Infectious Grooves The Whisky-A-Go-Go

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Infectious Grooves have been a real favorite of mine since 1991.  I’ve seen them several times over the years in concert and still listen to the albums pretty regularly.  Every one of their albums is great.  Killer bass playing, drumming, funky and meal guitar, funny lyrics…. awesome.

I was at the Drum Channel when Stephen Perkins said they were doing the one-off reunion show at the Orion Festival last year, so it was very  exciting to hear that they were doing a show for the 50th anniversary of The Whisky.   After completing lagging when the show went on sale, it sold out before I could get tickets.   Luckily, I was able to get a ticket for the show.  

The band came on around 11:00  with Sarsippius and friends.   It took a minute to register that I was really seeing this show.   They did tunes mostly off the first two albums. …

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LOS LOBOS THE CANYON CLUB 1/30/2014

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I’ve seen Los Lobos several times over the last 20+ years and they are always an awesome band in concert.
I once saw them play a show with Fishbone and Tom Waits. Another time, they played at the Experience Hendrix show alongside Living Colour, Joe Satriani and others on the bill that ou wouldn’t think of pairing with Los Lobos.

They’ve been a band for around 40 years and they still put on a great show. I’m pretty sure these are all original/ founding members of the band.
Their music is very diverse and they are fantastic musicians.

For this show, they played close to a two hour set that included some folk, ranchero music, a little R&B, with lots of rock and blues. A little accordion here, a few little guitars there, some saxophone…… it was cool.

Their encore included “Cinammon Girl” by Neil Young and “La Bamba” –…

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