Rodrigo Y Gabriela - "Diablo Rojo"

[tortuga]

I had no idea these two were strictly a instrumental band. Their style is over-exuberant acoustic guitar playing. They've been playing on a lot of late night shows and of course, Coachella so a lot of buzz for these two. Be impressed.

youtube.com/watch?v=9KBgg-hrtyo

[kinglouiexviii]

Yeah, they have been getting a lot of "underground buzz", but I don't really get it. Where are they from by the way... ???

[tortuga]

From Mexico but they live in Dublin, Ireland. Supposedly, that place is very welcoming to traveling musicians.

They started as trash metal band under a different name but that didn't work out very well so are what they are now.

[tortuga]

MTV is featuring them in a lot of their commercials now.

[kinglouiexviii]

They were supposed to play in Dallas at the beginning of September, but I just saw on TourFilter that the show was canceled. I wonder if it was due to poor ticket sales. They were playing a 500-800 capacity level venue.

[kinglouiexviii]

I recently saw this video on MTV TRES. I thought it was really cool and different. The song is of course, excellent. But I don't really see myself downloading or buying their music when it's all instrumental. Wouldn't that get kind of boring?

They do got some mad guitar-playing skillz. LOL!

[tortuga]

kinglouiexviii said:

But I don't really see myself downloading or buying their music when it's all instrumental. Wouldn't that get kind of boring?

Its good for background music. You know, like, while doing your homework?

[kinglouiexviii]

Is all of their stuff fast-paced like this?

[tortuga]

From the few songs I have heard, yes, very fast paced. It makes sense though since they used to be a metal band.