Early Rock and Roll In Puerto Rico

A groovy and extra-ordinary privilege it was!! YEAH...to live through the magical decades from the 1960's on and experience the beginning and evolution of Rock and Roll on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. This site is dedicated to all of the exceptional musicians and bands of P.R., and to the loyal fans, with the collaboration and input of the Puerto Rico Rock Heroes and Fans themselves to create a special memento, as well as a legacy for future generations. All else on this site is about people, things, news, events and moments that influenced us throughout the years, and that are still meaningful today, as well as some other interesting and fun things.

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PUERTO RICO ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Puerto Rico Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (PRRRHF) was established to document the Rock genre's impact and history in Puertro Rico, as well as recognize and honor the bands and musicians who have contributed and taken part in the music movement on the Island starting way back in the early 1960's.

Puerto Rico Rock and Roll Hall of Fame April 2016 5th Music Awards presentation was a spectacular and unforgettable night of Rockin' and Rollin' to some sensational music!! Stay tuned for future PRRRHF events. Click on the link for more.

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ALL STAR BAND

 

 

The Bands

 Los Sonset
The Telstars
Abram Shoo
The Carpetbaggers
The Challengers
The Teen Sounds/
   Sound Inc.
The Living End
The Stokes
The Thunders
The We Know You
 Los Spiders
 CHiLD
 Los Diamantes
 Vivanativa
 TAWA
 Tayno Band
 Requiem Band
 The Gadgets
 The Starlights
 Bandolero
 Los Vagabond
Arrasa
 Banko
 The Mockngbirds
 Los We
 Los X-5
The Voltures
The Head Hunters *
Banda del K-rajo
 Raices
The Chessmen
 Los Vulcans
Los Wildkatts
The Mods
The Soul Robbers
The Wild Byrds
 The Wanderers
 The Travelers
 The Bonets
The Birdstones
Los Strangers
 Caravana
 Quantum *
 D'Ratz *
 Guamaní
 The Night Walkers
 The Manic
    Depression
 The Marvins
 Kaleidoscope
 Los Bad Guys
 Katraska
 RPM
 The Unknowns
 The Undertakers
 The Humbugs
 Sirius Trixon & The
   Rocking Chairs
 New Zealand Trading
    Company
 The King Bees
 Hot Coffee
 Take Six
 The Uglys
 The Wild Bunch
 East Side Band
 Beholder
 Back Street
The Chosen
Cro-Magnons
 Strange Souls
 Island
 King Stones
Top Banana
 Pelican in Flight
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If you have info or photos of the bands that played in PR let me know! Email to
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Mar Y Sol Pop Festival
Vega Baja, PR ~ 1971

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¿Why Rock and Roll...in Puerto Rico?
Brief Origin of Rock and Roll by Orly Vázquez (The Telstars) aka Don Jíbaro, illustrious author of jibaros.com

Rock and Roll in Puerto Rico has been a product of direct and indirect influence from both American rock music and Latin rock music, and its fusion with other genres. Throughout history, the Rock genre had suffered ups and downs, having a significant peak in the 1960's. The late 1950's marks the introduction of the genre in Puerto Rico, with the Elvis Presley hype in the USA reaching the island. READ MORE

The P.R. Rock Heroes


COLLAGE OF A FEW 1960's PUERTO RICO BANDS
(by Penny Andrea-Einmo)

Let's give accolades where they're due, because we were the first long haired ones that the kids threw rocks at, calling us... "hippie", "faggot", "patoooo", "weirdo", etc. We endured the intrinsically penetrating stares of the people when we got on the bus or we entered a place of business. It was hard... but we held our chins high because we believed we had a purpose. And guess what? Today, Rock and Roll is a MULTI TRILLION dollar business in every way, shape and form. Not bad for a bunch of "hippies" and "patos"! So here is a humble tribute. Deepest appreciation to all who have contributed to rockinpr.net and helped make it the best and most accurate source of information for Puerto Rico Rock and Roll music.

