![]() “There were no possibilities to continue,” confirms Orrego, who moved to Isla Negra for a few months with Eduardo Gatti. The burning of their masters and the persecution of artists. could not survive the closing of spaces that followed the arrival of the military in La Moneda. After the recording of the second album, after reflecting on the festival experience, the band decided that they would not do any more lyrics, that they would abandon the acoustic instruments and that from then on they would be called Parafina. part of the group lived as a community in an old convent on the border of the communes of Ñuñoa and La Reina (La Manchufela, they called it). Upon returning from the catastrophic performance, the dressing room awaited them with an eloquent line: “Get out of here, shitty hippies.”. The pure acoustic sound of the group was lost among the furious screams of the monster of the Fifth. “As soon as the entertainer mentioned the name of the Blops, it was not necessary for the musicians to appear on stage for the public to boo them until they finished their presentation. They were part of the Dicap artists and were mercilessly booed by a audience that associated their name with the Unidad Popular. The band performed at the Viña del Mar Festival for three nights in 1971. When Blops (1970) appeared, they never imagined that this song would be precisely their great legacy to Chilean popular music. ![]() At the end of those sessions, and almost accidentally, they decided to include a composition by Eduardo Gatti that they barely knew: “Los momentoes”. he label gave them a few days of study, during which they recorded their first nine songs. Surprisingly, the Communist Party label, Dicap, was the only one that agreed to release an album by the Blops, despite the ideological mistrust aroused by their rather hippie orientation, their open sympathy towards marijuana, and their lack of greater commitment. they made the decision to start composing their own songs. its first repertoire with covers of bands like The Doors, The Who and the Rolling Stones. classic on the scale of “Los Momentos” and an impact that, although never massive, had a deep impact on a sector of the public and the Chilean music community. ![]() After its dissolution, in 1973, its three albums constituted a lost heritage until the personal effort of its members allowed its reissue, in 2001. was one of the few bands of the time that was able to transcend its Anglo-Saxon inspiration to give way to original creations with a powerful identity of their own. Jorge Leiva recounts Los Blops’ history and legacy: The song was from the “ebut from the experimental folk/rock band in the revolutionary days of the late 60’s in Chile” ( ) - so revolutionary that Los Blops were booed by right-wing audiences, considered “sh*tty hippies”, but at the same time viewed with distrust by the Communists because of “their rather hippie orientation, their open sympathy towards marijuana, and their lack of greater commitment”! () THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARDĥ41) Los Blops - “Los Momentos”/ (“The Moments”)*Ī stunning folk rock song from Chile that “would become a classic of Chilean popular music” ( ) and for Los Blops - the band’s name “inspired by the sound of a drop of water hitting the ground their great legacy to Chilean popular music.” () ![]()
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