Miguel Costas (Vigo, 1961) Prensa answers FARO DE VIGO from the Ibérica group by phone from the village of O Saviñao, near Monforte, where she lives. Last Friday, he alarmed many of his followers and friends with a series of tweets in which he announced he was “on the verge of getting sick” due to a leg infection caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It was learned that Xunta awarded the Castelao Medal to his band Total Loss between 1981 and 1994. And health problems stem from that stage. “I fell while playing with Siniestro Total at a concert in Bilbao,” he explains. There was a storm at the sound control, the equipment slammed into us, and we all left with a splash of milk. I tripped on a cable, fell and crushed my heel bone, which is my heel bone. I continued to feel uncomfortable with age. They did a few leg blocks, a technique to destroy the nerve, and applied radiofrequency to me. Everyone thought the infection came from the heel bone.”
–First, as Bisbal said: how is the “machine”?
– I’m still in recovery. The infection appears to be receding, but has not fully recovered, and it is unknown whether it will multiply. I suddenly got an infection that they didn’t know where it came from. They thought the holes they gave me were caused by someone. I had to wait in the hospital for a week for them to give the culture result and give the appropriate antibiotic to find out which bacteria it was. The infection was already reaching the bone and could have given me sepsis. After the culture they made from me, they discovered what the bacteria was.
– On May 3, at the presentation of the La Recta Festival of the Eighties in Baiona, the other participants remained sitting and looking pale while standing. And he took the stage at the festival.
–I did a few concerts sitting down because my job is to play. I was feeling worse every day and I shouldn’t have done these things but I really didn’t know what I was doing. I’ve now canceled a few concerts I’ve planned and won’t be playing until I’m fully recovered.
– How long was he in the hospital?
–I took antibiotics for two months, then a week until I found the culture, then I continued with antibiotics at home, hospital care at home because I couldn’t move. I also have anemia and fungus all over me. After almost three months of taking antibiotics, you can already imagine it.
“You said you were about to die.” What was the moment of greatest danger?
– At the hospital, they didn’t know what bacteria it was, and they said if it got to the bone, it could cause me to have sepsis, which was almost fatal. They gave me the harshest drugs and finally managed to keep my blood from getting infected.
Were you always conscious or did you use sedatives?
–They gave me morphine fentanyl, which you already knew was 50 times stronger than heroin.oxycodone [otro opioide altamente adictivo]… Everything, because the pain was unbearable. Now that I can’t walk, I’m in the process of being taken to the hospital, to get some treatment and get off the hard meds they gave me.
– How is the treatment in the leg?
–They had to amputate my leg to drain the infection. they put a wick in me [gasa], with excruciating pain, to drain the infection. I have to continue the daily treatments. I go crazy every time they do it to me [ríe], But that’s what it is. It wasn’t me the other day, it was me community manager, Who said people need to learn? I had him change some words like “morirme” to “palmar” so they wouldn’t think it was me. It showed me that people love me very much. If I fully recover, continue.
The tweets were very worrying. When he released the song “I’m a punk” he wrote: “With my dear Bimba Bosé [fallecida en 2017]We’ll see you soon.”
The truth is, it was very serious. At one point the doctor came and said to me, “buff, I don’t know if there’s a solution to this.”
-Last Friday, she posted several of her “no one knows” songs on Twitter, adding that she wanted to “leave a legacy”. Do you think only your stage is valuable in Total Loss?
I feel worthless. I have 28 LPs but people know of three, Sinister’s and very little. Damn… it hurts a little. I don’t have the recognition of a forty-odd career releasing an LP with independent companies, no marketing, no promotion, almost every two years. After Aerolíneas and Sinestro, I released about fifteen albums. I know the coolest thing is instant listening and marketing. Music career is not appreciated in this country, with some exceptions like Miguel Ríos, Raphael or Rosendo. However, there are other composers who do not allow us to promote our work because the priority of the labels is urgent.
-But the artists you mention are also asked by the public for their best-known songs from forty or more years ago…
–I play “Bailaré sobre tu tumba” and “Miña terra galega”, so I put in songs that no one knows if anyone is interested in my recordings with solo and Los Feliz. completely unknown group. It was something I talked to people who managed the networks for me. I’m watching a program on TV, and there’s a show selling its misery and selling more and more records. What I want is recognition of my work. Whoever likes it, ok; and nothing happens to those who don’t. For pleasure, colors.
– What do you think of the Castelao Medal? As a founding member of Sinestro Total, I understand that you have been invited to surrender. [el miércoles 28 de junio]. would you try to come
I was not invited and I have no intention of going. I am not in a position and have not received any offers to attend the event.
And it makes you sad…
–No, I’m just worried about getting better, nothing more. I don’t like it at all, I’ve already suffered enough in the post Total Loss phase because it’s been a constant attack. For example, I gave a concert and I put “Miguel Costas, ex-Sinestro Total”, he canceled me for naming a few. I want to get better and continue playing as much as I can. I live dangerously from music. I’m 62 years old and my mom sometimes asks me “when will you go to work?” [risas]. I don’t want anything, I don’t need a helicopter at home because I wouldn’t have enough money to put gas on it, but I think I’ve had a very respectable career. Musicians admire me more than the public, but it’s a marketing and publicity issue, which is what drives young careers now, which I think is very good.
– Among the calls and messages you receive these days, can you share with us any detail that particularly surprises or impresses you?
–I won’t say anything in particular, but I realized that I have more friends than I thought. Today I still haven’t been able to reply to all the WhatsApp, all the impressions of the people. I realized that people love me and that is the most important thing to me.
– Although your relationship with Siniestro Total seems to have changed direction with the concerts at the WiZink Center in Madrid, many followers were left with the bitter taste of not having a farewell concert in Vigo.
I went as a guest Entering the repertoire, expressing my opinion, etc. I had no choice. When I can go to Vigo, I meet everyone at Sinestro Total for dinner because we love each other so much, except Julián. These are decisions that I simply respect, even if I don’t share them. It doesn’t matter if you go to get a medal the way they gave us at the Vigo City Council.
– Regarding your musical heritage, I don’t know if this is how you view having two sons named Bruno (vocals and guitar) and Yago (drums) in The Riggos. Is it for satisfaction?
– My children play because they love to play. They have jobs and that’s it. I wish they would give more concerts but they do it because they love it. As I started from the very beginning: I never thought I would dedicate myself to this. I did it because I had a good time, and one day I suddenly realized that I was already working on it, I had no choice.