I spent yet another day at Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival. And, that means another Eat to the Beat concert at the American Garden Theater in front of the American Adventure. Unfortunately, it also means the last Eat to the Beat concert concert this year. What a bummer!
Performing tonight was Los Lobos. I had never seen Los Lobos perform at Epcot and aside from La Bamba, I really didn’t know a lot about the group and their songs. However, I really enjoyed their performance. They are great musicians, wonderful vocals who can play just about any type of music.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Los Lobos, they are three time Grammy award winners and according to Amazon “is an American band whose (who’s style is a) blend of Mexican influenced rock music”. They first started recording in the 70’s but didn’t have their first hit until 1984. They are still recording albums to this day. In fact they just released an album of Disney songs. The album is titled “Los Lobos Goes Disney”. They sang two of the songs from the album “I Will Go Sailing No More” and “I Wan’na Be Like You”. They did a great job with both songs! Anyway, some of their hit songs are La Bamba and Come On, Let’s Go.
Tip: for those of you who don’t recognize songs by their title (like me) you can go to either YouTube.com and find a video or a web site like Amazon.com and look up the greatest hits album. Amazon will allow you to play a few seconds of each song; just enough to help you recognize (or not) the song.
Los Lobos did change songs in all three sets. I really liked that. And even though I didn’t know most of the songs they performed, I really did enjoy them and that made me want to come back for all of their shows.
The familiar Eat to the Beat concert series sign that’s on the stage.
Here’s a picture of all their guitars before the show started.
Please leave me a comment and tell me if you were there what you thought of the concert or what your memories are of Los Lobos or of previous concerts. I love to get comments.
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Well, that’s all for now. As my good friend says, “See ya real soon””¦.DizneyMike
Thanks!
Los Lobos is one of my favorite bands, I was in Epcot for Sister Hazel and really wished I could have made it back for Los Lobos.
Very excited to learn they made a “Disney” album, can’t wait to check it out.
DizneyMike replies: Meg, you can sample their Disney album at Amazon.com. I think you’ll really like it…Mike
Mike,
You do a great job with these concert reviews.
Is there some way that you could list the song titles of each set? I realize you don’t KNOW all the songs, or that you don’t stay for all of the sets, but is this info available from Disney somewhere?
I would agree that Kiko is a phenomenal album. I saw Los Lobos on their Kiko tour and had front row seats! (well standing is more accurate). What a great band!
Thanks again, Mike. 🙂
DizneyMike replies: Dan, thanks for the comments! At this point the Eat to the Beat concerts are all done. So, this is was my last concert blog. To answer your question, no I don’t know where you could get a list of the songs that each of the groups sang. You may try writing to Disney and make a suggestion that they list the songs on their web site. Thanks again…Mike
Just for those who didn’t know, “La Bamba” and “Come On, Let’s Go” are from the La Bamba soundtrack – Los Lobos did most of the music for the movie, and those two Richie Valens covers were pretty big radio hits after the movie came out. If you want to check out some of their original music, the album Kiko is phenomenal (“Dream in Blue” in particular is a phenomenal song).
Thanks for the article, Mike. I wish I could have seen this one!
DizneyMike replies: Jeff, thanks for the great information. Too bad you couldn’t be here to see them perform, you missed a really good concert….Mike
I saw my first LL show in ’84 at the (then) Ritz Theater in NYC – the show rocked and the band has been a favorite ever since. Thanks for the photos and the review – it’s great that you’re open-minded about the music. Many would (unfortunately) have been put off by the “Mexican” or “Hispanic” stereotype that the less open-minded may have put on the band. I’m glad you enjoyed the show(s)! Check out their recordings, you won’t regret it! Thanks again.
DizneyMike replies: Tom, thanks for the comment! After seeing them perform I can see why you like them so much….Mike