Hey, I just happened to be at the El Vez show last week, so I got a WFMU endorsement by the #1 Mexican Elvis impersonator. And also got a very patriotic WFMU T-shirt picture, to boot. Mr. Vez is finishing up his "El Vez For Prez 2008" tour in the next couple of weeks, and it's a real treat; you get the usual El Vez repertoire ("Blue Suede Shoes" recast as "Huaraches Azules", "Suspicious Minds" rewritten as "Immigration Time"), as well as some interesting new tunes (Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" rewritten with "Mr. Bush" replacing "Mr. Jones"; The Velvet Underground's "Run Run Run" written from the viewpoint of the current Democratic and Republican candidates). The musical references and re-worked tunes come flying faster than the samples at a Girl Talk concert, and the choreography is much better. Check the El Vez Website for tour dates.
Maybe next week you could get your picture taken with Dread Zeppelin.
Posted by: Combo | August 15, 2008 at 08:14 PM
Saw El Vez at a Christmas gig at the Detroit Institute Of Arts about 2 years ago, and he and the band opened the show with a lively cover of Brian Eno's "Needles In The Camel's Eye" (!!!), definitely a personal fave of mine, with holiday lyrics of some sort. Absolutely brilliant.
Posted by: Jim | September 29, 2008 at 07:25 PM