, it would be a joke to be a rock star. For me rock and roll is the most important thing in the world, but from that to feeling like a star in Spain ... Has rock and roll become music for older people? Rock and roll today is old, yes, but a band will come and update it. Rock'n'roll is here to stay: sometimes it's lower, sometimes it's in the middle and sometimes higher.What is needed is young people who continue to rock'n'roll with a current vision. It will not be Chuck Berry, but bands will come and rediscover rock and roll.In his new album there are many references to the passage of time ... Because now, with my age, you realize that you eat time, you you swallow it. You realize that what they say that time is relative is true, it does not happen the same for my children as it does for me. Does the fact that rockers have their birthday and stop leading transgressive lives does it influence that young people see them almost as dinosaurs? Totally, that's why other styles come out that want to provoke. My son, for example, does hardcore and trap with two different bands. What catches the attention of a kid about making a band and making songs is annoying, touching their noses.The first rule of thumb is to touch the eggs, then the musical thing comes. And rock and roll now no longer touches eggs, not even punk. Now it is the trap that touches the eggs. I get along well because for me music is no longer touching noses, perhaps it never has been. With Platero we especially liked to mislead because we did not fit in anywhere. 'Every time corpse' is called his new album. Why that title? I don't remember why it was a long time ago, but I was reading a book and when I turned a page they got togetherWith Platero we especially liked to mislead because we did not fit in anywhere. 'Every time corpse' is called his new album. Why that title? I don't remember why it was a long time ago, but I was reading a book and when I turned a page they got togetherWith Platero we especially liked to mislead because we did not fit in anywhere. 'Every time corpse' is called his new album. Why that title? I don't remember why it was a long time ago, but I was reading a book and when I turned a page they got together

and

. It was surely a phrase that ended in

and another that began with a

. But I read it all often:

. And I thought it sounded really cool. At that time I was thinking of setting up a band to play my style in Bilbao. Something fun, a rockabilly band. And I thought to call her that,

phonetically it seemed brutal to me, I really liked it.

I never made that band, but I like that phrase so much that I started using it in emails.

And now, although a bit with a shoehorn, I wanted to put it on the record. What is the secret to creating a hit song? Nobody knows.

If anyone knew, they would have already made a computer program to create hits.

I think there is something mystical in hit songs that connects with people.

I think it is like the sea or the mountain, which has something that attracts almost everyone, but we don't know what it is.

And thank goodness you can't tell.

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