as spirits, and not bowing down to a system that sees you as just another pebble on a beach. De la Rocha later said that the band was "about completely detaching ourselves from society to see ourselves as. While Rocha's influence was prevalent on performed yet unreleased Inside Out tracks like Darkness of Greed and Rage Against the Machine, the band broke up because of this conflict in 1991. Rocha wished to push the groups into a more political and hip hop-inspired direction, particularly influenced by Run-DMC, whereas DiCara wished for the band to write more music inspired by Hare Krishna. Towards the end of the band's lifetime, DiCara and Rocha's writing styles began to fracture. Their sole release was the 1990 EP No Spiritual Surrender, issued through Revelation Records. This act, now named Inside Out, began writing music heavily inspired by acts like Minor Threat and the Bad Brains, and soon were associated with the youth crew movement. Now lacking a guitarist, the remaining members contacted Vic DiCara, whom some knew from a previous band they were in that never made it past rehearsals. Inside Out īy 1988, singer Eric Ernst had departed from Hard Stance, leading to Rocha taking on the role of lead vocals. In 2018, Indecision Records officially released Hard Stance's entire discography. In 1987, he joined the straight edge band Hard Stance. De la Rocha's interest in punk rock bands like The Clash, The Misfits, Sex Pistols, and Bad Religion turned into an appreciation for other bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, and The Teen Idles. De la Rocha later described Irvine as "one of the most racist cities imaginable" and said that "if you were a Mexican in Irvine, you were there because you had a broom or a hammer in your hand." Musical career Early career ĭe la Rocha met Tim Commerford in elementary school, and in junior high school, they both played guitar in a band called Juvenile Expression. ĭe la Rocha's parents divorced when he was six, and he moved from East Los Angeles to Irvine with his mother, who attended the University of California at Irvine and earned a PhD in anthropology. De La Rocha would later see the hardships his grandfather endured reflected in the struggles of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. His grandfather Isaac de la Rocha (1909 - 1985) was an agricultural laborer in the U.S. De la Rocha's great grandfather, Jose Isaac de la Rocha Acosta (1882–1920), was a Mexican revolutionary who fought in the Mexican Revolution. Beto was a muralist and a member of Los Four, the first Chicano art collective to be exhibited at a museum ( LACMA, 1973). His father is a Mexican-American, with some African and Sephardi Jewish heritage, while his mother was born to Manuel García Urias, a Mexican-American, and Olive Pearl Fleming, who was of German and Irish heritage. De la Rocha was born in Long Beach, California, on January 12, 1970, to Robert "Beto" de la Rocha, and Olivia Lorryne Carter.
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