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Los Lobos
1999-08-29
Slim's
San Francisco, CA
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
01. intro
02. Everybody Loves a Train
03. You've Got To Lose
04. Colossal Head
05. Run Away With You
06. Wicked Rain
07. When The Circus Comes to Town
08. Maricela
09. Dream In Blue
10. Don't Worry Baby
11. Farmer John
12. Corazon *
13. Let's Say Goodnight
14. Cumbia Raza
15. Volver, Volver
16. Down By the River +
17. Up The Line +
18. She's About A Mover +
Encore:
19. Marie Marie #
20. High Places
Incredibly in 1998, less than a dozen years after their commercial breakthrough with the album By The Light Of The Moon and their cover of La Bamba, Los Lobos were dropped by Warner records. The band, by the way, had not been resting on their laurels. In 1995, they released the critically acclaimed children's album, Papa's Dream. That same year, Los Lobos won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the tune Mariachi Suite. Unfortunately, mixed reviews for the album Colossal Head, released in 1996, led to their dismissal by Warner. In 1999, the band signed with Hollywood Records and released the album, This Time, This soundboard recording captures them on tour in support of that disc, in San Francisco on August 28, 1999, 21 dozen years ago today.
Los Lobos is another band with ties to all 3 of the groups we are featuring this month. After their breakthrough in 1987, Los Lobos served as the lead in band for the Grateful Dead for several shows in 1988 and 1989. They also appeared on the 1991 album Deadicated, performing a cover of Bertha. That tune, as well as West LA Fade Away and Not Fade Away (not a Dead original but a song the band made of centerpiece of their live show) became staples of Los Lobo’s concert set lists. Jerry Garcia was a huge fan of Los Lobos - in fact, a tape circulates of Jerry and Bob Weir playing with them in the parking lot before a show on July 2, 1989 in Foxboro. After Garcia's passing, Los Lobos participated in the 1996 Furthur Festival. Los Lobos have played covers of the Allman Brothers' Don't Keep Me Wondering and One Way Out in concert. They have also sat it with The Teeschi Trucks Band on occasion, usually to play Allman Brothers tunes. Levon Helm of the band was a guest artist on Los Lobos' 1990 album The Neighborhood. A year later, when the band visited Woodstock for the first time, it was Helm who greeted them upon their arrival. In addition, Los Lobos played the last Midnight Ramble concert at Helm's studio in Woodstock in 2012, just a few weeks before the legendary singer and drummer passed away.
2 comments:
Pretty good timing Speedy. Los Lobos played in a park right across from my office yesterday, free show. You would have liked the way it ended. Bertha, followed by La Bamba -> Good Lovin' -> La Bamba. I think Jerry was smiling down on us hearing that medley you heard on 9/18/87! Thanks for posting this today!!
@Alan R - a fee Los Lobos show - what a treat! Los Lobos has been playing that medley for a long time, with Good Lovin sandwiched between la Bamba, as far back as early 1987. In fact, when the Dead did their medley on 9/18/87, which was kind of the inverse. La Bamba sandwiched between part of Good Lovin', I know it had to be inspired by hearing Los Lobos.
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