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El Vez
Olde Man MeX-mas is back! El Vez, the Cross Cultural Caped Crusader & Mexican Elvis w/over 30 years of Christmas shows in his sack, returns w/the El Vez MeX-mas Especial 2024 w/The Centuries. El Vez strips it down this year w/his most Rock-a-billy show ever. The Memphis Mariachis & The Lovely Elvettes are switched out for So-Cal Favs, Sandy, Dylan & Bert – The Centuries. Getting closer to his “Elvis Roots” but still as far out as an Elvis Impersonator can get. Still a costume changing, musical mash-up of the many moods of Christmas but this time w/a stand up bass & travis picking guitars. Heck El Vez will even be playing guitar! A new show for our new upcoming year! Looking forward as we look back…to whatever future & Christmas holds in store. And yes come visit the EL VEZ MEX-mas Merch Store! MeX-mas is a time for giving, give yourself the a treat…the gift that keeps on giving…El Vez MeX-mas Especial 2024 w/The Centuries! Because Elvis Presley has become an international institution that can communicate across national and cultural boundaries, it comes as no surprise that El Vez - the self proclaimed "mexican elvis" - has come along. El Vez, aka Robert Lopez, has been kicking around the L.A. underground music scene for nearly twenty years. He first appeared in the early l.a. punk band The Zeros and then played in Catholic Discipline (which also spawned lesbian folk singer Phranc). While his records are excellent documents of the El Vez phenomenon, the only way to get the full El Vez experience is to see his live shows, which feature his band the Spiders from Memphis and the lovely El Vettes, cleverly named Priscilita, Gladysita, Lisa Maria, and Que Linda Thompson. The best cultural reference points to help describe an El Vez show are the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, a Tom Jones Las Vegas gig, the LSD episode of Dragnet, and Elvis Presley's '68 comeback special. Listening to El Vez is akin to hearing the live-band equivalent of sampling. An audience on any given night can be treated to half a dozen costume changes and might hear bits and pieces of at least 200 songs, not all of them Elvis recordings. For instance, one of his medleys featured "You Ain't Nothing But a Chihuahua" and an instrumental version of the Beastie Boys' "Gratitude," mixed in with the lead guitar riff from Santana's "Black Magic Woman" laid underneath Rod Stewart's "Maggie May," which melded into "En el Barrio" (aka "In the Ghetto") and finished up with the mandolin line that concludes R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion."
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2791255-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2791255-2
