Elvis Presley, AC/DC, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Hanoi Rocks, The Cramps, Kiss, James Brown, Charlie Parker, Judas Priest, Van Halen, Johnny Thunders, Billie Holiday, New York Dolls, John Mellencamp, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dizzy Gillespie, Sam Cooke, The Stooges, Tom Petty, Guns N'Roses, Alice Cooper, Neil Young, Marc Bolan, Otis Redding, Thin Lizzy, Eddie Cochran, Gram Parsons, Shannon Hoon, Tom Waits, Gene Vincent, Mötley Crüe, Hank Williams Sr., Ozzy Osbourne, Janis Joplin, Buddy Holly, Frank Sinatra, David Lee Roth, Wendy O. Williams...
Movies
“Rumble Fish”, “Sunset Boulevard”, “You Can’t Take It With You”, “All About Eve”, "Dr. Strangelove", “Car Wash”, “Lenny”, “On The Waterfront”, “Angel Heart”, "The Godfather", “Midnight Cowboy”, “The Misfits”, “The Asphalt Jungle”, “Raging Bull”, “The Hustler”, “Double Indemnity”, “Once Upon A Time In America”, "Dracula" (31), "The Unknown", “Days Of Wine and Roses”, “Taxi Driver”, “The King Of Comedy”, “The Big Sleep”, “Bad Lieutenant”, “What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?”, “Harold and Maude”, “Mommie Dearest”, “The Maltese Falcon”, "Double Agent '73", “The Deer Hunter”, “Planet of the Apes”, “Captain Blood”, “The Treasure of Sierra Madre”, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, “The Searchers”, “The Marriage of Maria Braun”, "The Killing", “Scarecrow”, "Star Wars", "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "The Getaway", "Frankenstein" (31), "Blue Velvet", "The Wizard of Oz", "Bird", "Touch of Evil", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Rear Window", "Barton Fink", "Blade Runner", "A Woman Under the Influence", "Goodfellas", "Lolita", "Apocalypse Now", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Sweet Bird of Youth", "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Casablanca", "American Graffiti", "White Heat", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Opening Night", "Laura", "East of Eden", "French Connection", "The Last Waltz", "This Is Spinal Tap", "The Night of the Hunter", "Freaks", "Elmer Gantry", "Grey Gardens", "Box of Moonlight", "Paths of Glory", "Mean Streets", "The Grifters", "Down By Law", "The Bride of Frankenstein", "The Empire Strikes Back", "Cool Hand Luke", "The Philadelphia Story", "Beau Geste", "The Out-of-Towners"...
Television
“The Twilight Zone”, “Ultraman”
Books
“My Face For The World To See” (Liz Renay), “Tallulah” (Tallulah Bankhead), “My Wicked Wicked Ways” (Errol Flynn), “Satchmo” (Louis Armstrong), “Will There Really Be A Morning?” (Frances Farmer)
Heroes
Liz Renay, Elvis Presley, Tallulah Bankhead, Forrest J. Ackerman
Cesar Martin's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking
Hometown:
Barcelona
Ethnicity:
Latino / Hispanic
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini
Occupation:
Periodista
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About me: The year was 1973. Popular 1, Spain’s original rock’n’roll magazine, was born.
It was a weird time to start a rock magazine. A dictator was in charge of the country, there was no freedom of expression at all, and suddenly Spain’s first rock magazine hit the news stands. That same year, the New York Dolls, Queen and Lynyrd Skynyrd released their first albums. Led Zeppelin was the biggest band in the world, and thousands of kids wanted to be Ziggy Stardust. One of the first covers of Popular 1 was dedicated to Marc Bolan.
My parents, Bertha Yebra and Jose Luís Martín, had the crazy idea to create a rock’n’roll magazine in a country like Spain. Back then, most bands never played in our country and it was hard to find rock records in stores, but every month my parents traveled around the world to interview bands and review shows. Little by little, the situation in Spain started to change, and bands like the Stones, Queen and EL&P toured Spain for the first time.
I grew up in the headquarters of the magazine. Our home was also the magazine’s office and bands and writers were always there -- in our kitchen, in our living room, doing drugs and listening to music. I was a kid and I had no idea what a rock’n’roll magazine was. I was pretty sure that all those people were just friends of the family, but boy, they were weird.
Since I had no brothers or sisters, the musicians and writers that hung around the magazine became my playmates. The guy in charge of the magazine’s art department used to make paper toys for me, and the writers told me stories about bands. It was a fun and unusual place to grow up.
When I was nine or ten years old, I started to explore the record collection of my parents. Elvis, the Stones, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Iggy, KISS... We had all their albums in our house. After a while, the rock’n’roll records replaced my toys and I was hooked forever. I loved to go to rock shows all the time and see what was going on offstage. If you are 13 and your parents decide it’s time to meet Motörhead in their dressing room, well, it’s difficult to go to school the next morning and act like nothing happened.
