It comes from another place. Then, I’m really into Fenders and Gibsons and some older basses I have. Nunca (feat. It’s not anything like today’s country music. They were badass basses, man. When he would leave the house I’d grab the guitar and try to play. David Hidalgo will be performing at JusticeAid’s Voices to Protect the Vote online May 18th concert in support of Election Protection and the 866-OUR-VOTE coalition hotline.. D avid Hidalgo is an American singer and songwriter born in Los Angeles and best known for being the driving vocal and lead guitar force of the legendary East LA band Los Lobos. Background information; Birth name: David Kent Hidalgo: Born He must have been a kid when he first learned it. One time he and Cesar started playing “Big Boss Man,” and he knew all those little turnarounds and licks. And vice versa. The way we lived was extremely primitive. And having already played together for 10 years was another. Steve Chapman, his guitarist, was my favorite, and [singer] Jack Greene on drums. David: Peter Green was cool. David: There’s a different sound, but it sounds like the same guy playing it. We’ve been through some tough times, obviously, that have really kind of told us, “What is the most important thing here?” It is our friendship. But it’s weird, because my guitar playing was like I was in this vacuum. In the early years, when this band was playing exclusively Mexican music, there was a lot of pressure for us to get more political. David: I love his playing. Conrad: Yeah, mics, two guitars, a piano, bass [laughs]. That sounds like too simple an answer. What exactly is a “Hidalguera”? He used the Bigsby when he bent and shook strings, which gave him his own Hawaiian kind of tone. Louie: My jarana was made by Candelas Guitars in L.A. It’ll blow your mind, if you go down there. We got matching Ben Casey shirts, with the buttons on the side of the neck, and wraparound shades, and we just walked around together. Of the first dozen Alembic instruments made, five were guitars for Jerry. Hidalgo frequently plays musical instruments such as accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requinto jarocho, percussion, drums and guitar as a session musician on other artists' releases. You do everything wrong, but you sound good.” So he took us under his wing, showing us the different strums and instruments. That’s what we found. That’s an example of, as a group, we discovered him. We do love him. Louie: I just play a complete supporting role. He should have one – a Turkish oud.” If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Of course, their many contributions are much greater. I learned to speak English very quickly, because when you’re a kid your brain is still developing, and you adapt. Then Cougar came up, and I really kind of moved out of the drum section. I’ve got to get you an oud, man.” He told me that for years, and about 10 years later he called me up and said, “Hey, I’ve got an oud for you.” It’s a really nice Turkish oud, and he had Rick Turner put a pickup in it. When we learned about the different instruments, we started to notice that you could get all these things at the pawn shops for 30 or 40 bucks. And we never were. But there’s also the most powerful element; from the very beginning we knew there was something special here, and we had to hang on to it. He had the one doing [hums bass-line shuffle], then one playing a little upstroke thing [hums the backbeat], and then Jimmy’s guitar fills and harmonica. On the same song? With three guitars, is it hard to figure out who’s going to play what? So the radio was sacred to us. We didn’t play anything; we just walked around, as a band. It’s the arrangement. And Brian Wilson, when he used to do his stuff with the Beach Boys, he did some amazing things. I think my style comes more out of that now. “Wow, this stuff’s really good!” I have my early-’60s ES-175, factory black, but it wouldn’t work onstage for what we do. That happens writing, and it happens onstage. In the same way that I took up accordion, we took up everything else – as we needed it. In addition to his work with Los Lobos, Hidalgo frequently plays musical instruments such as accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requinto jarocho, percussion, drums and guitar as a … His son, David Hidalgo, Jr. is the current drummer for Social Distortion. Can you do that for me?” After he made it and centered it on the body, I had some original Danelectro [lipstick tube] pickups, and they sound great and are also wide enough to cover the width of strings. David: Yeah. I should have bought Paul McCartney’s Les Paul. But when we came to the United States, the whole encounter with rock and roll was amazing. David: We played at New George’s in San Rafael in ’85 or ’86. I am really a Fender guy but everytime I hear Los Lobos recordings I am blown away by what sounds like a Marshall. It’s like we kicked the door in and looked back; we had to walk back out in the hallway, and there was nobody there. Countless weddings and backyard parties later, they started incorporating more instruments and subgenres, eventually adding drums and going electric. Especially early on when I had my own R&B garage bands; I was the only guitar player, so I had to had to keep it all together and