portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Thursday, April 27, 2023

"Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. “DOWN IN HOLLYWOOD’

Where are we?

Why we’re Down In Hollywood! 

a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst Santa Cruz the band intros bit . . . . . . . 


with Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces . . . . . . . now often band intros are nothing if not boring but this is the exception and no mistake . . . . . perhaps the finest Ry Cooder band ever!


George Bohannon - Trombone

Steve Douglas - Saxaphone

Flaco Jimenez - Accordion

Bass Guitar - Jorge Calderón

Drums - Jim Keltner

Percusion - Miguel Cruiz

Piano - Van Dyke Parks

Backing Vocals  - Bobby King [tenor]
                    Terry Evans,  [baritone]
                    Arnold McCuller [tenor]
                    Willie Greene Jnr [bass]

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