Tony Alicea
YES! I was born in the house my father built... NOT! The rest is hysteria, I mean history!...well, you know. When I was four years old, somebody gave me a toy piano and soon I started imitating tunes from the radio and TV without much effort. But I also loved to listen to the radio. READ MORE

Carli Muñoz
This is a brief history of Rock and Roll in Puerto Rico, mainly focused on my participation in it since 1961.
I was then 13 years old but due to my height and appearance I looked older and had no problem going to nightclubs and integrating with the older musicians. It was at a club called the "Quiet Village" on Recinto Sur Street in Old San Juan, where I had my first 'real' experience playing Rock and R & B (Rhythm & Blues) with American musicians. READ MORE

David Romero
Where do I start? I guess it would be in grade school at República del Peru on la Calle Loiza where I had to go after our family moved to P.R. after 13 years living in California. It was hard being el Americano there, and I remember one of the things I looked forward to was getting off the bus from urbanización Los Angeles where we lived, and going to the little store next to school where you could get snacks. They had a juke box... READ MORE

Joe Taino
Taino here. Talking about P.R. and what I know...my uncle was in the Navy and he used to take me to the swimming pool at the Navy base in San Juan on Saturdays, and there was where I heard American music (Rock and Roll) most of the time, or what I could hear on the am radio once in a while.
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Joey "Lindin" Barbosa
In 1966 I formed a band in my garage. The name was THE GADGETS. At the beginning the members were Alex Rodriguez (THE CHALLENGERS), Johnny, Felix Rodriguez (later with LA BANDA DEL K-RAJO), Elmo (great singer), and yours truly. Later Alex left with TheChallengers and Johnny went into the Army. READ MORE

Roberto "Bobby" Puras
Starting at the age of 15 I joined a series of Rock bands in Puerto Rico such as The We Know You, The Challengers, We, The Undertakers, and finally The Living End in 1965. The Living End started in 1964. READ MORE

Héctor Candelas
When I go back and try to pinpoint how I gravitated to the world of music, I recall being fixed on two things: the beat and the melody. I remember, as a kid, playing my mother’s pots and pans from the kitchen. I loved the type of sound they created. And that Sultana Crackers can… What a sound!
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Angel (Papo) Rodriguez - **SOON**

Adrian Montijo
A transplant from the Surf Music capital of Southern California, arrived in Puerto Rico in 1963 with a Surfboard, a Silvertone guitar, and an amplifier, with only "Gringo English". Upon enrollment into La Gabriela Mistral he barely survived his unwelcome homecoming by the hands of the Los Conservativos! To preserve his existence he was handed an 8 inch knife by none other than Pedro (Pete) Rivera, another English speaking Rican, and future drummer for The Telstars (little did he know it then).
Pete carried in his back pocket drumsticks, and was always banging on the school furniture, so I convinced him to buy a drum set to bang on & a surfboard. One day at La Gabriela they were having Field Day, and at the convincing of our classmates we set up the drums and my guitar equipment and played for our classmates the few songs we had rehearsed so far, "WIPE OUT", MISERLOU, PIPELINE, TELSTAR, basically, instrumental Surf Music from California!

Adrian Montijo performing with Godin synthesizer guitar playing bass pedals. Interpretation of The Beatles "Come Together", March, 2011.
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Woodstock ~ 1969

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The Damage LSD Does!

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Ringo's B-Day Message 2013

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Eric Clapton used a 1964 Gibson SG Standard guitar starting in 1967 while with the band "Cream". This guitar was known as the "Fool", as it was painted by the Dutch artists, Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger, known collectively as "The Fool".
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Misheard lyrics, such as "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of the correct "There's a bad moon on the rise" - is called a mondegreen.


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 The first Bed-In for Peace took place after John and Yoko Ono's secret marriage in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969. See the video and read more about it HERE


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Stevie Nicks performing her high energy super hit "Stand Back" on July 30, 2005 at the Chronicle Pavilion in Concord, CA, with a dynamite sound and conga intro. by master percussionist Taku Hirano.
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