Town of Hurlingham will remember this Monday (30th January) to Sumo and Las Pelotas musician Alejandro Javier petanque Socoloriginally from that municipality, with the installation of a statue at the San Martín train station.
The tribute deed will be this afternoon at 18:30 at the corner of Av. Jauretche and Remedios de Escaladaat the entrance of San Martín Railroad Hurlingham Stationin a meeting that will bring together family and friends of the musician.
The work, which measures two meters and weighs a ton and a half, was made by the artist Adrián bugs Delorto and donated to the Municipality by Marcelo Jorge Fiori Quercetti.
The decision of Mayor Juan Zabaleta to honor Sokol was shared by the authorities of Ferrocarriles Argentinos through the manager of the San Martín line, Luciano Hass.
In this sense, the head of the community explained to Télam: “Remembering Sokol with the installation of this statue at the station ‘on Hurlingham’ allows us to continue enhancing our cultural heritage, thus highlighting an emblematic figure of Argentine rock “.
Meanwhile, Rody Rodríguez, secretary of Culture of the municipality, told this agency: “Hurlingham has a very strong connection with music in general and rock in particular.precisely for artists like Alejandro Sokol, whom we honor today, on his birthday, because Bocha is celebrated”.
Sokol, an essential figure of Argentine rock, was born on January 30, 1960 in Hurlingham and died on January 12, 2009.
The story is
El Bocha was a founding member of Sumo and this made him a national rock legend. During Luca Prodan’s stay in Córdoba, Timmy McKern, a friend of the singer and who would later become the representative of the emblematic group, introduced him to guitarist Ricardo Curtet for the first time.
After talking to him, Luca traveled to London to buy tools and look for his friend Stephanie Nuttal to ask her to be the drummer for the band that was forming.
When the leader of the group returned to the country, he settled with the McKern family in Hurlingham, where he met two musicians who joined immediately: Germán Daffunchio, Timmy’s brother-in-law; and our prize winner: Alejandro Sokol, friend of Germán.
Once they were able to talk and agree on the musical, they all traveled to Mina Clavero to meet with Curtet, where they would begin fleshing out the project. A couple of months later, Stephanie arrived in Argentina to complete the band.
Sumo (cold tomato)
So, The first lineup of Sumo consisted of Luca on vocals, Daffunchio and Curtet on guitars, Sokol on bass and Nuttal on drums.
The petanque He started out on bass but later switched to drums after Stephanie left the group. In those months Diego Arnedo and Roberto Pettinato enter.
With that quintet (Prodan, Daffunchio, Arnedo, Sokol and Pettinato) wanted Bodices at dawnthe first and only unofficial album (originally demo) by Sumo, recorded in October 1983 at the Estudios del Jardín.
Among the themes of that work, which would later be recorded in other albums, there were It’s better not to talk about certain things), One night in New York City (The blonde idiot), divided by happiness Y heroin.
Source: Telam
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