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La Ventanilla

Dynaflo started as front man (myself) Aaron Schaut in the late 1998 as Blue Max. Experimenting with various instruments  and digital recording processes after a history of punk rock (Ramones, The Clash, Black Flag) and rock n' roll (Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Alice Cooper, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Reverend Horton Heat) influences, I started to really get into acts like Tom Waits, Chuck E. Weiss, Leonard Cohen, Meat Puppets and John Lurie. All of these influences combed and started me down a strange path of Blues, Americana, Rock n Roll and Rock with a little bit of punk rock mixed in. During the latter part of the early 2000's I had written a song called Battery Operated Heart which caught the ear of author and comic book genius Warren Ellis. This gave me some credibility and a little bid of notoriety. During this time I also go into acts like Pixies, Arizona Amp and Alternator, Howe Gelb, Joe Peña, Gabriel Sullivan and Calexico and fell love with what appears to be a whole Tucson desert rock thing. I don't feel like all of these are a far cry from one another. It all shares a similar base. In the end, I'm making music I love to make and am not worried about how it fits into a scene. We've been compared to stuff like Silver Jews, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and even Marty Robbins. All of this is fine with me. Hell, most of what we've been compared to I would call a hell-uv-a compliment.