Jorge Martínez (illegal) turns 70: the Asturian against the world

Jorge Martínez García He was born in Asturias on May 1, 1955, that a unique guy had to be born on an indicated date. Specifically, on International Labor Day, but as we celebrate that on December 24 the Son of God was not born, but the Son of Rock, I say Lemmybecause every May we go to the street vindicating rights, but also irreverence from the birth of “ours” Illegal Jorge.

With new album under your arm, ‘Young and arrogant’and being precisely as young and arrogant as once, this assertion makes even more sense today. High, spiky, elegant in its own way, with a mixture between bad guaje and close friend, never leaves indifferent, like his music. Adalid of hard rock, punk, pop rock or surfing (yes, I’m not exaggerating)? They are all true!

Collector of guitars, albums and soldiers of lead, that hobbies of particular types obviously have to be idem. Who discovers the Illegal already Jorgehe doesn’t release them anymore. That is, he assimilates them as his own, like that ideology that catches you as a teenager and you will die hugging her and defending her even more watershed than once. From that already distant, but at the same time close, first homonymous album in 82, to the experiments of different stages of the group’s history, reaching the latter for now ‘Young and arrogant’ From literally a few days ago, we can only admire the spark, the edge and the clairvoyance of Jorge Martínez.

From Avilés, in the neighborhood, but at the same time in good family, which is irreverent even in the way of facing rock n ‘Roll, it has been building the history of our elegant, subversive, transgressive and irreverent rock. A lot of sex, drugs and rock Even Macarra, but nothing horses, but rather a scourge against the pusilánimes, we can only praise the 70 years well used of the group always visible from the group.

When the band was then (more or less) 30 years, he told us that “The heart is a strange animal”. Now I apostille having arrived here with few scars while before he told us he was “Exhausted to wait for the end”. Of course, let’s clarify that the end will be put by the scythe of time, but for now it is still alive, placeing and bothering. In addition to, of course, offering more songs, more pills of philosophy, counterculture and wisdom.

In fact, they start The presentation tour of the new albumwith several of the dates already exhaustedsuch as in Madrid on my birthday, May 9so we will try the 14 in the Riviera. Whatever in the city you see them, it will be a new demonstration on the tables that they have no rival and that their songs, even if they seem, are not precisely simple or basic or banal.

Illegalby the hand of our protagonist, they have been writing the countercraft of society from the first eighty until now. In fact, I recommend all of you seeing the two documentaries of the group, both the complete and irreverent ‘My life among ants’ e ‘Illegal 82’addressing the beginnings of the group and everything relative to the group’s first album, on its 40th anniversary, recently. I even advise reading the two biographies of the artist/band, but that is already investigating, that we are not going to give everything done.

Returning to Jorgethat he himself defines himself as a great bocazas, by the way, it is curious how he has always managed to reach rockers with punk and irreverent attitude, but also to the poperos with an elegance and false banality and clairvoyance of message. Even to the heavies with poorly fed and subversion through, and of course to the punkies, with social vomiting and spitting the one in front of us that we know how to scratch in their lyrics. And going in turn Illegaly Jorge By extension, always on his way, his own, and that teaches the one who wants to learn how things should be done and why. It is still the guy who scares children, or should.

He lives and rehearses in a castle, and no one promises that it is not a lord or a vampire, but surely it will remain as a timeless figure that will transfer times, borders and become myth. A character from another era, which continues year after year demonstrating that in the old school it is who we can and we must trust these strange times. New times, wild times, which said themselves at the time, while the rock n ‘roll threatened by advenedizos, fatalistic and meapilas on duty, models included. That is why types are as necessary as Jorge Martínez.

When you feel like it looks at 50, at 60 and even before to commit and undertake their sound misdeeds. Of course, always giving us moments of clairvoyance, always against stultication, against leaving anyone indifferent and please bother and put their finger on the sore, in the ass or eye (the order of the factors does not alter the product). Sabio Disco A Disco, and Chronicler of the Paso in our country of Bisoñez and eighties idealism to the current involution. That is why types like Jorge Martínez They are so necessary, and that we never lack.

Millimetric lyric, maximum shame, minimal nonsense, mental agility and everything from an apparent musical simplicity that has never been such. And that is why he does not always connect with the respectable and stays in a mere anachronistic chronicler or write to the service of the plain people. Fool who reads it, or the one who does not know how to interpret it, I allow myself to add, Mamoncetes!

1.90 of macarrería and attitude, of authenticity and of not having a silly hair, neither in the tongue nor at the tip of his boots of sucks me the tip and kiss me the ass. They are seven leagues boots, in fact, for always going one step or two ahead. Such an illegal guy, if there was no longer, would be impossible to invent it, because there is no possible censorship that you stop its irreverent and subversive verbiage. Amediated over the years, but little, although in reality it is one of the characters that make sense of the phrase that the devil knows most as an old man than to have a tail and horns.

Nostalgia of the old days in which the types that marked the road were really hard characters, irreverent for conviction and true grains in the ass of any biempensing mind. If someone says yes, Jorge He will say no. And if Jorge No, we say yes. That’s how it was, it has always been and it will be.

We are missing Lemmyif you allow me the wink with the beginning, and the Boni. And at some point we will lack the guys as Loquillo, César Strawberry, Miguel Costas, Drugs, Evaristo o Jorge Martínez… and then we will really miss them and it will make much less sense to feel illegal. Congratulations and thanks.