just play rhythm. Those are my favorite to record with; they’re amazing. The records and the live albums – you listen to all that stuff – but there was nothing like seeing him in person. Tired of the cover-band scene in East Los Angeles, David Hidalgo, Conrad Lozano, Louie Perez and Cesar Rosas – four recent graduates of Garfield High in East L.A. – formed Los Lobos in 1973, with the specific intent to play the traditional Mexican folk music of their ancestors. Los Lobos are arguably the most important American band to come out of the ’80s, both musically and sociologically. Then I played guitar; that’s all I did. And everybody’s got to have a Höfner, so I’ve got a Beatle Bass, and my ’68 Gibson EB3, an Ampeg scroll bass, and my first bass – an old brown Teisco. What’s the main equipment you use onstage? But there’s also the folk part – the traditional Mexican folk music. Conrad: I use Lakland basses, and I’ve always used Ampeg amps. I watched the “Ed Sullivan Show” stuff the other day and saw what he was doing; damn, the cat could play. You kind of know what David’s going to do before it happens, or Cesar, or vice-versa, with all of us. Louie: When I was a little kid, my mom always had Mexican radio playing, and country music. The answer: Mike Halby and David Hidalgo's homage to weltanschmerz, Houndog. Four guys from East L.A., but I think we had a huge impact on it, and somehow we have influenced a lot of younger bands. We knew his wife, Nancy Covey, because she used to book McCabe’s. He played a Tele through an old Bassman and got this great sound and a great slide tone, too. David: Cal Worthington. That gave me an excuse to learn mandolin. The Documents are instruments of service and are not a “product” or a “good” as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code. Robert Nighthawk is another favorite, along with Mike Bloomfield and Otis Rush. Though they began as a rockin’ garage band, they quickly took on a new mission: to revitalize Mexican and Chicano folk music for a new generation. You’ve got some influences that guitarists seldom mention, like Muddy Waters’ guitarist, Sammy Lawhorn. American singer-songwriter, guitarist, percusionnist, accordion player born October 6, 1954 in Los Angeles, California. David Hidalgo recently finished recording sessions for a new Bob Dylan album, at Jackson Browne’s Los Angeles studio. David Hidalgo is an american singer and songwriter born in Los Angeles and best known for being the driving vocal and lead guitar force of the legendary East LA band Los Lobos (spanish for “the wolves”). Louie: Guitar, at about 12. Carlos would play for a while, hand it to Jerry, and Jerry would play for a while. It was offered to me, and I passed on it [laughs]. When we first immigrated into the United States, we went straight to East Los Angeles, and my older brother, Pete, got a guitar. Global Thought Leadership Conversation. After 10 years, you’re not going to put out classified ads. I mean, how many bands can reinvent themselves every time they go into the studio? And it depends on whose song it is. They came full circle, back to their rock and roll roots – this time with a fresh direction and strong sense of self. I’ve got real small hands, and the ’60 had the neck that worked for me. Every so often, all the neighbors would get together and have a dance. It took a whole generation for young musicians to not have to carry all that weight, and just make art and incredible music, which they’re doing now. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. I really appreciate him doing that. He showed up with Carlos, and they sat in. I tried different tunings, but most of the time it’s like the top four strings of a guitar, like Nashville tuning: the G strings are octaves; the D is an octave up; and the top two strings are unisons. I think, for me, it happens when we play in a certain environment – where the people are really with us. I’ve got Pro Tools, but we use it kind of as a side thing. And St. George amps. I think when everybody is hitting that spot, we don’t even know what we’re doing at that point, but we all know it’s happening. Definitely a year to remember. Anything he plays, he sounds killer. Dave and I will be talking, and he’ll mention an artist, and it’s like, “Yeah, okay, I dig.” A reference point. Only about five minutes; I said, “I don’t want to take up all your time.” But it was just a cool little conversation. We didn’t have any instruments – we just started a band. I just find a spot in there, and I keep it real simple – even if it’s like doubling Conrad’s part. David: I usually use either a Strat or a Telecaster. This article originally appeared in VG‘s Sept. ’04 issue. It’s a nice marriage of a Marshall and a Fender. Dopaminergic (DA) neurons derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent a renewable and available source of cells useful for understanding development, developing disease models, and stem-cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Later, somebody said “It’s rockabilly.” Then, of course, the Beatles were a big influence, too, and the Stones, and of course a lot of R&B and soul music – Curtis Mayfield, all the Stax stuff with Steve Cropper. Early on, we did a recital at UCLA, and a musician named Art Gerst was there. Louie: To look