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La Chinga Post “Gone Gypsy” Video

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Hell-raising Vancouver heavy rockers La Chinga released their second album, Freewheelin’ (review here) earlier this year on Small Stone just in time to head abroad for a European tour. No doubt that was good times, since good times seem to be the band’s specialty — classic brash-duder songcraft given a modern booze-ready execution, unabashed in its affection for a drive-ready hook and an appeal to the songcraft sucker in all of us. Only fair they should take that show on the road, since that seems to be where it was made for in the first place.

You can see that ethic coming to life, plus a bit of other imagery, in their new video for “Gone Gypsy.” Something of a road-song in itself, “Gone Gypsy” speaks to the restlessness that lies beneath the drive to get out and do a show in a different city every night, and accordingly, the video is a party. Out in a field. With fire. And booze. And vans. And tiny motorcycles. Shirts optional. You get the picture. And I mean that, because as the song itself plays toward classic ideas and ideals, so too does the video — with its kind of inexplicable NSFW splash screen below — work off a well established lifestyle ethic. I don’t know how often La Chinga go party in fields, but they certainly look like they’re having a good time doing it here, and as noted, good times are the whole idea.

Enjoy:

La Chinga, “Gone Gypsy” official video

Vancouver-based riff rock unit LA CHINGA has just issued a new video from their Freewheelin’ full-length released earlier this year through Small Stone Records.

Offers the band on the video, “Three shaggy haired men lost in the valley on a Summer’s day are picked up by a roaming band of strange of Boogie van neer’do’wells and are taken to the secret backwoods compound where the booze, bikes, broads, and Rock begin to flow in ridiculous amounts! As the sun sets the heat begins to rise…and so does the electric riffage! And then the deranged mayhem ensues! Warning! Not for the faint of heart! Pregnant women! Small children! Those with a delicate condition are warned to not watch this high rollin’ low brow goin’ freak fest! The living word in the flesh is presented here on the silver screen! Righteous and loose! Free and easy! Three men unbound, unchained and the pulchritudinous women who love them! LA CHINGA! In ‘Gone Gypsy’.”

Recorded and produced by drummer Jay Solyom in his home studio with the tracks “K. I .W.” and “Right On” captured by Eric Neilson and mastered by Chris Goosman (Acid King, Dixie Witch, Solace, Sasquatch et al), the ten-track Freewheelin’ is available through Small Stone Recordings on CD, digitally and limited vinyl with orders available at THIS LOCATION.

Produced and directed by Brian Johnson of Stampede Breakfast Productions.

Carl Spackler: Bass, Vocals
Ben Yardley: Guitars, Vocals
Jason Solyom: Drums

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La Chinga at Small Stone Records

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5 Responses to “La Chinga Post “Gone Gypsy” Video”

  1. Taint Stick says:

    The Gone Gypsy art is so blatantly inappropriate . How can you choose to condemn some bands while letting others go? Come on, dude.

    • Actually I mention it in the post: “with its kind of inexplicable NSFW splash screen below,” so not really sure where you’re coming from on that one.

      • Taint Stick says:

        You don’t condemn certain bands solely on their name?

        • I’m just gonna assume you’re talking about Black Pussy here, which I guess I didn’t get from your first comment. I have “Chinga” translating to “fuck” in English in Google. I don’t speak Spanish, so I don’t know if it also means pussy or what, but I’d go so far as to say a band calling itself “The Pussy” wouldn’t necessarily be as shitty as Black Pussy, but still kind of shitty. Basically I just think the use of denigrating and objectifying women to establish male-dominated spaces takes away from the power of music and I’m tired of looking at cartoon tits. If your sensibilities lead you to feel otherwise, you certainly have a right to feel that way and to express it however you see fit, much as I have a right to call it shitty. Thanks for reading.

  2. Jonan says:

    Yes Jay recorded and performed on the record, but it is I who appears in the video and is the active drummer. For the record.

    Cheers!

    Jonas Fairley

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