Colossal Head may be the best Los Lobos album. It’s right up there with How Will the Wolf Survive? Los Lobos is a great live band, too.

I hope some label releases a deluxe version. There was a promo single (see scan below) with three live tracks so maybe there’s a whole recorded concert from then out there. The live tracks were recorded at the Gene Autry Museum and include a cover of “She’s About a Mover” , the 1965 hit by the Sir Douglas Quintet.

I was fortunate to see Sly and the Family Stone twice (in 1969 and again in 1970 or 1971). They were amazing both times. They even made the hockey rink built in to the Spectrum in Philadelphia vibrate. To me, the live shows were even better than the records. The records don’t capture the energy and volume. Try the footage from Woodstock for an idea. By the second show, they could just play extended versions of hit songs for an entire concert. The opening act was Little Sister, which included Sly’s sister, that had two hits.

This has the poster for the 1971 show I saw at the bottom of the page

Brandi Carlile peformed John Prine’s “I Remember Everthing” at the Grammys last night.

“The Intro and the Outro” is a 1967 song by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band in which they introduce people playing on it, some real (and performing), some imaginary, and some real (living and dead) but not on the record. That really is Eric Clapton on ukelele. This is a list with backgrounds of everyone allegedly on the track. This was the first usage of the word “outro” – see the Oxford English Dictionary entry below.

I have seen three of the real people in person:

Eric Clapton 7/5/74 in concert in Pittsburgh

“Legs” Larry Smith 7/5/74 performed before Clapton

Liberace – summer of 1974 when he visited St. Francis Medical Center in Pittsburgh. I worked there picking up trash for a week through Manpower and saw him at a distance.

Oxford English Dict0onary entry for “Outro”

1. After Live Aid in 1985, the Vanity Fair review said that when the Beach Boys sang “Help Me, Rhonda”, they sounded like they were calling out for their nurse.
2. In their review of Bob Dylan’s album Christmas in the Heart, the Washington post writer said ” the sparse “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” sounds like a reason to bolt your doors.” The entire review is fun to read: Review of Bob Dylan’s ‘Christmas in the Heart’ (washingtonpost.com)

Here’s a similar one: