In the late 90´s, back when I was a kid, Rock music was kind of forbidden in my country for political reasons, there was only one show on TV that included every once in a while a couple of Hard Rock video clips late at night, but I was already in love with Rock and Heavy Metal by
then and that music healed me from the tough days I had, becoming an adolescent and living the worst economic crisis we have ever had in this country before or after.

One of those nights watching the show, waiting for the new clips late at night, there appeared a new band I didn´t know that started to play a song making use of Georges Méliés´ paraphernalia in his classic film “A Trip to the Moon”, right there my world stopped for about 4 minutes. It was simply amazing, I loved their music from that moment on, that song spoke straight to my heart and the visuals caught my attention equally. I took my notebook in a rush and wrote down: The Smashing Pumpkins – “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” and started from that day on a hunt to see where I could find a copy on a cassette of the whole album or at least that incredible song. Some years later I met a girl who had it on a tape that brought her father from the U.S. and then I knew what I suspected: I just enjoyed and LOVED the whole album and it made me a HUGE fan of the band until today.

Almost 20 years later I had the chance to travel to Germany and go for the first time in my life to a Rock Music Store. You may guess which was the first CD I bought there…