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60-500: In February 1986, before a show in São Paulo , vocalist Branco Mello told newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo that the then upcoming album would have a "more dry and raw rock" and a "more primitive, more visceral" sound. Vocalist Arnaldo Antunes and guitarist Tony Bellotto 's arrest for drug possession in 1985 (and the former's subsequent three-year house arrest sentence); the "relative failure" of previous album Televisão ; and

120-415: A book with tales inspired by the album's tracks and a play inspired by the album were prepared, titled Cada um por si e Deus contra todos (Everyone for itself and God against all) and Cabeça , respectively. The play, directed by Felipe Vidal , take eight actors to the stage where they perform the entire album. It features "the sign of urgency and its relation with youth" in two different years: 1986 (when

180-403: A children project: the book/CD "Eu e Meu Guarda-Chuva" (Me and My Umbrella), which tells the story of a boy named Eugênio and his trusty umbrella. The CD comes with 10 songs made by him together with Ciro Pessoa , one of the founders of Titãs. The songs feature many famous artists, like Arnaldo Antunes , Elza Soares , Cássia Eller , Roberto Frejat , Toni Garrido and Marcelo D2 . A movie with

240-473: A coil of round wire wrapped around the outside, used for the heaviest three or four strings on a guitar). The first use of the pick slide is attributed to Bo Diddley and can be heard in the opening of his song "Road Runner". The two chief approaches to fast picking are alternate picking and economy picking . Alternate picking is when the player strictly alternates each stroke between downstrokes and upstrokes, regardless of changing strings. In economy picking,

300-499: A commercial failure. However, the album sold well, and Tony lost the bet. Until its first anniversary, the album sold 250,000 copies, with a total of 700,000 sold until 2016. When it reached 100,000 copies, the band received its first gold record and the band promoted a show in São Paulo in order to celebrate the milestone. Cabeça Dinossauro is considered one of the most important Brazilian 1980's rock albums, having been released in

360-492: A cultural producer. At his adolescence, already nicknamed Branco ("White") by his friends, he listened to almost everything. Frank Sinatra , Glenn Miller , Gilberto Gil , Caetano Veloso , Chuck Berry , Little Richard , The Doors , Stray Cats , The Clash , João Gilberto , Raul Seixas , Tim Maia , Cartola , Zé Ketti are some of his favorite artists. He decided to play the acoustic guitar. He and Marcelo Fromer , whom he met at Hugo Sacramento school, began to make

420-570: A demo recording session in the early 1980s, songwriters Nando Reis , Britto and Antunes took a break as the other Titãs recorded some instrumentals and hung out around a courtyard. Eventually, Reis spotted a cockroach emerging from the drain and that inspired him and the other two to write a song about it. According to him, the song uses the animals cited in the lyrics (cockroaches, rats and fleas), which are considered marginal animals, as metaphors for Titãs themselves, who would keep themselves away from musical and moral patterns and stereotypes. In one of

480-425: A friend of vocalist and keyboardist Sérgio Britto 's father. They replaced small reproductions the band had but could not use for the album due to low quality. He would say in 2006 that "the first 30,000 copies of the album were made in a mat and porous paper, much more expensive than the ordinary one. A gesture of generosity by André Midani, then president of Warner, which gave us total support before, during and after

540-464: A good alternative in many ways. Tortoise shell was rare, expensive, and had a tendency to break. Celluloid was made from cellulose , one of the most abundant raw materials in the world, and nitrocellulose combined with camphor under heat and pressure produced celluloid. Though originally meant as a replacement for ivory billiard balls , celluloid began being used for many things for its flexibility, durability, and relative inexpensiveness, making it

600-406: A harmonically richer sound than plastic, and change the sound of the acoustic and electric guitar . Some metal picks are even made from coins, which give players a unique tone as the alloys used in various coinage from around the world vary greatly. Playing guitar with a silver pick gives a unique, rich and bright sound, very different from normal plectrums ( Brian May of Queen often plays with

660-408: A natural candidate as a material for guitar picks. Later, other materials, such as nylon (and less commonly wood, glass, or metal) would become popular for making guitar picks for their increased grip, flexibility, or tonal qualities. D'Andrea Picks was the first company to create custom pick imprinting in 1938, allowing customers to order imprinting up to 12 block letters. One of the first to make

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720-569: A playing edge. The shark's fin pick can be used in two ways: normally, employing the blunt end; or the small perturbations can be raked across the strings producing a much fuller chord, or used to apply a "pick scrape" down the strings producing a very harsh, scratching noise. The sharp edged pick is used to create an easier motion of picking across the strings. Some guitar pick shapes are patented. Usually those patents claim ornamental design . Picks are usually gripped with two fingers— thumb and index —and are played with pointed end facing

