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Vocalist / guitarist David Hidalgo and drummer Louie Pérez met at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, California, and bonded over their mutual affinity for obscure musical acts such as Fairport Convention, Randy Newman and Ry Cooder.

Pérez recalls, " We ’ re looking at each other, ' You like this stuff?

I thought I was the only weird one.

' So I went over to his house one day for about a year, which we spent listening to records, playing guitars, and starting to write songs.

" The two borrowed reel-to-reel recorders from a friend and created multi-track recordings of music spanning from parody songs to free-form jazz.

They later enlisted fellow students Cesar Rosas and Conrad Lozano to complete the group's lineup in 1973.