(la imagen no es del auténtico generador de Mario Lalli; a saber dónde está ahora casi treinta años después)
Esta vez no me lo he currado mucho, estaba buscando información y he encontrao esta referencia en el foro Rekords Rekords:
http://forum.rekordsrekords.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29056
Lo he apañao un poco (esos fallos de los apostrofes) y pegao tal cual:
"Since he was 16, Boomer has been doing music that didn't exactly fit the format at Mario's. "We grew up on Aerosmith and shit like that, but that was fantasyland. But when we saw D. Boon and Mike Watt and the cats in Black Flag and the guys in Redd Kross and the guys in Saccharine Trust, and these guys were guys like us! They're just DUDES. And skateboarding too had a lot to do with it, because it was all about Find a place. You wanna go skateboard? Find a pool, bail it out. You do all that work, you put effort into it, and then you've got this place. And that bled over into music." A turning point occurred when Boomer's friend Dave Travis, invited Boomer and a pal to jam with him up in Pacific Palisades, where he lived. "You couldn't play around there," says Boomer. "So we pulled off of Mulholland somewhere in the Hollywood Hills, into a turnout, near a silo or a gunnery site, unloaded his band and he started up this electric generator! And we just jammed, me, him and my friend Mike Glass. And that was like Whoaaaa man. It was beautiful, it was really cool. But the problem was guys would toss a few back and they'd think they could go up that tower and get stupid. We just decided it wasn't a great place to go. But in the desert, there's all that space out there where you don't have to worry about the cops and you can go and drink and just raise hell. I said, Dude, I got places at home where we can get 500 people out there when we play. A month later, he did one out there, and it just grew. I know now that it was nothing new--guys in the late 70's, going out in the desert, partying with the generator and some rock bands, but we didn't know those dudes then! So we'd be creative: we'd get a hundred feet of extension cord and a blue 100-watt floodlight and climb up in what one of the eroded dunes and place it up there, shining behind the band. All you needed were trash cans, a good generator, with a voltage regulator so it doesn't blow everyone's shit, some ice chests and some word-of-mouth. Cuz people are so fuckin' desperate for someting to do. It's nice and quiet and mellow, there's a lot to enjoy there, but there's no culture. You gotta make your own culture. It's like cheese: you gotta make your own." Just 18, Boomer had already become a legendary figure to musically inclined teenagers in the Low Desert."
Boomer (D Boon) era uno de los componentes de Minutemen, junto al gran Mike Watt. Dios los cría y ellos se juntan. A veces acojona las semejanzas entre personas y lugares tan distintos. Si alguien quiere una traducción "de rapidez" que me diga algo.