780-452: A result of differences in density, hardness and cellular structure. Most wood picks produce a warmer tone than plastics or metals. To withstand the rigors of picking and strumming only the hardest woods on the Janka scale are used for picks—including hardwoods like African Blackwood , Bocote , Cocobolo , Lignum vitae , Rosewood , and Zebrawood . While the thick and sometimes rough edge of

840-466: A silver sixpence). Plectrums crafted from natural animal byproduct are the oldest materials known due to their availability and durability, and are still regularly used by plectriers to craft guitar, bass and mandolin picks. The tonality produced by each type of natural animal material varies greatly, and is further enhanced by the thickness and shaping of each material. Each guitar pick made of wood has its own unique properties and signature sound as

900-584: A smooth or rough texture depending on the grit of sandpaper used. Likewise, factors such as size, shape, and weight have a much more dramatic effect on the overall tone making each individual glass pick sound and feel unique. Due to the specialized tools needed to process glass, there are very few plectriers using this material. Contrary to popular belief, due to their small size and high gauge, glass guitar picks tend to be very durable and more resistant to impact (such as falling) than most stone picks. Some picks have small protrusions to make them easier to keep hold if

960-434: A taut string. Prior to the 1920s most guitar players used thumb and finger picks (used for the banjo or mandolin ) when looking for something to play their guitar with, but with the rise of musician Nick Lucas , the use of a flat "plectrum style guitar pick" became popular. There have been many innovations in the design of the guitar pick. Most of these were born out of the issue of guitar picks slipping and flying out of

1020-402: A technique known as circle picking , where the thumb joint is bent on the downstroke and straightened on the upstroke, causing the tip of the pick to move in a circular pattern, which can allow speed and fluidity. Many rock guitarists use a flourish (called a pick slide or pick scrape) that involves scraping the pick along the length of a round wound string (a round wound string is a string with

1080-437: A wooden pick may create a fair amount of drag at first, wooden picks are generally easy to break in and may even do so quicker than plastic picks. After a couple of hundred strokes, the metal guitar strings wear down the edge and create a smoother pass over the strings. Glass is relatively hard and heavy in comparison to metal or plastic and therefore produces a greater range of tone than these materials. Glass can be polished to

1140-404: Is a Brazilian musician and actor, best known as the vocalist and bassist of Brazilian rock band Titãs . He has also played small but significant roles for the movies. Music entered Mello's life through the cinema. Every week, his father would take him to watch musicals at Metro. The movies' soundtracks joined other influences, like Bossa Nova , or the shows promoted by his mother, Lu Brandão ,

1200-469: Is known for using old credit cards, cut to the correct size and thickness and using them without a tip. The motion of the pick against the string is also a personal choice. George Benson and Dave Mustaine , for example, hold the pick very stiffly between the thumb and index finger, locking the thumb joint and striking with the surface of the pick nearly parallel to the string, for a very positive, articulate, consistent tone. Other guitarists have developed

1260-449: Is turned clock- or counter-clock wise to let the guitar pick glide off of the string easier when using standard thinner flat picks. In fact, most beveled edges start at a pick thickness of 2.0mm and up. Beveled edges make it easier to play without turning the guitar pick in a certain position. Most common mass-manufactured picks are made out of various types of plastic. Most popular plastics include: Picks made from various metals produce

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1320-475: The Titãs do Iê-Iê. At this spectacle Mello would play the role of a presenter who was a mixture of Flavio Cavalcante and Hebe Camargo . His works for the cinema came up again in 1985, at the movie Areias Escaldantes , playing a small role of a sushi chef and a manicure . At the first great break of the band, Mello joined Sérgio Britto , another member of the band, and the drummer Roberta Parisi and formed

1380-533: The actress and producer Ângela Figueiredo  [ pt ] , his two sons Bento (born 1991) and Joaquim (born 1999), and his stepdaughter, Diana Bouth. Guitar pick A guitar pick (American English) is a plectrum used for guitars . Picks are generally made of one uniform material, such as some kind of plastic ( nylon , Delrin , celluloid ), rubber , felt , tortoiseshell , wood , metal , glass , tagua , thermosetting plastic or stone . They are often shaped in an acute isosceles triangle with