I began to write for the magazine when I was 15 years old. It was mind blowing to be able to write columns and interview and photograph bands in huge, scary heavy metal festivals like Donington. During my first couple of years at Popular 1, I probably wrote the worst articles ever published in a rock magazine. I was a kid, I had no idea what I was doing, but who cares? I had the time of my life.
I started answering letters from readers in 1986, and I’m still doing it after all these years. One of the coolest things of Popular 1 is the loyalty of the readers, who keep reading and collecting the magazine for 10, 20 or even 30 years.
I became Editor-in-Chief of the magazine in 1990 and I still write every month. My best experiences with Popular 1 in the last ten years were my trips to L.A., where I met wonderful people who later became very dear friends, like Raven De La Croix, Liz Renay, Bam & Share Ross (Bubble), Jim Wilson (Mother Superior) and Eddie Nichols (Royal Crown Revue). Also, it was amazing to be able to interview legendary icons like Mamie Van Doren, Mink Stole, The Cramps, Sally Kirkland, June Wilkinson, Kitten Natividad, Mary Woronov, and Forrest Ackerman in their own homes.
Those trips were always very exciting. Sometimes an hour-long interview would turn into spending one or two days with that person, and I just enjoyed the experience. I have many amazing memories: for instance, Sally Kirkland praying for me on my birthday when I visited her home… Eddie Nichols showing me his favorite place in town: a deserted spot under a bridge near the L.A. River, where he used to spend time alone… or when I was to meet Slymenstra Hymen of GWAR and she informed me of the total stranger who was to pick me up and drive me to her home in the outskirts of L.A.: “The Torture King will pick you up in his van.”
I’ve realized through the years that the artists I really like to meet are almost always underground. It can be really depressing to meet one of your heroes in a typical promo-interview arranged by a record company. There are exceptions of course. If the artist is Little Steven, you will never forget the experience. But I have zero interest in meeting the Jaggers and De Niros of this world. It’s always better to enjoy them from afar, through their work.
I also do shows with my wife, the American comedian Rachel Arieff. We started the show Anti-Karaoke in 2005 and never stopped. You can see it every Monday in Barcelona (Apolo 2) and the last Wednesday of every month in Madrid (El Sol club). With Anti-Karaoke, the same thing happened as with the magazine: the beauty of the show is the loyalty of a bunch of fans who are always there and help us to make it happen.
Also, I work with Rachel in her stand-up comedy show “Cómo ser feliz todo el tiempo” (“How to Be Happy All the Time”), the coolest comedy show in this country. We started it in 2003, and we still do it the first Thursday of every month in Barcelona (Café Teatro Llantiol).
I have a blog in Spanish that I update often, but it's on the Popular 1 website. Visit it here.
Hola, César, qué tal estás. Sé que odias las Navidades así que he procurado escoger estampas navideñas un tanto diferentes. Espero que te gusten. Sigue así, el Popu es una fuente inagotable de alegrías y una auténtica guía en estos oscuros tiempos.
Una maravilla las páginas sobre Queen. Buscando información sobre Lady Dottie di con esta supermujer. Candye Kane ¿la conoces? Blues, rockandroll y antigua pornstar ¿Quién quiere Ladies Gagas?
nuevo artículo de la revista de eMILIO. un homenaje a Frank Galvin, el prota de Veredicto Final!! ¿¿¿os habéis preguntado el gran parecido, en este cartel, de Paul Newman con George Bush????? terrorífico.
Qué decirte César que tú ya no sepas!! pues eso... que vienen los Quireboys a mi ciudad!! y el Jello Biafra con los medicines!! y los Fleshtones!!! qué movidón de mes.
pa tí y tus colegas...una fotico trillá de los Journey... ya sabes... viajando al otro lado del mástil!!
Por lo visto todo ha sido un rumor difundido por algun idiota,la familia ha desmentido la muerte de Chuck,sera mejor no hacer caso a las noticias que leemos en la red,cualquiera puede inventar una noticia y difundirla sin escrupulos,me siento un pringado.
Este viernes montamos una fiestecita sleazy en Valencia...se que pilla lejos,pero por si acaso...si hace qunce años me hubieran dicho que algun dia podria volver a pinchar estos discos en un sitio que no fuera mi casa no me lo habria creido!!
Buenos dias! Parece que nadie se ha dado cuenta, pero este mes, Ocubre de 2009 se cumpen veinticinco años de la aparición de NO ME JUDAS, un relato con el que hemos ido creciendo y con el que hemos entrado en cuarentena, es decir en los temidos cuarenta. No se si felicitar a alguien o dar el pésame, pero en cualquier caso, sí hacer un guiño a quien se sienta aludido. Una adivinanza: ¿En que década el heavy metal fue más grande que la vida La respuesta en esta portada, donde nacio NO ME JUDAS Miguel. Asturias www.metal80.com
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