Many people seemed to have nowhere to sleep. Some went dancing and others simply spent the night at the Lara cinema on Avenida de Mayo 1221. The ritual consisted of watching The song is the same, of . That movie and that place They meant something like the fullness of sound. Leaving music-loving purism aside, and despite the fact that the copy seemed to be asking for compassion, one could feel that one was better there than at a León Gieco recital.
The quality of the film did not matter, its record deserves a five-star splurge. Saturday after Saturday, from 1978 to December 1989, a spectacle worthy of the word “ritual” took place. The song is the same It became an implausible fact. How many performances will there have been? More than 500, more than a thousand? There is no doubt that this 137-minute rock documentary was the real deal.
Imagination through the roof with Zeppelin. Jimmy Page He slammed you against the seat and the voice and the demeanor of Roberto Planta (Robert Plantin the credits) made our pure pubescent virility complex. The singer, in moments of total and absolute absence of video clips, seemed like a rude sailor from Joseph Conrad.
The film epic Lara still continues its path today and it multiplies over the years. They say that even Plant himself, when he visited us in the ’90s, wanted to visit the famous enclave where his film spent a long decade.
Furthermore, in those early 80’s it was believed that rock was something serious and then one could return again and again to see a movie that, to make matters worse, is called The song is the same. “Yes, I went again, so what?” You told your old man so he would see you as crazy and let you live in peace.
Perhaps it was a way to thoroughly work on the idea of boredom. Life is short, they told you, but already at 14, 15 years old you were furious at the repetitive structure of daily life.
The Zeppelin movie was a must-see for the heady nights of the ’80s at the Lara.
Eleven years on the bill. Dictatorship, Alfonsín and Menem. Three governments! That’s how long it lasted The song is the same at the Lara cinema. Successes, in general, are always massive, collective things, cocacoleras. “Cult” phenomena, on the other hand, seem to respond to other needs: Was the song the same for the same people as always? At least that was the feeling. In that room, with a seat in between, couples have formed themselves. Peace symbols have also been exchanged.
The Lara ritual
You could go to the Select Lavalle late night to see The Wallof pink floyd. That said, to Lara for Zeppelin. Let’s spend the night together, of the , took place late at night at the Esmeralda cinema, and A ghost in paradise, Another long-lived classic, it lasted five years or so at the Cine Studio, in Santa Fe and Pueyrredón.
At that time movies were prohibited for 14 or 18. The Lara was a guarantee touch and turned a blind eye. Identical reaction in any of the other rooms of the cinerock (or in El Continental de Flores where they gave the Sarli Thing). Then, well, you came out and they might take you away for a background check.
Eleven uninterrupted years on the billboard of a cinema. That Titanic achieved such a mark? The song is the same (The song remains the same1976) had been directed by two guys, Peter Clifton and Joe Massot (??). It was Led Zeppelin’s first live album.
The double disc served as the soundtrack to the most obstinate movie in the history of our domestic cinematography. The film’s live scenes were records taken over three nights at Madison Square Garden in New York. (July 27, 28 and 29), during the band’s 1973 tour.
New smells in Lara: patchouli, joint. Alcohol was drunk in the seats. It was sung. was yelled at the screen. Things were flying around.
“Is there an explanation for this phenomenon? It’s hard to find. There was no glamour, no new hairstyles or that icy elegance that infected boys and girls grouped in different musical styles., but uniformed under certain cultural guidelines of the time. And yet, those kids who had taken the Lara cinema by storm to mechanically reproduce their rock fervor, were also from the ’80s.'” This paragraph is part of a beautiful text written by colleague Fernando D’Addario.
Volume down and rear speakers. Two precise instructions that the projectionist had received when the Zeppelin documentary was shown. D’Addario, journalist Page 12reminded us that The song is the same premiered in 1978 (May 24, near the start of the World Cup), although the great event of stubborn permanence was put together around the democratic spring.
What happened with this film did not happen anywhere on the planet. Buenos Aires didn’t sleep and that’s why we had those rocking late nights on the big screenand.
The exit retro By definition it was having gone to see one of those movies more than once. The phrase of, What can you do except watch movies?, comes from those late nights. They say that Charly was often seen at the Cine Studio as an audience member. A ghost in paradisewith music by Paul Williams.
The charming Luis Sagasti -writer, professor and art critic-, author of A musical offering, He dedicated a book to one of the most important rock bands in history: Why we listen to Led Zeppelin (Gourmet Musical Editions). “At 13 years old I had gone with my cousin Ignacio to see The song is the same at night As far as I remember, it was the first rock movie that had come to Bahía Blanca.”
More testimonials. “I saw it about forty times, it was sacred. “It was the only thing there was on Saturdays if you wanted to see music”said Tete, bassist of La Renga. “We would get together in the neighborhood, in Mataderos, with Chizzo, with my brother, and other friends, and we would go to Lara.”
He cinerockan extinct species of the even more extinct “rock culture”, knew how to convert the Lara functions in a sticky custom. For the sickest acolytes, Led Zeppelin played every weekend for 11 years in a row in a cinema built in 1925.
The song is the same He beat them all: The Wallto Woodstock (first at the Ritz de Belgrano and then at the Normandie), tommy (Cinema Art). A legend that began to take shape from the resistance in the difficult years and then it would be read as the first link of the now called OCD.
Account Fernando Garcia, cultural journalist, that the Lara cinema became, over time, the afflicted branch of a bank where only the majolica tiles survived. “All of us who make a pilgrimage to those late nights (five times in my case) have them engraved in our memory. Thousands of hours of Led Zeppelin can be seen on YouTube, but the context in which this film was projected has the same essence as those paintings whose faces are intended to be snatched from illusion, from deception, from painting, by the artisans of Artificial Intelligence. And the face of Jesus, if you believe it, they say, is only seen once you climb the ladder to heaven.” .