1440-523: The album was released) and 2016 (when the play was presented). Vidal considers that the sign in 1986 "provoked the urgency of living a newly-acquired liberty, with the end of the dictatorship, today [2016], it fights to guarantee such conquest, in a world scenery troubled by growing conservative forces. The book was released by publisher Tinta Negra , organized by André Tartarini and includes tales by authors such as Letícia Novaes , Juliana Frank and Renato Lemos , besides an introduction by Bellotto. By

1500-420: The album. The band also promoted a tour in which they performed the entire album respecting the original ordering of tracks. One of these performances was recorded and released as Cabeça Dinossauro ao Vivo 2012 . Performing the album would help define the sound of the band's then next album, Nheengatu . In the next year, the remaining members of the band recorded a video for the title song, using images from

1560-517: The band Kleiderman , where he sang and played the bass. The group presented strong lyrics and aggressive sound, and released an album called Con el Mundo a mis Pies (With the World at my Feet). In 2000, he formed the band S. Futuristmo. Although the objective of the band was only fun, they were invited to perform at Tenda Brasil do Rock 3, in January 2001. At the end of the same year, Mello released

1620-495: The best, is one of the best we made. Only comparable to Õ Blésq Blom and Jesus não Tem Dentes no País dos Banguelas . Despite that, I don't dare point any band that seems influenced by it. In 1997, Bizz magazine elected Cabeça Dinossauro as the best Brazilian pop rock album. In 2007, the Brazilian version of the magazine Rolling Stone elected it as the 19th greatest Brazilian album of all time. In September 2012, it

1680-439: The criticism that we see in the lyrics, the punk, but also the reggae, funk. I think in this album we found the way. Besides, then drummer Charles Gavin considered the troubled moments lived both by the band and by Brazil at that time were also influencing factors: There was the moment of Brazil which was drawing itself much problematic, a military dictatorship still in the process of breaking down , Tancredo's death . The mood

1740-423: The earliest performances of the track, Reis would disguise himself and infiltrate the crowd. Eventually, he would interrupt the show and say that wasn't music; he would then simulate an argument with Antunes and would join the band afterwards to resume the song. "O Quê" was the most demanding track in the album, according to Britto: The arrangement totally changed and here Liminha had a decisive role: he programmed

1800-529: The electronic drums, he suggested the bass line, he played the guitar and had us perform an endless 'jam' over two days until we reached the final result. That opened a new horizon for us and put us in contact with elements we would explore very much in the next years. In a 2016 interview, coproducer Pena Schmidt considered that "the mantric perfection of 'O Quê' paved the way for some three subsequent releases. From there, they graduated in pop production and engineering, ready to take on their own career." The album

1860-438: The fingers start to sweat, which is very common on stage due to the hot lights. Some picks have a high-friction coating to help the player hold on to them. The small perforations in the stainless steel pick serve the same function. Players often have spare picks attached to a microphone stand or slotted in the guitar's pickguard . The equilateral pick can be easier for beginners to hold and use since each corner may be used as

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1920-431: The first standardized plectra and became widely used until the late 19th century. At that point, the shift towards what became the superior plectrum material took place; the outer shell casing of an Atlantic hawksbill sea turtle , which would colloquially be referred to as tortoiseshell. Other alternatives had come and gone, but tortoiseshell provided the best combination of tonal sound and physical flexibility for plucking

1980-507: The firsts partnerships. they would later briefly course linguistics at University of São Paulo , but quit it before they graduated. They even entered a music festival in Rio de Janeiro promoted by Brahma with two songs, although they were not selected. At that point they formed the Trio Mamão, with Tony Bellotto . Also at that time, they helped Serginho Groisman (which would later become

2040-417: The hand of the player. In 1896, a Cincinnati man (Frederick Wahl) affixed two rubber disks to either side of a mandolin pick, which made it the first popular solution to the problem. Over the next two decades more innovations were made, such as corrugating the rounded surface of the pick or drilling a hole through the center to fit the pad of a player's thumb. A more notable improvement was attaching cork to

2100-507: The lyrics were all done. The percussion was performed by Liminha. After several elaborated attempts, he improvised with the walls, the floor and the pillars of the studio, and the "trance" performance was approved by all. "Estado Violência", written by Gavin, was initially offered to his previous band Ira! . Reis helped him structure the song, but not as much as to be credited as co-writer. The lyrics, however, just like "Polícia", were also inspired by his two bandmates' arrest, more especially by

2160-405: The many playing techniques that involve the fingers, such as those found in fingerstyle guitar , slapping , classical guitar , and flamenco guitar , can also yield an extremely broad variety of tones. Most thicker guitar picks have so-called beveled edges. While many guitarists use pick slanting for fast solo riffs, this won't be needed when a pick has beveled edges. With pick slanting, the pick

