LOS SOUPERMEN – A Texmex Tribute to Doug Sahm & The Texas Tornados

Inspired by the lilting mariachi tones of a couple Ward Hayden & the Outliers nee Girls, Guns and Glory originals, this tribute to Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornados and a few other outlaws reminds of how derivative Texmex music was of the british invasion beat. Coming as contemporaries of the Beatles, Sir Douglas and the Quintet were reputedly the hazy vision of popular music seen through several cases of MD 20-20 in a Texas motel room by producer Heuy Meaux and quickly hit the charts in 1966 with She’s About a Mover amidst the parallel success of the one-hit texmex wonder 96 Tears. The sound came to rest in San Antonio .So now the answer to the question: “Anybody Going to San Antone” is “Everybody’s Going”.  We’ll be filling the Met with the San Antonio sound and along with the rhythms than animated the 60s there is plenty of Texas to go round with the outlaw country sounds of Hank, Merle, Willie blended in.  Featuring the incomparable vocals of Ward Hayden, and a krewe of the most talented contemporary Boston outlaws with Rory Macleod on bass who arranged this project and himself played behind Doug Sahm in Austin when that ‘Cosmic Cowboy’ hopped on stage with virtually every band. With homage to San Antonio’s Los Super Seven, the original ad hoc keepers of the Sahm sound, we swerved in our naming convention Los Soupermen, to announce the super group character of this seasonal outing and to embrace the culinary distinction of our first locus in Westerly, RI, soupy sausage!

PAKT

This event is GENERAL ADMISSION. PAKT with PERCY JONES – bass ALEX SKOLNICK – guitar KENNY GROHOWSKI – drums TIM MOTZER – guitars, electronics   It’s the PAKT time with four extraordinary musicians: Percy Jones (Brand X, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Suzanne Vega), Alex Skolnick (Testament, Alex Skolnick Trio, Metal Allegiance, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Kenny Grohowski (John Zorn, Brand X, Imperial Triumphant, Hipster Assassins), Tim Motzer (Bandit65, Jaki Liebezeit, David Sylvian, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, ORION TANGO).   PAKT recalls the fearless attitude and daring approach that originally defined progressive music: where the magic of the moment always triumphed over preconception. Templates be damned … this music blazes its own path! This is truly exquisite fare, serving as a reminder to aficionados of what initially drew them to this most creative, visionary of genres.

WHITESTAKE

Whitesnake is one of the most iconic bands of all time. Throughout the 1970’s, 80s and 90s Whitesnake made it’s mrk on the MTV generation with his songs like ‘Still of the night’, ‘Is this love’ & ‘Here I go again’. Soaring vocals and blazing guitar riffs launched Whitesnake to success with a Hall of fame induction in 2016. If you are a Gen X’er of even a milenial in America you know the name and music of Whitesnake, as it brings back an error of nostalgia and happiness.   This event is GENERAL ADMISSION & ALL AGES