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Pollo Elastico (Poy-oh Ee-las-tee-co) hatched in the fall of 87, under a scorching moon in Tucson Arizona, at a deserted downtown parking garage that was a favorite local skate spot.
Loaded (and in a loaded-down pickup), proto Pollo guitarist PETE HOLMES (Double Cheese), bassist ERIK MERRILL (Monkeyjam) and drummer MARVIN GERMAIN (Doctor Marv) plugged it in on the third story of the garage, cranked it up, and played au fresco, ad nauseum, and on the publics dime.
Everything went great until the local boys in blue showed up and chased the motley trio and a few stoned gawkers away.
ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END, and Pollo Elastico met their demise as Brooks and Merrill, confounded by the bands inability to break, departed for other things. In the grey, foggy dawn that inevitably seems to follow every truly great party, it became time to pick up all of the pieces: polyester jumpsuits, ski goggles, hair coats and plastic baby doll head necklaces. Small clumps of love and feathers. Empty beer cans.
I like your music guys, but i have a question...how it comes you called your band with an italian name, POLLO ELASTICO ???????? I simply love that name, brilliant, so great... a band from Arizona called ELASTIC CHICKEN in italian !!!!!!!!!
Feeling the page, dont be a stranger- checkout 'My Way video up on Channel U! get behind it vote 414 to 81700 bless - the club banger for summer 2007!!!
Pollo! So glad I found you. Thanks to you my Google page count has always been respectably double digit. Amazing the ripple of one small article so long ago. Hope you add SoCal to your next tour. You could play "Riverside" at UC Riverside - that song (and many others) still rocks in my head every now and then.
You Guys Rocked @ the Rialto this weekend. I can't wait to see you preform again. Tamborine man should be called rubber band man...that man Bounces!!!!!
