The Thunderclouds

The Thunderclouds Live In Buenos Aires at The Roxy April 2006»-(¯`v´¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯`v´¯)-«In between touring with Finland´s wild outfit The Flaming Sideburns, singer Eduardo Martínez recently found time to pay tribute to songs written by Smack lead vocalist CLAUDE, also The Fishfaces, Fellow Reptiles and TV Eyes fame. Eduardo has joined forces on this project with Argentina´s Corazones Muertos singer and guitar slinger JOE KLENNER. Together they have already released an album. "Hyena Planet Bites On You" came out only in Argentina 2005 but that same year saw Eduardo joining back his old pals of The Fishfaces + Smack bass player Jimi Sero in Helsinki and hybrid into The Smackfaces. Smackfaces performed with guests Jukka Orma, Manna and Jyrki 69 celebrating this year´s release of SMACK´s "In Your Face 1982-1990" double compilation by Sony/BMG Finland.THE THUNDERCLOUDS, and even THE PSYCLONES with Joe Klenner before that has been Eduardo´s side-proyect while on holidays in Argentina. EDUARDO: "Our first gig together with Joe was at a theatre somewhere in El Abasto, September of 2000. In 2002 Bourbon Records in Buenos Aires offered us unlimited free studio time so we did something there, using only acoustic guitars which I really liked but next to that I returned to Finland. In between my next visit to Argentina Joe had gone on tour with his own band Corazones Muertos to Brazil, met a girl there and got married in São Paulo. All of this happened in the middle of a "technical ecstacy" period so we´ve kept in touch ever since!!! At the time he was into Smack and I had also joined briefly the rest of The Fishfaces after Claude´s death more than ten years ago, plus knew some of his unreleased songs, so we figured it would be nice to give them one more try, only that using local musicians and laying it down on record at the same time!" After that it would be only a matter of time that everybody knew Eduardo would want to come back and perform those songs live. Bourbon Studios´ engineer DAMIÁN TORRISSIi on KEYBOARDS and ALEJANDRO from Corazones Muertos on DRUMS recruited Hanoi Rocks´Obscured composer GABY ZERO on GUITAR and Eduardo´s childhood friend DIEGO PELLEGRINI on BASS. By March of 2006 both Eduardo & Joe (still living in São Paulo and now running his own club) came to Buenos Aires and finally made it official: they performed 4 spectacular shows with the new born Thunderclouds!!!!!!By October of 2006 Eduardo would be flying again, now to São Paulo of Brazil for some more dates. This time the line-up was reduced to GABY ZERO on GUITAR, Corazones Muertos, Coverheads (ex Zero, Michael Monroe, etc…), ALEX on DRUMS (Corazones Muertos, Coverheads) and ROGER MARX on BASS from the brazilians Cyber Jack and The RIPS with JOE KLENNER (now also in RIPS!!!) plus Mr. MARTÍNEZ of course!!!! For the last date FORGOTTEN BOYS ´Flavio (who also replaced DENNIS THOMPSON in DTK/MC5 for the brazilian dates) borrowed the drum stool for his favourite Flaming Sideburns song at the encore: "Flowers" and even "Lost Generation" back in those days still unreleased. Earlier on that same week at the official opening of INFERNO´S CLUB Eduardo had joined onstage The Forgotten Boys and their kick-ass rendition of Stooges and MC5 covers. There´s an exclusive "never on record" Claude/Metsola/Saikki composition. "GONE BLUE BABY" originally by THE FISHFACES was also intended for the posthumous album "Leaving The Planet" (Zen Garden 1998) but never actually finished. Eduardo re-recorded around 2002 during a jam that included the Dashing Waves brothers Joakim & Janec Bachmann on drums & guitar, JUHA METSOLA on guitar plus french bass player Tristán Boureau, who recorded the whole thing in Helsinki and later even overdubbed a horn section and backin´vocals with his portable recorder in Paris!!! It was re-mixed by Eduardo Martínez and Damián Torrisi at Boubon Studios in Buenos Aires last April. ALL IN THE NAME OF ART!!!! ENYOY THE MUSIC OF THE FISHFACES & SMACK!!!!