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I caught the Luminarios with Mozart's Sister last week. Okay, it was supposed to be Mozart's Sister opening for the Luminarios, but Rich Hopkins and crew asked that the order be switched.

In any event, the Hut was rather sparsely populated. It was a Wednesday night, after all.

Some Luminarios shows can be iffy, with Hopkins gathering a few friends (often hours before the show) and playing whatever covers that the random aggregation can play together. In most cases, his confederates are like-minded so they can get away with it. This show was done as preperation for a European Tour, so it was a stable line-up that had rehearsed and played together before.

This line-up didn't include Anna Rosales, who I don't think will be in the group since she quit the Sidewinders. It's too bad actually, she was a good bass player and a nice vocalist. The band did, however, include guitarist Mark Zubia, who has been a fixture in the scene in Tempe for sometime.

There were a few trip ups here and there, at one point, Rich had to signal the drummer to stop durring a quiet part of a song. But it looks like the guys will be ready to tour. They will be playing Germany and Croatia. For some reason, those guys out there love Tucson bands. They have taste.

Mozart's Sister went on kinda late...too late for people like me to be up when we have to go to work the next day. But, it's the price we must pay to support local music. I think I see these guys too much. I'm seeing them more often than they write new songs. Soon, I'll be singing along and irritating them like I do with the Sidewinders.

A couple of their shows have been marred by poor sound, and this was one of them. Nothing as severe as the first of their shows that I caught at Heart V last year, though. Amy Muñoz's bass ended up being the lead instrument since Phil Hemmo's guitar was burried so far down in the mix. It probably didn't help that I was sitting fourty feet away though in that lonely, hollowed out space. The subdued sound didn't even rouse the populace when the normally crowd pleasing "(I Didn't Know Your Girl Was a) Crack Whore" came up.

They'll be at Plush on the 8th, which will be a much better space for them.


Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.