at it in a historical perspective, I think this band really changed a lot of things: the ways people perceived music from Latin people – in our case, Mexican-American people. I have not seen them live. I’m really glad that somehow they came around, but we were waiting for them for a long time. Then we electrified, and I became the drummer, and we continued on for another 10 years. Louie: No, I knew what a gang was. I had them add a gain stage so I could play them at a lower volume and still have that tone. But that was where I had my first experience with music. Louie: I’m tellin’ ya – don’t get me started. Conrad: Actually it was – when I was about 15 or 16 – because of the Beatles. David Hidalgo. Having an inordinate concentration of talent in one group was a big plus. When we played together, it was like bam! I think he was a big fan of Jesse Ed Davis; it changed his way of playing. Cesar: Sometimes when we do a song that has a certain Latin twist to it, that sort of helps – to go back in your mind. Brian Gearhardt makes them, in Anaheim. Louie: Gibson was nice enough to give me a ’60 reissue Les Paul goldtop. Doesn’t play oud. Then some friends and I started a band. And “Town Hall Party” was filmed in Compton. Conrad: A buddy of mine, Brian Shaw, gave me a Harmony hollowbody bass. It’s like a double tenor guitar. Another guitarist I loved was Jesse Ed Davis. There was a community youth center where music teachers would give free lessons. I loved that. I’ll dig that forever. Then Harrison went back to England to do Let It Be, and he started playing slide with a Tele through a Leslie! I had that single [by the Strangers] and “Rebel Rouser” by Duane, and then some Coasters, and “Purple People Eater.” Surf guitar and stuff like that; just drowned in guitar. The arsenal of stringed instruments the band of multi-instrumentalists has incorporated includes (deep breath): electric and acoustic six- and 12-string guitars, upright and electric basses, baritone guitar, six-string bass, guitarron, jarana, requinto jarocho, violin, steel guitar, bajo sexto and bajo quinto, gut-string guitar, tiple, tres, banjo, huapanguera, cuatro, mandolin, koto guitar, tenor guitar, varrana, vihuela, and a custom-designed “hidalguera.” Then my brother brought home the first Canned Heat album, with Henry Vestine. We had a month-long tour all over Europe, and the first place we got to, in Spain, my Macias got stuck in the luggage turnstile, and it broke. Hidalgo frequently plays musical instruments such as accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requinto jarocho, percussion, drums and guitar as a session musician on other artists' releases. That’s when we got to meet Jerry for the first time. It’s a cliché, but it’s true; you just feed off your audience. When was the last time you saw a “Play an accordion, go to jail” bumper sticker? Cesar got a bajo sexto and wanted to play some of the polkas. So when I started playing guitar again, it’s back like in 1972. David Hidalgo is perhaps best known as the guitarist and singer of the Grammy-winning band Los Lobos, the East LA based group he co-founded with Louie Perez. They make one out of one block of wood, the original way. David: We tried doing some of the stuff using an echo harmonica – a double-reed harmonica, almost like an accordion – and kind of fake it that way. I wore these brand-new jeans, a neatly pressed Army shirt, and my little Catholic boy’s haircut – and one string of beads. And I never really had a real cool pickup sound. It’s something we don’t even have to summon; it just happens. The greatest fucking musician in the world”. That was his career highlight, he was able, so swiftly, to nail it all right down to just that. He saw me play the requinto jarocho, with the four strings that I play with the long pick, and he said, “That’s the same wrist action and posture that you use on the oud. He formed as well a side project band called Houndog. And just so many great, soulful black R&B guitarists who weren’t even mentioned on the records. At home I had a bunch of guitar bodies lying around, so I took this Tele body over to my friend, Bill Antel, and said, “Here’s my traditional Macias, and here’s a Tele body. Then, with Jimi Hendrix, his soul contribution, he was kind of trying to do like a Curtis Mayfield kind of thing. That’s another heavy influence in our music. We owe a lot to him. But it took a long time. With no new disc to promote for this summer's cross-country jaunt, Los Lobos has chosen to showcase the talents of David Hidalgo. In the middle of the show, [Grateful Dead roadie] Steve Parrish invited me back there, so I sat down with Jerry and talked about Buck Owens and stuff. David: I use the reissues on the records, too, but the old guitars make you play a certain way, you know? Because there’s plenty of information going on. David: When ZZ Top was first happening, we were doing folk music, so I didn’t pay much attention. You hit a certain point where something else takes over, and you just get out of the way. So it’s going to be a chock-full Year Of Los Lobos.” All the mothers would make food, and they’d hire a group. And it all paid off; I’ve been playing it for years. I’ve been collecting since I was a teenager. 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