¡Vamos a guarachar!: Ibae: Guillermo Triana "El Negro"

¡Vamos a guarachar!: Ibae: Guillermo Triana "El Negro"

said Bay Area Latin musical legend John Santos of his passing:

"
Guillermo "Negro" Triana was one of history's greatest rumberos - a true treasure trove of songs, traditions and melodies. I met him in 1990 in Havana while he was singing with the Coro Folklórico Nacional. He had a voice like water from an ancient spring that flowed effortlessly from song to song, making melodic and rhythmic improvisation look and sound extremely easy as he played the claves. I had the honor to work with him and the equally great vocalist Lázaro Rizo, and Octavio Rodriguez, on Pancho Quinto's last project, "Rumba Sin Fronteras" which was recorded in Berkeley, CA, and to hire him and Lázaro to sing several pieces (they were truly a dynamic duo) on the CD "La Mar " by John Santos and Omar Sosa in 2001 in San Francisco. I will always be honored by his friendship and fascinated by his voice and his skill as a rumbero mayor. Que en paz descanse."

Sweet Summer's End

Life is Funny

You Can Go From This:

To This in just a couple decades...


That's Steve Priest of Sweet, the bassist of the glammiest of all the early 70's glam groups...

A band I truly never tire of hearing....

Although the prospect of watching them this weekend has me a little worried.

But since I missed the early daze, I'm gonna have to catch the revamped version about 30 years past their last chart hit...

The original lead singer is dead, and only one original member is in this version, but I will be rocking out to 'em no matter what...

They'll be playing the Santa Cruz Boardwalk on Friday, and I've already got my room booked...

In San Francisco tens of thousands will convene in Golden Gate Park for some $90 a head corporate rock festival thang...and I am splitting to see a band that is long forgotten by most...

Although, they don't look like the old Sweet...they sound close enough

I know because I checked out some live recordings from the recent tour...

and it will have to do I suppose...

Go ahead, hear for yerself...

from an audience recording this spring in Pennsylvania

Steve Priest's

Sweet (live 2009) - Fox On The Run

Compare that to a couple live recordings done in Berlin in 1976

Sweet (live 1976) - Set Me Free

this live one especially cracks me up...

Sweet (live 1976) - (If We Don't F*ck You) Someone Else Will/Blockbuster

and here, just for good measure, one more rockin' classic that in't on the current setlist, but is an olde personal fave and advocates the nocturnal lifestyle I myself favor...

Sweet - Midnite To Daylight