2220-449: The movie Vai que Dá Certo . Both the movie and the video feature Brazilian actors and humorists Fábio Porchat , Gregório Duvivier , Bruno Mazzeo , Lúcio Mauro Filho , Danton Mello e Natália Lage . In 2021, in celebration of its 35th anniversary, the album was re-released for a third time in CD format and containing only its original tracks. In 2016, celebrating 30 years of the album,

2280-421: The player imprint popular was guitarist Nick Lucas in the early 1930s. Playing guitar with a pick produces a bright sound compared to plucking with the fingertip. Picks also offer a greater contrast in tone across different plucking locations; for example, the difference in brightness between plucking close to the bridge and close to the neck is much greater when using a pick compared to a fingertip. Conversely,

2340-430: The player uses the most economical stroke on each note. For example, if the first note is on the fifth string, and the next note is on the fourth string, the guitarist uses a downstroke on the fifth string, and continue in the same direction to execute a downstroke on the fourth string. Some guitarists learn economy picking intuitively and find it an effort to use alternate picking. Conversely, some guitarists maintain that

2400-493: The power the government has to "judge what you do at your home, with your body". The vocals of "A Face do Destruidor" was recorded over the base played backwards. According to Britto, "when we recorded, we had to think that it would be listened to that way". Some of Bellotto's solos were played with the musician alternating between the guitar pick and a big ring he was using. That way, he could play and simultaneously obtain percussive effects from his instrument. "Homem Primata"

2460-471: The presenter of Altas Horas , a midnight program of Brazilian channel Globo ) on the production of shows of famous Brazilian musicians, like Clementina de Jesus , Jorge Mautner and Luiz Melodia , three of Mello's idols. In 1981, Mello and eight friends founded the band Titãs, at that time called Titãs do Iê-Iê. In 1982, he was one of the presenters of TV Eclipse, a spectacle that parodied programs and featured almost all nine members that would later found

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2520-454: The rebellious statement. There the result balances track by track." Besides all that, there was also an intention by the band to reproduce in studio the energy they believe they had live. The musical material for the album was ready before the band got into the studio. The first track to be recorded was the single " AA UU ". The last one was "O Quê". "O Que" and "Família" were the only songs to have their arrangements significantly changed. It

2580-449: The recording sessions, complying with almost every of our requests." It was one of the first Brazilian rock album covers not to feature a picture of the artist. The title track was conceived during a bus trip. Vocalist and saxophonist Paulo Miklos showed his colleagues a tape with folk music by some Xingus . Over that base, Branco Mello improvised the verses "Cabeça dinossauro/Cabeça dinossauro/Cabeça, cabeça, cabeça dinossauro" and soon

2640-468: The rounded side of the plectrum rather than the pointed end. George Lynch also uses the rounded side of the pick. Stevie Ray Vaughan also played with the rounded edge of the pick, citing the fact that the edge allowed more string attack than the tip. His manic, aggressive picking style would wear through pickguards in short order, and wore a groove in his Fender Stratocaster , Number One, over his years of playing. Noted '80s session guitarist David Persons

2700-495: The same name was filmed based on the novel. In May 2018, he was diagnosed with a tumor in his larynx, which forced him to step down from the band activities for three months. He was expected to be back in time to record the Doze Flores Amarelas DVD. In November 2021, the tumor returned, forcing him to spend 32 days at the hospital following another operation. Mello lives in Rio de Janeiro with his wife,

2760-552: The same year as other important efforts such as Dois ( Legião Urbana ), Vivendo e Não Aprendendo ( Ira! ), Rádio Pirata ao Vivo ( RPM ) and Selvagem? ( Os Paralamas do Sucesso ). In a 2020 interview, Gavin compared the importance of the album for Titãs to that of A Night at the Opera for Queen . In a 2006 article for the Brazilian Rolling Stone , Britto commented: This album, for sure, if not

2820-511: The song on board of it while someone drives it through the center of São Paulo . This ride is alternated with images of the band performing inside a cage, with people watching from outside. The song "Bichos Escrotos" had originally been written in 1982 and was supposed to be part of the band's debut album , but it was censored by the Brazilian military government , and the band was thus unable to release it until Cabeça Dinossauro . Even after

2880-418: The song was finally released, radio airplay was still prohibited, but the radio stations were receiving so many requests that they decided to play the song anyway and face the fines afterwards, because the price was low enough, compared to the profit, to make the disobedience worth it. For the videoclip, the verse "vão se foder" (go fuck yourselves) was replaced with "vocês vão ver" (you will (all) see). During

