- Post date
- 19 Sep 2018
- Caption
- El bonus track de la noche: this an flyer for one of Las 15 Letras first ever shows in 1993 along wiht Los Olvidados. this tocada went down in a muebleria in South Los Angeles.
The band was originally called “Las 15 Letras de Dos Culturas” (the fifteen letters of two cultures). This was a nod to the band members fondness with the tales of the Mexican Revolution, that the Sánchez brother studied in their Chicano Studies class at Cal State L.A.
As Martín Sánchez explained in an interview, “We took the name after the cantina where Pancho Villa supposedly killed a former friend that betrayed him, and that event begins his journey as a revolutionary. We thought we were at the beginning of something revolutionary [with Rock en Español.] So, we named the band after a place where an important event in the Mexican Revolution takes place.
In addition, the band wanted to show that the band was a product of two cultures, the Mexican and the American cultures. The band’s deliberate process to pick the name was in line with their decision to only write and performs songs in Spanish, this in order to be fully immersed in the Rock Latino scene, yet it was also an acknowledgement to their sense of cultural belonging —perhaps in equal parts— to Latin America and the United States.
Flyer shared by Edgar Briones, Las 15 Letras sax player who performed with the band until 1998 or so.
- Location
- South Los Angeles
- Type
- flyer
- View on Instagram
- https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn7596ihYIz/
- View on Internet Archive
- https://archive.org/details/199312115908_201906