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This lineup recorded the band's first album, Electrify Me, [1] produced and engineered by Alan Kutner, and released in 1979. The Plugz melded the spirit of punk and Latino music. [1] After McBride left (sometime in 1979–80), he was replaced by John Curry from The Flyboys, who left to form Choir Invisible less than a year later. [2]
In 1984 The Plugz evolved into the Cruzados. In 1985, they released a self-titled album on Arista Records. The second album After Dark released in 1987 featured new guitarist Marshall Rohner. The band broke up in 1990. Larriva and the Cruzados were both briefly featured in the film Road House, starring Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott.
The album was released on April 18, 2008. A remastered edition of the band's debut album was issued in 2015, which contained two additional tracks ("Torquay" and "White Train"). Lost Tarantism, a collection of unreleased songs from the Tarantism sessions, also arrived that year. The band's latest album, 8 Arms to Hold You, was released in 2019.
Repo Man is the soundtrack album to the eponymous 1984 film, Repo Man. The soundtrack features songs by punk rock acts such as the Plugz, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies, Iggy Pop and others. The film score was created by Tito Larriva, Steven Hufsteter, Charlie Quintana and Tony Marsico of the Plugz. [1]
Mentioned in the lyrics to "Adolescent" from the 1978 album Electrify Me by The Plugz. Mentioned in the lyrics to "Kabuki Girl" from the 1982 album Milo Goes to College by the Descendents. The Atomic Cafe appears briefly in the 1983 film, Blue Thunder and in the Lionel Richie video "Running with the Night" of the same year.
Quintana was born in El Paso, Texas.He was a member of 1970s punk band The Plugz (which became a popular roots band in the 1980s), Cruzados, The Havalinas, Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds, and toured and/or recorded with Joan Osborne, John Doe, Cracker, Bob Dylan, Mark Curry, Jimmy and the Mustangs, 47C and many others.
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
The Cruzados were formed in 1983 by the members of The Plugz, featuring members Tito Larriva, Tony Marsico, Steven Hufsteter, Chalo Quintana, . The band's self-titled album on Arista Records, Cruzados, was released in 1985 as well as their second album After Dark in 1987.