Julio Alberto Guichet, the man who lost his mind listening to April Wine

Julio Alberto Lee Topeka Guichet (Luis Guillon? 1960?) was raised a Roman Catholic, he believed in Purgatory, and he was periodically wacked on the back of his head by the local church priest, father Carlos Carella, who used to wear a funky hairpiece (quincho).

I don't know if the bread nicely spread with butter and marmalade that his mom gave him had some narcotic substance, but Guichet's behavior started changing when he turned 14, as he heard Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, BTO, Cream, and Pappo's Blues on the radio, then Led Zeppelin, and finally the obscure Canadian band "April Wine", whose song "Just Like That" was aired on Radio Excelsior one Sunday afternoon: the young Guichet was so wacked by the wild rock and roll sound that he almost choked on the lasagna... fortunately, the opportune intervention of an ambulance coming in the nick of time saved his life, thanks to the officious karate chops of a doctor who -literally- knocked Guichet out, making him expel the intrusive portion of pasta out of his glottal regions with expeditious violence.

The next day, Guichet went to the biggest, most planetal record store of Luis Guillon: "Discos Importados Los Beatles", and spent all his savings on the expensive import copies of all the April Wine albums.
The young Guichet soon lost his good sense listening to the wild chords and unchained riffolae of tunes like "Oowatanite", "Electric Jewels", and "Cat's Claw", too heavy the rock for the neighbors who started feeling alarmed and menaced by Guichet's psychedelic rock for drug addicts.

It was the 14th of October of 1976 when Julio Alberto Guichet disappeared
because he was not seen any more in Luis Guillon
or any where, at all

his parents state that he was listening to the album "Electric Jewels" for 14 hours non-stop and his head finally imploded like an avocado submitted to the implaccable pressure of a laserlight full of laser

but that's just what they say.





... On the AKAI turntable, the needle still danced on the scratched groove, playing the same and only second of the song "I Can Hear You Calling", forever never any-more again.