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...country side of bluegrass, used to tour with Jones and Montgomery in the early '60s. Anyway, "Once More" ended up on 1964's "Bluegrass Hootenanny," the second of three albums Melba and George made together (the best tracks of which are collected on this disc). In fact, this ballad has the Osborne Brothers signature all over it, with a banjo and some drum work providing a lilting country-bluegrass feel...
...Fighters' somewhat whimsical setup of two drum kits, five white boxes suspended in the air for reflecting lights and lasers and bouquets of flowers scattered about the stage. The somewhat tepid crowd immediately warmed up when the Foo Fighters burst onstage with "Stacked Actors," a guitar-heavy power ballad bemoaning the superficiality of Los Angeles...
...crowd went wild for "Monkey Wrench," a pop-rage ballad off the band's second album which showcases Grohl's seemingly inhuman ability to scream without tearing his vocal chords. Even on the band's slower, softer songs like the beautifully intricate "Aurora," Grohl couldn't resist pumping up the pace and the volume. Indeed, the only time Grohl stopped slashing at his guitar, he lambasted the British press for publishing rumors of the Foo Fighters' eminent breakup and for comparing them to the constantly troubled Brit-rockers Oasis. Though there was no tension immediately apparent onstage, Grohl's insistence...
...reworkings of previous material and a few new songs, with such wide variations in texture and style that it's almost impossible to pin the group down. Machismo, the accompanying EP, provides perhaps a better picture of Gomez in a nutshell, with its dance-like title track, the darker ballad "Do's and Don't's" and "Touchin' Up," a track almost Caribbean in its coolness. But while there are some absolutely amazing songs on Hotline-such as "Wharf Me" and the first single, a cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better,"-the album as a whole is more for already...
...even those who think they are familiar with the band may be surprised to be reminded what a great ballad singer Cesar Rosas can be; or what a formidable array of guitar players they have on hand, especially David Hidalgo; or how many bases they manage to successfully cover - literally: in addition to the traditional material, their cover versions include songs by Richard Thompson, Johnny Thunders, the Beatles, the Grateful Dead and Doc Pomus, but Los Lobos manage to make them all sound like they're hatched from the same egg. Their outside projects have furthered these diverse interests...