Strange and difficult situation for us, we just arrived from Toulouse and so the jet lag was at it’s maximum level. We came up onto a stage surrounded with water and so the audience was far away spread up in different areas. Some people sitting in front 15 meters away, lots standing on a second floor terraza all around and a crazy beautiful section on our left, squeezed in a separate square area with no seats and that where really getting wild and enthusiastic, dancing and jumping all they could, really feedbacking us so nicely.

       The beginning was a little bit difficult, the “mareo” from jet lag (we started to play at 6am Spanish time, ja, ja…) plus the “lejanía” (distance) of the audience and a really weak sound (93 dB limit by law?) surprised us and made it hard to warm up… but something even worse and really funny happened. Paco had fallen profoundly asleep in his room and we didn’t realize he wasn’t there until we had to start, ha, ha, ha… never ever happened before with no one, ha, ha.. Carlos, the road manager, searching all over the area and hotel couldn’t find him so we had to start with out him, buff!!! guitars are like the spine of our music, so we where really worried but had no choice… so we went on and then he heard in the middle of his dreams in his hotel room just in front of the plaza that the concert was starting , ha,ha, ha… got his pants on and rushed down to the stage and with the sheets still marked on his face came in at the first song after the dancing introduction, ha, ha, ha… we made so much fun to him after the gig. Then the bass amp also stopped working for nearly a whole song…

      Anyway, we slowly warmed up and even though we had a really unusual power limit (93 db, we usually play at 103 and go up at some point to 107), we finally did an elegant beautiful first half (also strange to have a break because we never do it in our concerts, fucks up the magic and freezes up everything again). So when we where going tp start the second half, the fountain got wild and all the water fluded the stage, ha, ha… the spirits where making things difficult, they had to dry the stage before we could come out again… everything unimaginble was happening…but thank’s to our positive latin blood we would just laugh at it all and so we transformed it into a really special show…

     Even though we had this coitus interruptus and all these crazy unusual things going on, the crowd really got into it and we also wormed up enough and took the adrenaline that these shocks and surpises burned into our body, to give a really beautiful concert. The second half got also got into a powerful rumba and ended with our kind of punky Zambra. People came up to us so enthusiastic after the concert, it really was a big thing to play in this venue, in L.A. again, we are really really happy about it andare already looking forward to come back again. Next time at a full power with the magic of an orgasmic full show that will transport everyone through the intensity of the crazy “abanico” of style root fusions that defines our shows.

       Kresten

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