The Dragons
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The Dragons began back in 1991 in San Diego California. Three months later after playing the first of 11 South By Southwest Music Conference Showcases the band released a Vinyl E-P called "X" for a label in Spain called Impossible Records.
| A year later they followed with a single for poptone records which put them on the map in San Diego. In 1996 The Dragons Recorded "Painkiller" for Scam-O-Rama records owned by the infamous "InebriaTED" who discovered the band as writer for Flipside Magazine in Los Angeles. |
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Two years later in The Dragons signed a deal with Junk Records from Long Beach with Louie Carus and the "Black Devil" himself and released "Cheers To Me", "R.L.F" and "Kamikaze" in three consecutive years. They followed that with a Japanese Only Release "The Dragons" and toured Japan (Kenny's Homeland).
In 2003 The Dragons signed with Gearhead Records with the "Master Mechanic himself" Mike LaVella and Michelle Haunold and released "Sin Salvation" and then followed that with a remixed and remastered "RockNRoll Kamikaze".
The Dragons have toured with The Wildhearts, Guitar Wolf, The
Hellacopters, Riverboat Gamblers, B-Movie Rats, Gaza Strippers, The
Demons, The Black Halos, The Spitfires, and many more...
Shared Bills with The Supersuckers, The Backyard Babies, Rocket From
The Crypt, The Muffs, The Zeros.
"Nothing lasts forever" sang Axl Rose, and so it goes with San Diego's Dragons.
After 13 years and six albums, the band announced it was parting ways back in November, via a website post that pointed no fingers. Simply, it was said, "the course had been run."
In the same post, there were words about Dragons singer Mario Escovedo's solo project. But there wasn't much info on the new stuff, and it seemed anybody close to Escovedo was operating under a strict "loose lips sink ships" policy.
Escovedo says some songs are, "Gram Parsons-ish and some are honky tonk rocking like the Stones during the 'Exile'-era. I imagine some songs will be compared to my older brother Alejandro's recordings, but that would be a compliment to me."
He adds the songs are about where he's at right now: "Older man now going through divorce; father died recently; falling in love again; and trying to start a new musical career after my best friend and former guitarist moved back to Japan."
He also says there's more people on the bus this time, including, "Jarrod Lucas on drums, formerly of The Dragons, Gerry Wasson on bass, who has played with The Georgia Satellites and other Atlanta alums, Robbie Dodd on guitar from Convoy, "Mocha" Joe Camacho on slide guitar and guitar ... and I plan to add keys and possibly some strings."
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There music was lame and the singing by Mario "the horses ass" Escovedo was simply atrocious.
Marios new band "MEX" is continuing the tradition of SUCKING as hard as possible. It's amazing that people think doing favors for Mario will help them get on KFMB channel 8 news where Mario has to work since he could never earn a living as a musician(calling him a musician is a stretch).
Please Mario, quit torturing people in your quest to live in the limelight of some of your distant family members