I’ll make
it easy for me and stay in Portugal as the link and I’ll also stick a bit with
the genre. Da Weasel was formed by MC Pacman and MC Virgul in 1993. The band
seized to exist only recently in 2010 without any explanation. Too bad you
might say since Da Weasel had a very good live act with a complete band on
stage.
It all
started in 1993 when they released a first EP named ‘More than 30
Motherfuckers’. An Ep which set the tone for the rest of their career. Although
releasing this EP in English, the first full album carried a Portuguese title
and all tracks were also in Portuguese. If I say that they sought their
inspiration with Cypress Hill and Public Enemy you can imagine the tone of the
full album.
Only in
1997 Virgul joined Da Weasel to replace Yen Sung who went full time solo as a
DJ. Virgul added ska and reggae to the band’s sound. This sound influenced the
EP 3° Capitulo in a certain way and Da Weasel changed styles a bit.
After
recording their fourth studio album (which has a very difficult title to write
down) they were asked to do the warm up for the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their
Portuguese stop on their Californication tour. After this memorable moment for
the band a few more left and joined Da Weasel only to leave MC Pacman and
Virgul as a security. In 2004 they even changed producers and the following
album was a great commercial success. Re-Definitions made platinum in Portugal
and the band again decided to go on tour through Europe and Brazil in 2005.
They
managed to release one more album and again it reached platinum within days.
Amor, Escarnio e Maldizir would be their last album ever since they’d split up
two years after. Maybe because Pacman and Virgul didn’t want to cooperate with
each other no more, maybe because of other reasons. We’ll probably never know.
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