How did you guys go from being Grupo Fantasma to starting Brownout?
Adrian: Well, originally what happened was, Grupo Fantasma used to sound more like Brownout. For a year or two before we played our first gig called Grupo Fantasma, we were already playing parties. We would play at this place called the Manor Road Coffeehouse, which I think is now called El Chile, on Manor Road. We basically would play to a hundred of our friends whenever we could, and that actually sounded like what Brownout sounds like, with a few cumbias thrown in there. But then one day we decided to make that a real band and we called it Grupo Fantasma, and the idea was to focus more on cumbias. So the funk stuff got pushed to the side and we started incorporating more salsa and more Afro-Cuban rhythms. And then a couple of years into Grupo Fantasma, we got kind of burned out on that and decided the best thing for us to do to not get burned out, and not burn out the name Grupo Fantasma, was to put the band back together and to play more of what we used to play. We did Brownout the
