Saicomanía documentary addresses the myths and legends surrounding 'The Saicos' group whose meteoric career in Lima in 1965 has continued for nearly 50 years a question: Do we really the first punk group is Peruvian? Before the Detroit MC5 recorded their first single and James Newell became Iggy Pop, lead singer of The Stooges', four young men did shake the theater in Lima on Sunday morning to songs like Demolition, Graveyard, or Wild Alcatraz Fugitive.
But why is this group with a direct sound spontaneous and ahead of his time was forgotten soon after dissolved and lost on the history of world music? Hector Chavez, director of Saicomanía, presented on Saturday in the Peruvian capital, had his first contact with the group years ago when a vinyl shop in downtown Lima seller offered a simple house in a Peruvian band to inflated price of 100 soles (39 dollars or 28 euros).
Of course, it was 'The Saicos'. The novelty prompted Chavez to be interested in that group to find out later that those four Peruvians were a phenomenon among collectors. From this arises the idea of a documentary, a project "self-funded" to which he devoted two years and that has led him to interview characters ranging from Adam Renshaw, founder and director of the magazine "Punk" Iggy Pop himself The origin of the group dates back to 1964 when Fred Guevara, Edwin Flores, Rolando Carpio and Cesar Castrillon decided in the district of Lince Lima, where today there is a plaque to celebrate the decision, that the best way to have fun and meet girls was to create a rock band.
"We never try to project, do something new. We did what we felt, with no future intention," says Pancho Guevara, drummer of 'The Saicos'. Decided it was time to finish college and start working experience of the group was so brilliant and brief. He was finishing his first concert, off the stage and receive offers to play on TV and record their first single.
However, just over a year and six albums later, the band dissolved, just as they appeared offers to play in Argentina and Mexico. Group members decided it was time to finish college and start working. It took 30 years and a cassette tape was all it took to finally heard the group was far from Peru.
Guevara account at the end of the 90 someone took a tape of the group to the National Radio of Spain, where he programmed one of the songs. The success was so great that shortly after that country was edited a collection of all your disks. "I can not explain, I have no way to explain it, but I think it's amazing what has happened," Guevara says, laughing.
The musician Gonzalo Alcalde, one of the leading experts in the work of 'The Saicos', said the group's claim in Peru dating from the scene of the 80, when demolition went on to become the anthem and the group claimed as first punk (or "protopunk") of history. "In Peru there was much roll in the 80's claim that song because it was a revolutionary song," recalls Mayor, but the player is considered a mistake, because the group lacked any political intent.
In his view, the group "was something young, have fun and send the world to hell." But that makes them even more surprising, a group that listened to music more then normal, Elvis, 'The Beatles' and yet managed to do something so wild and peculiar. " Chavez agrees: "The year is crucial, very important, if we talk about 'The Saicos' is why, if the music had made it to the late 60's would not be talking now." For Mayor, qualifying the group forerunners of punk music is "silly" because despite his particular sound is impossible to arrive at influencing other groups for the simple reason that "nobody knew then out of Peru" .
However, today its "long play" is a collector's item, was the first Latin American group to record their own songs and just in Castilian and tickets for the presentation of the documentary in Lima were sold in 20 minutes. Maybe not started the punk, but Chavez and Mayor, 'The Saicos' are the most important group of Peruvian rock history. 
But why is this group with a direct sound spontaneous and ahead of his time was forgotten soon after dissolved and lost on the history of world music? Hector Chavez, director of Saicomanía, presented on Saturday in the Peruvian capital, had his first contact with the group years ago when a vinyl shop in downtown Lima seller offered a simple house in a Peruvian band to inflated price of 100 soles (39 dollars or 28 euros).
Of course, it was 'The Saicos'. The novelty prompted Chavez to be interested in that group to find out later that those four Peruvians were a phenomenon among collectors. From this arises the idea of a documentary, a project "self-funded" to which he devoted two years and that has led him to interview characters ranging from Adam Renshaw, founder and director of the magazine "Punk" Iggy Pop himself The origin of the group dates back to 1964 when Fred Guevara, Edwin Flores, Rolando Carpio and Cesar Castrillon decided in the district of Lince Lima, where today there is a plaque to celebrate the decision, that the best way to have fun and meet girls was to create a rock band.
"We never try to project, do something new. We did what we felt, with no future intention," says Pancho Guevara, drummer of 'The Saicos'. Decided it was time to finish college and start working experience of the group was so brilliant and brief. He was finishing his first concert, off the stage and receive offers to play on TV and record their first single.
However, just over a year and six albums later, the band dissolved, just as they appeared offers to play in Argentina and Mexico. Group members decided it was time to finish college and start working. It took 30 years and a cassette tape was all it took to finally heard the group was far from Peru.
Guevara account at the end of the 90 someone took a tape of the group to the National Radio of Spain, where he programmed one of the songs. The success was so great that shortly after that country was edited a collection of all your disks. "I can not explain, I have no way to explain it, but I think it's amazing what has happened," Guevara says, laughing.
The musician Gonzalo Alcalde, one of the leading experts in the work of 'The Saicos', said the group's claim in Peru dating from the scene of the 80, when demolition went on to become the anthem and the group claimed as first punk (or "protopunk") of history. "In Peru there was much roll in the 80's claim that song because it was a revolutionary song," recalls Mayor, but the player is considered a mistake, because the group lacked any political intent.
In his view, the group "was something young, have fun and send the world to hell." But that makes them even more surprising, a group that listened to music more then normal, Elvis, 'The Beatles' and yet managed to do something so wild and peculiar. " Chavez agrees: "The year is crucial, very important, if we talk about 'The Saicos' is why, if the music had made it to the late 60's would not be talking now." For Mayor, qualifying the group forerunners of punk music is "silly" because despite his particular sound is impossible to arrive at influencing other groups for the simple reason that "nobody knew then out of Peru" .
However, today its "long play" is a collector's item, was the first Latin American group to record their own songs and just in Castilian and tickets for the presentation of the documentary in Lima were sold in 20 minutes. Maybe not started the punk, but Chavez and Mayor, 'The Saicos' are the most important group of Peruvian rock history.
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