Pescado Rabioso

Pescado Rabioso was born as an explosion of distorted guitars and lyrics that moved between the poetic and the visceral. Spinetta formed the trio with Black Amaya on drums and Osvaldo "Bocón" Frascino on bass —both from Engranaje, the band of Pappo— to explore a sound that blended raw blues with the heavy rock that was beginning to take shape in those years. The band's very name was a provocation: a fish afraid of water, an oxymoron that reflected the mix of fury and contradiction Spinetta sought to capture. Their debut in May 1972 at the Metro cinema marked the beginning of something new, but it was in the studio where they found their identity.

Recorded at Phonalex studios in September 1972, Desatormentándonos condensed that energy into eleven songs where the riff of "Me gusta ese tajo" and the dark psychedelia of "El monstruo de la laguna" instantly became references. The album included a sheet with a text by Spinetta that spoke of that "punk moment" he was living, but without falling into the obvious: it was not just noise, but a mix of distortion and lyricism where the electric guitar became the protagonist after years of Spinetta dominating the acoustic with Almendra. The presentation at the Atlantic theater in front of a thousand people, and later at Don Bosco in San Isidro —where Gustavo Spinetta replaced the sick Frascino— showed a band that no longer sought to fit into the rules of the business. Spinetta summed it up like this: "I rebelled by creating riffs".