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Old Hat #1

A Gringo Like Me (247)

The Story To The Song
Not only is ‘A Gringo Like Me’ the most downloaded track of our platform. It is also the first (and only) track, which has been airplayed on nationwide radio fm4 for several weeks and brought me the very first fan mail of my life. The reason for this damn sure is not my skillz as a rapper (let alone, my bad English) but that one sample, which gave the song its hook line and title as well.

It was fall 2002. The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq had reached a level of intensity, they could have really existed as well. War was only a question of time. So I came up with ‘A Gringo Like Me’ - nothing new, nothing original. Just my personal little contribution to the international protest against the cowboy-behaviour of the USA. (And of course it took me far too long to get from composition to the final mixdown; in the end, George, the double-U, was quicker…)

The Protestsong-Contest
Another six months later, in fall 2003, my old friend yXee rang me up: he had heard of a “contest for protest songs” on radio fm4 - What about my little Gringo-thing?
Well, I thought, why not? Roasted a silver disc and sent it to the fm4-studios in Vienna. Man, I had no idea…

A few weeks later I found myself at the semi-finals at the Vienna main library, amongst 25 music acts from Austria and Germany. Now, we were told, a jury would select the 10 bands to compete live in February 2004 at the finals of the 1st Protestsong-Contest at the Rabenhof theater, Vienna.
Fine. The problem was - there was no such band named “Autlaw”…

Finally, Andi Leeb aka phr3ak, drummer of Rocquette helped me out, and he was a phantastic support rapper; and yXee joined us on my old VS-1680 and played the best Fake-DJ ever.

Those of you familiar to our site should already know the pictures of that very first live-appearance from our online gallery.
Now, here comes - straight from the depths of my private archives - a previously unreleased video-clip, taken by the phamous Phillipp Toscani (Eighty3.org):

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