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Continued entry of 16 September 2010: Julian Ringo (he removed the accents!)

Anna Nyström : Alfredo, how Ringo first met Julian ? Alfredo
Calonge : When frequented the Musical Bar Mary ( this bar still exists) with Tutti (productions Violet) and Navarro (friend of Alfredo).
Anna Nyström: "It was a character in the Barcelona scene? Alfredo
Calonge : an uncle was very committed to the Mod movement had a thug attitude as a counterpoint to his exquisite dress. I used to visit him in the family neckwear which was dependent to discuss the Mod scene between client and customer, models his modzine, reactions.
Nyström Anna: I've heard much good that modzine. What had made him so special? Alfredo
Calonge : It was very militant and very fun, with articles on art pop bands, mersey beat, soul, and pop art with fashion tips or chronic parties.
Nyström Anna: I have understood that organized a rally in Barcelona mod. Right?
Alfredo C Alonge : Right. He was to become the first Meeting Mod scooters Barcelona - Lloret de Mar in 1985.
Anna Nyström : At this time I was interested in painting? Alfredo
Calonge : Yes prevented from starting as a painter of pop-art style. His early work, still have some, were small films with motifs of advertising icons. Then, with the female figure as the main reason. He painted real girls - friends, actresses, models, activists, pop scenarios. Anna Nyström : guess, so accounts, Ringo Julian should be a true benchmark mod in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bright?
Calonge Alfredo: Yes, but was in constant evolution. Is interested in the Situationist movement, the proven, psychedelia, happenings and take a Catalan nationalist consciousness. It creates enmity between the mods which tend to return to orthodoxy.
Anna Nyström: Meanwhile, seguiais you imagine seeing. Alfredo
Calonge : Yes but at the beginning of our friendship was strengthened 90 u more. In the company of Jose Luis Navarro formed a Rat Pack (gang of rats, was the name under which he met a group of American artists who gathered around Frank Sinatra, extended their private activities as friends to the achievement of certain artistic activities such as movies, concerts, shows, etc.. Its best known members were, apart from Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, and core).
Anna Nyström : What do you remember those years? Alfredo
Calonge : These were years of Dolce Vita. Intense. Ringo ran a small bar in the old part of Barcelona called The Pop Place where they met art students, musicians ... there are exhibitions and performances. Closed bar, tired and listless, leaving orphans.
Anna Nyström : And what happened then? Alfredo
Calonge : Ringo entered a long period of isolation. He became interested in entheogenic drugs s, shamanism, and transpersonal psychology.
Anna Nyström : all this is reflected in his painting, I guess. Alfredo
Calonge : Of course. His work is abstract but kept the female figure as subject. He also writes poems and military associations and the autocultivo antiprohibitionist cannabis.
Anna Nyström : What makes Julian Ringo now? Alfredo
Cal Onge : After the death of his mother, started new work and is interested in exposing. Anna Nyström
: Can you tell something about his relationship with The Negatives? Alfredo
Calonge : Your performance at our performance in Arbucies . I was a spectator (Alfredo was not yet part of the negatives) and suffered its creative fury in the form of eggs and paint stains on white pants Release.
also did murals for the entry shows in Zeleste (the phrase I have smoke starch to the echo of your lungs heard at the end of the song A special day of kaleidoscopic Piknik but not on the sheet with the lyrics, so I conclude Julian Ringo was the author of that phrase and include it in the album was a tribute or a nod), collaborated playing harmonica and Priestess vacuum electric meat and concert My generation, destroying served as the canvas cover of the compilation of Al · leluia Records .


(As discussed in a previous post, Alfredo Julian Ringo forget that at the end of the video of Turpentine doing a performance - I would also like to again thank Ringo Julian for allowing us to use his work to renew the image of My Space in the negative. Hope you like it. I'm still working on it but be so condescending Visit Him! MySpace The Negatives )