But for fans of Durango, who died this week after singing in bands for about 30 years, will be remembered as one of the great figures of the early punk scene in Miami.
He was able to complete a new album with his group the longer term, Rock City Angels, in which Johnny Depp was a guitarist and composer with Durango.
When Geffen Records sent Angeles rock the city of Memphis to record their major label debut, Depp stayed in Los Angeles to star in 21 Jump Street. But his contributions as a songwriter will remain on that 1988 album, Blues young.
Although the team was more punk and glam hair metal, Rock City Angels was grouped with bands like Hanoi Rocks, Dogs D'Amour. However, the biggest rival of the RCA was Guns N 'Roses, another group of Geffen.
For years, Durango and the team felt it was the reason GNR Young Man Blues was forgotten by the label. (The argument: All the attention and advertising budget was absorbed by Axl and co.) However, the label blamed Durango and his band mates for their wild lifestyles.
Whatever the real reason, Rock City Angels debut album did not gain traction and the band was dropped from Geffen. Finally, Durango left Los Angeles to Memphis, where he met and gigged Bhuddism around town with a variety of groups.
In 2000, Rock City Angels finally released their self-titled album, bought and dropped in the 80's by Geffen to release Young Man Blues. Then the band reunited to record their use once and destroy, launched in 2008.
In an interview last year, Durango, said: "If used once and destroyed my swan song, I could die a happy man. There were no commitments, is a pure statement lyrically and musically and I could not be more proud of it. is the album I always wanted to do. "
In 2010, a compilation of unreleased tracks, including some for what would have been the second RCA album Geffen, left as Midnight Confessions. The band continued as a live unit, regularly playing shows in South Florida.
As recently as last month, Durango and the crew announced that they would have a new album ready by the end of the year, "a piece of rock and roll psychedelic spaghettiwesternesque."
