Leonardo «Cara de Perro» Marquez

Marquez knew both camps: he studied at the Loyola with Henry, and although he was expelled in his second year he never lost the connection. “I introduced them to each other,” he sums up. Out of that crossing was born, in Puerto Ordaz, the “mostrico”: Saxon.

The cabinet, the logo and the concept

They took the concept from Sandy Lane, the miniteca Marquez had seen on television: “look at this thing,” he told them, and they built their own. The cabinet —the booth from which they played— he had made himself and upholstered with his own hands.

The name and the logo came out of the rock that played at those parties: they took them from a record by the British band Saxon. Marquez and his brother cut it out of construction material, painted it, and that is how the mark that is still recognized today was settled. In one of the period photographs, the one painting the emblem is him.

The sound of Saxon

Marquez was the man responsible for the sound, which grew along with the miniteca. According to his testimony, they started out with Peavey equipment and ended up working with Renkus-Heinz and RCF —18-inch subwoofers, scoops, mids and highs—, with amplification that evolved from the Peavey CS800 to the Crowns. The lighting was original Kremesa: rotating spiders, their controls and a smoke machine. The big investment was made by the Gaspar brothers' father, who brought in the Kremesa and the Crowns; and one of the sponsors was Alfredo Gouveia, the owner of a bakery, who answered for whatever got damaged and for the heavy investments.

“Saxon did not die, it mutated”

Over the years, the miniteca went to Caracas and never came back. There, according to Marquez, it did not disappear: it was transformed. “Saxon did not die, it mutated,” he says — into Audio Concept, today one of the most important sound, lighting and video houses in the country, based in Margarita and Caracas and present in Colombia and Panama, headed by Jean Paul Gaspard, one of the founding brothers. The detail matches the company's public profile, which does indeed distribute the RCF brand that Saxon ended up working with.

The final setup of the original Saxon, Marquez recounts, was at Jean Paul's wedding.

The authorship of the concept

Marquez and the original group firmly defend the authorship of what they created: the cabinet, the logo, the sound and the photographs of those years are part of a history they lived. The CMTK Archive documents that authorship here at first hand —who brought the groups together, who put the sound together, where the name came from— as a record of the original Saxon of Puerto Ordaz, without entering into third-party disputes.

Related entries in the CMTK Archive

• · Saxon — the miniteca he helped found and whose sound he put together (entry in “Minitecas: Mobile Power”).
• · Henry Gaspar — co-founder and owner; a Loyola student at the time (entry in “Hidden Figures”).
• · Amílcar Pino — discjockey; he came from the Villa Alianza group that joined Saxon (entry in “One Mixshow, One Name”).

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Credits and sources

• · Direct testimony of Leonardo “Cara de Perro” Marquez to Culturaminiteka.com (series of voice notes, October 2025; transcribed and synthesized by the CMTK Archive) — protagonist source (★★★★): the founding of Saxon through the joining of the Colegio Loyola and Villa Alianza groups; the authorship of the cabinet, of the logo (taken from a record by the band Saxon) and of the sound; the concept inspired by Sandy Lane.
• · Internal cross-reference in the Archive: Amílcar Pino (entry in “One Mixshow, One Name”) and the miniteca “Saxon” (collection “Minitecas: Mobile Power”).
• · External corroboration of the outcome: Audio Concept, C.A. —sound, lighting and video, founded in 1988, based in Los Robles/Porlamar (Isla Margarita) and Caracas, with a presence in Colombia and Panama; CEO Jean Paul Gaspard; distributor of RCF among other brands— (LatamStage; Instagram @audioconcept_ve; business directories). The Saxon→Audio Concept link comes from Marquez's testimony.
• · Under documentary verification: Leonardo Marquez's full name and training, Saxon's exact years of activity, the date of its last performance and the definitive spelling of the group's names.