The music should never have come out of the theaters because it is where it sounds good and you can see it well and where there is no idiot throwing beer at you … », says Goñi. “It’s not that I don’t miss concerts in front of a crowd, it’s that I love not doing them.”
After the pandemic, have you returned more eager or more angry?
No more angry, because life is not an ascending line until you die but it has ups and downs and a lot of curves that come without warning. It does make me angry that last year I had a wonderful tour that we had to cancel. That is a tremendous bitch, but instead of raising a million complaints to life I opted to recharge my batteries and put on gloves for whatever comes next.
Does the music industry come out stronger?
Nobody comes out stronger from this, we come out well touched. And I don’t believe in the new normal either. This has been an absolute abnormality and perhaps little by little we will recover our lives that, contrary to what some insisted on, the pandemic has shown that it was not so bad.
Have certain musicians been right to give their opinion on the origin of the virus or whether or not to get vaccinated?
If a carpenter, a plumber or an electrician has the right to give his opinion, why should not a musician give it.
Perhaps because the carpenter or the electrician is neither idolized nor has pulpits from which to comment.
So we are talking about responsibility. But since it turns out that Miguel Bosé’s lyrics are paid for him and not you or me, he can say whatever he wants. Then there is the question of whether or not you agree with what he says. But as long as that exposure of whatever it is does not come from public money, each one to say what they want.
Does music still bring you the same thing as when you started with Revolver 30 years ago?
It is still what makes me wake up every morning, it is my great passion and I have an imposing respect for it. I leave my life on it. I considered each concert as if it were the first and the last and each song as the best that I am capable of writing. In the rest, I have changed in everything.
And what are you better at?
I am much more tolerant of many things with which I was not before and intolerant of only one: with the intolerant. Before I killed flies with cannon shots and now I have learned to relativize everything a lot, to enjoy what I have a lot and not to regret what I do not have.
I suppose that after four decades of career there will be things that you would erase.
Normally I think nothing is good enough, but since I’ve done my best, I can sleep soundly. Success is that. Of course I would erase things: circumstances, moments, relationships … But on the other hand, I believe that we are what we were, and all the things that I have done in life have made me what I am now. What I don’t like I am changing and little by little I am winning wars that I had pending.
What should Revolver do to his fans?
The utmost respect. I have made each album without taking into account the fashions or if the previous one I made was liked or not. The songs come from the heart, from mine, and that is why after leaving the Swan Committee I have never belonged to any group as such. But I have always thought of concerts as a party in which I am the host and I have to make the public have the best possible time. That is why I have a repertoire of 40 or 50 songs. Some days some sound, others others sound, and later there are songs that always sound because it is what the public wants. I am not as self-centered as others to say ‘now you screw up and you do not listen to this song’. There are people who spend their time and money on me. How can I not do what he wants?
This is what Héctor Lavoe sang in “The singer.”
I already 5 or 6 years ago I wondered what it contributed. A mechanic contributes, a nurse, a doctor … And what do I contribute? Well, make the life of all these more pleasant. What I do not share is this effort of the national “musiquerío” to be culture. I do not belong to the world of culture, my profession is entertainment and that is wonderful.
Have you acquired a class consciousness?
It is my job and my passion and thank God after a lot of years I can continue to exercise it. Happiness comes from playing the guitar, not making money. What’s more, the money that playing the guitar gives me is what allows me to continue playing the guitar.
Has playing the guitar made you a musician but not rich?
No. Besides, I have been divorced twice and that is criminal for the checking account.
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