2940-440: The strings. However, it's a matter of personal preference and many notable musicians use different grips. For example, Eddie Van Halen held the pick between his thumb and middle finger (leaving his first finger free for his tapping technique); James Hetfield , Jeff Hanneman and Steve Morse hold a pick using 3 fingers—thumb, middle and index; Pat Metheny and The Edge also hold their picks with three fingers but play using

3000-420: The time of the album's release, newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo 's Alberto Villas stated that the album was "the great surprise of the year. [...] It's a shocking, punk, angry and very curious album. An album of poison-rock, a scream. An album of surprises." Branco Mello Branco Mello ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɾɐ̃ku ˈmɛlu] ; born Claudio Corrêa de Mello Júnior on March 16, 1962)

3060-402: The two equal corners rounded and the third corner less rounded. They are used to strum chords or to sound individual notes on a guitar. In British English, guitar picks are referred to as plectra , reserving the term pick to identify the difference between this and finger picks. Musicians have used plectra to play stringed instruments for thousands of years. Feather quills were likely

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3120-415: The wide part of the pick, a solution first patented by Richard Carpenter and Thomas Towner of Oakland in 1917. Some of these new designs made picks undesirably expensive. Eventually, pickers realized that all they needed was something to sink their fingerprints into so the pick wouldn't slip, such as a high relief imprinted logo . Celluloid was a material on which this could easily be done. Tony D'Andrea

3180-430: The will by the band to take a heavier direction influenced the music on this album. But they did not suddenly decide to turn punk . The ingredients, according to keyboardist and vocalist Sérgio Britto , were already present in the band. Bellotto says the band already showed signs of this new sound during shows Time showed that this subgenre was in our DNA, which is why 'Cabeça' is a big feature, with all this questioning,

3240-681: The world's international pick market, providing to major businesses such as Gibson , Fender , and Martin . One of the main reasons celluloid was so popular as guitar pick material was that it very closely imitated the sound and flexibility of a tortoise shell guitar pick. The practice of using Hawksbill turtles for their shells would become illegal in 1973 as a provision of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ), forcing musicians to find something else to pick with. Celluloid provided

3300-440: Was elected by the audience of Radio Eldorado FM, of Estadao.com e of Caderno C2+Música (both the latter belong to newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo ) as the seventh best Brazilian album ever. In 2012, in order to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary, Cabeça Dinossauro was re-released, fully remastered and with a bonus disc containing the original demos for the songs, plus a previously unreleased track, "Vai pra Rua", an outtake of

3360-415: Was one of the first people to use celluloid to produce and sell guitar picks. In 1902 he came upon a sidewalk sale offering some sheets of tortoise shell colored cellulose nitrate plastic and dies, and eventually he would discover that the small pieces of celluloid he punched out with the dies were ideal for picking stringed instruments. From the 1920s through the 1950s, D'Andrea Manufacturing would dominate

3420-434: Was promoted by a domestic tour which, until December 1986, has already taken the group to around 40 places. At that time, it was scheduled to happen until April 1987. The stage scenery involved the use of animal skin. In a 2012 interview, guitarist Tony Bellotto revealed he made a bet with vocalist Branco Mello: he would buy him a bottle of Jack Daniel's in case the album sold over 100,000 copies, since he thought it would be

3480-510: Was recorded and mixed in one month. Its demo was recorded in just two days at a studio in the Pompeia neighborhood of São Paulo. The title Cabeça Dinossauro (Head Dinosaur) refers to the duality between rational (head) and primitive (dinosaur). The album's front and back covers were taken from sketches by Leonardo da Vinci : "The Expression a howling Man" and "Grotesque Head", respectively. Both acetates were brought straight outta Louvre by

3540-450: Was released in 1987 as the sixth single by the band and it featured a reworked version of " Polícia " and a dance remix of the same song as B-sides . At first, the music video shows black & white shots of the band walking among a crowd, alternating with images of pre-historical men. Then, in now colorful shots, the band starts tagging a 1950s truck with graffiti (illustrations include the anarchist symbol ) before they start performing

3600-492: Was very delusional, a dystopian scenery. And there was also our moment as a band. We were emerging from "Televisão", our second release, miscomprehended by the label [Warner], which was not well worked. This caused a certain distaste, a certain skepticism towards the music, the career. We came upon the album angry at the industry, the label, everyone. Co-producer Pena Schmidt saw the album as "the moment of truth. Titãs had crisis between surrendering to phonographic perfection or to

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