Tuesday Tunes with the Pig Roaster

I've decided to change up days for my one-week-old regular feature. Partly because of the risk that my Friday selections would be overshadowed by the all-powerful Van Damme, but mostly because I like the sound of my new title: "Tuesday Tunes with the Pig Roaster."

So welcome to post number 2 in my music series!

This week we take a look at Rodrigo y Gabriela. This couple was all over MTV (anybody remember what that is?) about a year ago. Not music videos, however, but in commercials - though I'm not sure what for. It was the Pig Roaster's wife who actually picked up on them and started sending YouTube links to the Roaster as she (correctly) assumed it was up his alley. Was it ever!

A little back story - these two are originally from Mexico City where they fronted an unsuccessful heavy metal outfit. From there, they somehow found their way to Dublin, Ireland where they found, of all things, Spanish Flamenco music. From all of this they've formed a sort of musical hybrid that they call "Heavy Metal Flamenco."

They can call it whatever they want - I call it GREAT! Flourishing acoustic guitar with lightning fast chops and syncopating rapid fire percussion (on the guitars!) mark this music with some serious attitude.

Diablo Rojo:


Tamacun:


Metallica's Orion:


Intrigued? You should be. Album recomendation: "Live in Manchester and Dublin" which includes not one, but two takes on another Metallica tune: "One"