Los Lobos at The Filmore, Chapter 20

Perdiccas

San Francisco

Sunday 25 November 2018

Los Lobos are now in their 45th year as a band.

David Hidalgo missed Friday night with a bad back, so Friday was the Cesar Rosas show. They flew in accordion maestro Josh Baca from Texas to fill out the band and enable the Tex-Mex part of the show.

Hidalgo was back for Saturday - see photo - but Josh Baca stayed on, so it was an even more eclectic mix.

Talking to their roadie after the gig, Hidalgo has only missed six shows ever. Unbelievably, I saw one of them, in Austin this year. 

They had been nervous before Friday, unsure as to how a set of only Cesar’s blues rockers would go down. Bit of a cliche, but they pulled it off.

Saturday was normal Los Lobos, ending with a 15 minute “Bertha” and encore with the Blasters song “Marie Marie”.

These shows were a double header with L.A. punk band X, now in their 40th year. X were very loud.

Roll on next year...

Ah, but there's more...

Perdiccas (attired, you'll notice, in Ravenscroft shirt) with Conrad Lozano

Your intrepid reporter just ran into (Los Lobos bass player) Conrad Lozano on Market Street. Really nice guy. Couldn’t resist. Anyway the 20 year Fillmore pilgrimage makes a nice story.