# X, Los Lobos & Elettrodomestico at the Fillmore, November 23, 2018

[Live Nation](https://www.google.com/#q=%22Los%20Lobos%22+%22the%20Fillmore%22) presents [X](http://xtheband.com/), [Los Lobos](http://www.loslobos.org/site/), and [Elettrodomestico](http://www.elettrodomesticoband.com/)  
[the Fillmore](http://www.thefillmore.com/)  
[1805 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94109-7217 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1805+Geary+Blvd,+San+Francisco,+CA+94109-7217+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Friday, November 23, 2018

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## Set One: Elettrodomestico

[8:03 PM lights down, band out]

01. [8:04 PM] _The Next Night_
02. [8:07 PM] _Mail Order Bride_ +
03. [8:11 PM] _Rabbit Stew_
04. [8:16 PM] _Brittle_ (PS)
05. [8:21 PM] _Lost at Sea_
06. [8:26 PM] _Bliss_
07. [8:30 PM] _Aloha_  
[set ends 8:34 PM]

### Performers

* [Joe Gore](http://www.joegore.com/): kala u-bass;
* [Dawn Richardson](https://www.dawnrichardson.com/): drums;
* Pietro Straccia: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
* [Jane Wiedlin](http://janewiedlin.com/): guitar, + percussion, lead and harmony vox.

## Set Two: Los Lobos

[9:01 PM intro by Crack, band out, lights down; Cesar sings lead on all songs tonight]

01. [9:03 PM] _Shakin' Shakin' Shakes_  
[Add Josh Baca: accordion, † percussion]
02. [9:07 PM] _My Baby's Gone_
03. [9:17 PM] _Chuco's Cumbia_ $†
04. [9:26 PM] _Wicked Rain_ %
05. [9:34 PM] _That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore_ %  
[Drop Bugs, SB; LP takes over on drums]
06. [9:47 PM] _Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio_ * »
[SB back]
07. [9:50 PM] _Volver, Volver_ *
08. [9:54 PM] _Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)_  
[Cesar leads a toast to 45 years of Lobos]
09. [10:01 PM] _Papa Was a Rolling Stone_ » _I Can't Understand_ » CR teases _Stairway to Heaven_ »
10. [10:08 PM] _Oye Como Va_ %
11. [10:15 PM] _La Bamba_ + » _Good Love_ % » _La Bamba_  
[set ends 10:21 PM]

### Performers

[Los Lobos](http://www.loslobos.org/)

* Steve Berlin: % keyboards, baritone saxophone, + percussion;
* Enrique ‘Bugs’ Gonzalez (except *): drums;
* Conrad Lozano: bass, harmony vox;
* Louis Perez: guitar, $ jarana, * drums, harmony vox;
* Cesar Rosas: guitar, lead and harmony vox.  

- with special guest -
* Josh Baca: accordion, † percussion, harmony vox.

## Set Three: X

[10:57 PM lights down, Billy teases _Rumble_ while the rest of the band comes out one by one]

01. [10:58 PM] _Beyond and Back_ (EC)
02. [11:01 PM] _In This House That I Call Home_ (JD)
03. [11:05 PM] _Because I Do_ (EC)
04. [11:08 PM] _It's Who You Know_ (JD)
05. [11:10 PM] _Breathless_ (EC)
06. [11:12 PM] _The New World_ (JD)
07. [11:16 PM] _Year One_ (EC)  
[Add 5th guy, Craig Packham on acoustic guitar]
08. [11:18 PM] _Dancing with Tears in My Eyes_ @ (JD)  
[DJ swaps to vibes; CP takes over on drums; BZ: sets his tenor sax up]
09. [11:21 PM] _Come Back to Me_ ν$ (EC)  
[DJ back to trap set, CP on acoustic again]
10. [11:25 PM] _True Love_ @ (JD)  
[Drop CP]
11. [11:28 PM] _The Hungry Wolf_ (JD)
12. [11:33 PM] _The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss_ (EC)  
[DJ swaps to vibes; CP back to take over on drums]
13. [11:38 PM] _The Unheard Music_ (EC)
14. [11:42 PM] _I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts_ $ (JD)  
[drop CP; DJ back to trap set]
15. [11:50 PM] _Los Angeles_ (JD)
16. [11:53 PM] _Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not_ (EC)
17. [11:56 PM] _Nausea_ (EC)
18. [11:59 PM] _Johnny Hit and Run Paulene_ (JD) »
19. [12:02 AM] _Motel Room (In My Bed)_ (EC) »
20. [12:05 AM] _Soul Kitchen_  
[set ends 12:08 AM; all off, back in two; thankful yack from JD]  
   
