The Story of the
Tequila Tornados
Once upon a time, somewhen in May 2007 the later
Doña Magarita, Don Alejo and Don
Herberto were
chatting in the aftermath of a
rather poor bluegrass session in the
Vienna Café Concerto (www.cafeconcerto.at). As one
would expect, in a singing pub, the issue was music and what kind of
style to play as the bluegrass session was kind a languishing …
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Rapidly Tex-Mex and Cajun/Zydeco were identified
as
favourite styles. Tex-Mex had been brought to the attention of a
broader
public in Austria in the mid 90ies by Prof. Dr. Kurt Ostbahn (www.williresetarits.at),
when he performed his famous Sunday morning radio show “Trost und
Rat” having as a signation the Flaco Jimenez (www.flacojimenezmusic.com)
tune “Las Golondrinas” and airing regularly Tex-Mex tunes. |
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An important problem of every new band – where
to get
together and rehearsal without incommodationg the rest of the world –
was easily solved, as Don Alejo offered his workplace at the Institute
of Musical Acoustics, IWK (iwk.mdw.ac.at) – muchas
gracias !!! Special THANX to Don
Gerado, for his profesional help in setting up our sound-system
and providing a lot of technical equipment!!!!
Besides the music it was important to find an
attractive
name for the band. There was some back and forth, names like “Guacamole
Orquesta” and “Los Cocodrilos del Norte”
were proposed and dismissed.
So why
Tequila
Tornados ? There are four good reasons:
- It is a
reference to one of the
greatest Tex-Mex bands ever, the Texas
Tornados formed by Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Fender, Doug Sahm and Augie
Meyers.
- Secondly
a reference to Tequila,
which at some time in the past was Don
Herberto’s favourite drink – cf his vita.
- Thirdly
the stuff gives you the
spirit and boost needed to play Tex-Mex tunes in style.
- It sounds appealing – at least to the Tornados…
