I'm Carlos Arévalo.
I'm Eduardo Arenas.
This is Yemayá Sol. Say hi mama. My name is Bardo Martinez.
Hi I'm Gabriel Villa.
And we're at Amoeba Records in Hollywood California, and this is What's in My Bag.
Chicano Batman.
First one Os Novos Baianos, 'Acabou Chorare.'
This is just 1973 bomb.
If you knew anything about Brazilian music, this is right in the center of music from Bahia.
And they do it all. They'll do chorinho, they'll do baião, sambas.
I mean they got it all under their belt
and they live in a commune in Bahia.
I picked up this reissue of Johnny Guitar Watson. 'Three Hours Past Midnight.'
Frank Zappa credits this track as being the inspiration for his guitar soloing style.
Johnny Guitar Watson used to play with his fingers and he used to pop the strings off the...
slap them off the fretboard and give it a real percussive, nice sound.
I like his 70s stuff.
I don't like his 70s stuff.
He likes his 50s blues, I like his 70s "Superman Lover." Y'know, funk.
That's where Snoop Dogg got all the style from. Johnny Guitar Watson in the 70s.
I got Metallica '...And Justice For All.'
I'm a big metal fan. This is what my sister got me when I was pretty young
and probably this is the reason why I do music and play drums.
When you listen to this album, you only listen to the drums.
The bass, you cannot listen to the bass. Guitar, heavy guitar
and it's so energetic that you're like, oh my god.
That's what got me into music, so thank you Metallica for this great album.
And thanks to your sister for giving you that record.
Thank you, yes. Thank you my dear Theresa. Love you.
Big inspiration of mine is Caetano Veloso and Tropicália movement.
So here you have Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes
These cats took music to another level
which was like, ok, well we're not only gonna just make music but we're gonna make a statement.
A project that represents Brazil in so many different ways and lights.
Kassav' #5. There's like some soca music. French soca music, there's a lot of that in Panama.
My wife is from Panama so we spend a lot of time there, and it's the liveliest music
it's just so positive and rhythmic and syncopated.
This is, I think, 1983 so there's gonna be some cheesiness in here
but I'm hoping it's a good one. If not, I'm still gonna like it.
More guitar. I'm a guitar player, sorry guys.
'You Can't Use My Name.' So this is Jimi Hendrix as a sideman for Curtis Knight and the Squires.
He was the lead guitar player in this band. He was commenting about how
you can kind of hear where Jimi may have gotten some of his inspiration on his vocal stylings
because Curtis Knight sounds really similar to Jimi Hendrix's singing style.
One of the songs that stood out to me on this one is called 'How Would You Feel?'
and it's basically talking about how unfair they felt being separate-but-equal.
l like soundtracks and I like this movie.
Iced that guy. Cone a phrase.
AC/DC, Megadeth... I grew up with this
and all my friends were listening to rock. I remember some of my friends
trying to imitate Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album, one of my neighbors with the drumset.
He was banging on those drums so hard, frustrated
took the drums and he'd throw it out the window
and that's how I got my first drum set, y'know. His mom just sell it to me for a dime and I was like 'yes.'
I haven't heard this yet, but I just saw it. 'Boogie Breakdown: South African Synth Disco'
from 1980 to 1984.
What have we got here, Juno 60, we've got a Jupiter 8.
I've been using old organs. I have a YC-30 Yamaha. There's nothing that can replace an old synth.
They're just not made the same. Synths from the 70s and 80s
have a particular sound, tones that are irreplaceable. So that's why I picked this record.
This has been a record that I've been a fan of for half my life.
I don't really know how to quite pronounce it. I always called it 'Ege Bamyasi.'
There's a song in particular on here that's amazing, it's called 'Vitamin C.'
The drumming on it is just incredible and it stood out to me the first time I heard it.
I'm also a big fan of Michael Karoli's guitar playing.
He had a clean Strat and a very textured type of style
which was really different from what was going on with a lot of prog and epic, early-70s rock bands.
Y'know, you hear a lot of guitar soloing, a lot of in-your-face Marshall 100-watt stacks going.
His was more subdued, but still prominent and really beautiful.
And of course, I had to keep it real with my roots. A little bit of Opeth.
They just do it how they do it and there's no apologies about it. 13-minute songs.
You go on the whole journey. It's like watching a movie.
Lately they've been getting into analog recording and just getting tones dialed in
and they're sounding more like a jazz/funk/rock band nowadays.
They're like the Pink Floyd of death metal, y'know, and they just keep evolving and evolving
and it gets more beautiful and more beautiful
and I have a huge place in my heart for bands like Opeth that just go for it.
I was listening to this on the way here, but I'm glad I found this on vinyl.
This kind of collaboration reminds me of Buena Vista Social Club
when you have the old dudes, legends, playing with young people
and doing new music and just letting it flow y'know.
Will Quantic and Mario Galeano, they're the producers on here
they're doing something great, so thank you guys and keep doing it, keep working it.
So we got Chico Buarque. This song 'Construção,' it means 'construction.'
It's such an amazing song. It takes you to a construction site.
It says there's a man he's drunk.
He had a long day. He's falling off, look at him fall.
The music mirrors the lyrics exactly
but the music is so epic. I mean we're talking about a huge orchestra
with all the drums and the samba happening under it.
It's a really amazing, amazing track.
Solange. I think he wanted to get it too. I think everybody needs to get this.
It's a full story. The songs are intertwined by interviews that she did with her family
and they're talking about real issues and real things and you can't get more sincere than that.
And the music in there's just... it's just so... it's just candy.
My girl got me into this record, and just from the cover, it's just so bold. It's just so pure.
'Day of Judgment' from the Ngozi Family.
It's pretty essentially punk rock music, I would say.
It's loud, it's fast. They have amazing fuzz guitar solos
which I can never get enough of.
The playing is just great. Really raw and just really sincere at the same time.
We got Tim Maya. He's kind of like the Godfather of Brazilian soul music
when Brazilians started taking funk and soul and putting it out themselves.
Brazilians have so much cultural, musical heritage.
It's like going straight to the center of Earth. You start digging, you won't stop.
If you're into Brazilian music, you'll never stop digging
it just adds so much dimension to soul music
soul music as we know it, y'know, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, etc. Amazing cat.
I gotta show you this album.
Art Blakey. This guy is the best drummer in history.
Please don't think whatever they told you, hey, don't listen to jazz, jazz sucks.
No, jazz is the shit.
Buy yourself a record, listen to Miles Davis, listen to Coltrane...
Get inspired because this is like inspiration flowing.
So excited about that. I've heard some of the songs and they're so incredible
and this is Tribe Called Quest. Y'know, Phife is gone
and it's just weird and beautiful to know that someone's spirit is being left in this album
and it's gonna be another classic that's gonna last a long, long time.
There's a lot of journalists and critics saying that there's a psyche rock revival y'know
and I think a lot of it's really owed to Dungen, whether people know it or not.
People like Kevin Parker from Tame Impala were paying attention
Ruban from Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It wasn't lost on any of those amazing bands
who ended up doing their own take on, I think, this kind of sound that these guys really were responsible for
bringing it with a modern twist. I love Dungen.
Los Grillos del Nortes. I haven't listened to this.
I love how they look. This is how we should look for the next tour.
Yeah right, that's it right there. Bam.
This is legit and the price was great.
I basically... I discover this gruperos kind of band, y'know
Mexican soul and... through you guys actually
through people, by living here in L.A., so this is very, like
Los Angeles here, it looks like
Awesome. Thanks guys.
Thank you.