**Encore**
21. [12:11 AM] _The Once Over Twice_ (EC)
22. [12:14 AM] _Devil Doll_ (JD)  
[show ends 12:17 AM]

### Performers

[X](http://xtheband.com/)

* [D.J. Bonebrake](http://www.djbonebrakemusic.com/): drums, ν vibraphone;
* [Exene Cervenka](http://exenecervenka.net/): lead and harmony vox;
* [John Doe](http://www.theejohndoe.com/): bass, lead and harmony vox;
* [Craig Packham](http://www.craigpackham.com/): @ acoustic guitar, ν drums;
* [Billy Zoom](http://www.billyzoom.com/): guitar, tenor saxophone.

## Notes

After second Thanksgiving dinner earlier tonight, we zipped across town to find tons of parking spots near the Fillmore -- lotta folks must have headed out of town for the holiday! Made things easy for us! Couple blocks walk, wanded, patted down and ticket-scanned, then up a few flights of stairs to the sacred space of the Fillmore. Hard to conceive how much musical history has gone down inside this place!

Headed upstairs to find our buddy John had set aside a pair of seats for us in the balcony. Yay! Good to have a chair these days! I don't mind standing up to dance for the shows ... it's the waiting that gets to me. Things are kinda tight in the Fillmore balconies, but everyone was friendly, and we spent the hour leading up to showtime making chit chat and swapping show tales.

Elettrodomestico opened things up just after 8 PM, and not having performed any pre-show investigation, I wasn't really prepared for them. Sorta punk. Sorta goth/glam. After awhile I recognized drummer [Dawn Richardson](https://www.dawnrichardson.com/) as someone I'd seen [before](http://www.funfolks.net/dw/doku.php?id=2014:2014-06:2014-06-02&s[]=dawn%20richardson), though I couldn't place her at the time. Seemed like the crowd was decently respectful and the band enjoyed themselves. Guess that means we all won!

Next up were Los Lobos. A surprise to find that they weren't headlining the gig tonight, but not totally unreasonable, I guess. Got another surprise to hear that David Hidalgo was taking the night off on account of back problems. Cesar wise-cracked about it partway through the show, "Think he might be jiving?," but despite bringing out Josh Baca of [Los Texmaniacs](http://www.texmaniacs.com/) to play accordion and sing harmony vox, Dave's absence wasn't otherwise addressed. Not sure what to say about it myself -- seems like a strange omission. Anyways, the rest of the band acquited thems admirably, and while the set was a little short, it was certainly fun!

A good chunk of the audience took off after Lobos ended -- seemed like a dumb decision to me, but hey, there's no accounting for personal tastes -- which helped cool things down a bit, as it had grown quite steamy upstairs by the end of the Lobos set. Anyways, the stage crew seemed to need every bit of the 30 minute break in order to rearrange things for X. My guess was that they didn't want to break things down because of the second show on Saturday, so there was an extra layer of complication regarding moving things from front to back and back to front at the same time without mixing anything up.

Just before 11 PM -- about 15 minutes later than expected -- Billy and Craig walked out for a final check, then Billy strapped on his guitar and began to strum _Rumble_. Way cool! Rev it up and go! Although I was a little put out by the sound during the first few songs -- the mix was markedly inferior to what we'd just heard from Lobos -- things eventually improved enough for me to make out the vocals. Hard to explain why the vocals are so important to me for this band. Maybe because the words are more poetic than 99.9% of the other bands out there?

Overally, I was pretty darn happy with the set and the setlist. It was good to hear that a few tunes had been rearranged from their album incarnations -- every time DJ stepped over to play vibes! -- and yet unsurprising for me to hear Ting complain on our way to the car that everything sounded the same. I get that. I'd answer that it's like listening to Philip Glass: on the surface, there's not too much different to catch your ear. But look at it cross-eyed and let yourself swim deeper into the flow and you'll catch all sorts of interesting things going on. Especially with the guitar parts. Billy Zoom is a genius! And John Doe is a rock god! Good to see some of the heroes of your youth still kickin' hard forty years later!

## Photos

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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