Los Lobos
Bing Concert Hall
Stanford University
327 Lasuen St, Palo Alto, CA
9 PM, Saturday, January 12, 2013

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[9:03 PM lights down, introduction by ?]

1. Canto Veracruz     without Steve or Bugs
2. El Cascabél     add Bugs
3. La Pistola y el Corazón     add Steve
4. Los Ojos de Pancha
5. [Cesar teases us with some Chuck Berry; Happy Birthday to Bugs]
6. Saint Behind the Glass
7. Malaqúe
8. La Feria de las Flores     without Steve or Bugs
9. West L.A. Fadeaway
10. Chucho's Cumbia
11. I Got Loaded (with Lovelight tease)
    [set ends 9:55 PM]
     
    Encore
12. Mas y Mas
    [show ends 10:03 PM]

• Steve Berlin: keyboards, saxophones, flute, percussion;
• Enrique ‘Bugs’ Gonzalez: drums;
• David Hidalgo: guitar, acoustic guitar, lead and harmony vox, accordion, hidalguerra, requinto guitar, percussion;
• Conrad Lozano: guitarrón mexicano, bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Louis Perez: guitar, lead and harmony vox, jarana, drums;
• Cesar Rosas: guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, percussion, lead and harmony vox.

What an awkward introduction to the new hall!

Although the dust appears to have settled, the staff has obviously not yet had time to get used to the new venue. Misdirected more than once, it was a frustrating experience just finding our seats (dead center, in the terrace behind the stage). Moreover, the sound was echoey and oddly reverberant – as if the PA was not being used at a high enough level, so that the room sound dominated, rather than the direct sound emanating from the band. Hopefully they'll figure out how to dial things on over the course of the season!

To continue complaining, the set was also pretty darn short – exactly an hour from start to finish.

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