The ever young, punk, surf, garage legends "The Fleshtones" have already wowed Australia this year at the Dig It Up! Festivus and now they are getting ready to wow the world with the release of a new four track E.P "Los Fleshtones Quatro x Quatro. "
The four song EP was recorded in Spain in February of 2010 and includes four songs recorded in Spanish. The EP will be released on vinyl and digital only. To compound the excitement factor even further the E.P was co-produced by longtime friend of the band and former member of the Spanish rock sensation Dr. Explosion, Jorge Muñoz-Cobo Gonzalez. The recording took place in Gonzalez' studio with vintage gear and little time to spare on The Fleshtones Spanish tour.
Fleshtone Peter Zaremba explains "The story of this record goes way back to our original bass player, Marek Pakulski, finding a bunch of albums including 'Los Johnny Jets A Go Go' in the trash in front of Joey Ramone's Lower Eastside tenement one night in 1977. Johnny Jets were a typical Mexican '60s rock and roll group -covering top-ten hits of the time like 'Wooly Bully' in Spanish with varying degrees of competence -- just the thing to appeal to The Fleshtones. Rather than the Spanish language versions of overly-familiar tunes like 'Hang On Sloopy', what really caught our ears were two more-or-less original tracks 'No Tengo Dinero' and 'Todos Queremos A Lupe' (which seemed to at least be inspired by Johnny Thunder's 1962 hit 'Loop De Loop'). We decided we would record these two songs ourselves as soon as possible. If nothing else, The Fleshtones are good for their word!"
Track Listing:
Llevo Un Tigre En Mi Guitar
No Tengo Dinero Todos Queremos A Lupe
Acero e Iman
Tour Dates:
June 21 - Bowery Electric, New York, NY
June 22 - Dogfish Head Brewery, Rehoboth Beach, DE June 23- North Star Bar, Philadelphia, PA
Here they are at Dig It Up Live in Melbourne April 25th. Awesome!
