{"id":4138,"date":"2013-06-09T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T23:37:15","slug":"metal-club-in-el-alto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/metal-club-in-el-alto\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Club in El Alto!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/El-Alto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4141\" alt=\"El Alto\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/El-Alto.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/El-Alto.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/El-Alto-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last night we went up to El Alto to check out the famed Oveja Negra rock bar, see one of our favorite bands and a couple of others. \u00a0As usual, we had a fantastic time. \u00a0We got there a little late, so missed Morbogore, but caught Angaros&#8217; set, which was very good, and Armadura, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolivian Metalheads treated us as honored guests, as we have come to expect. \u00a0El Alto is not a place most Pace\u00f1os will go to for the nightlife. \u00a0Certainly not many diplomats will be found up there after dark (unless on their way to or from the airport). \u00a0And, as Boris Mendez, the lead singer of Armadura said, &#8220;Oveja Negra is the most &#8216;underground&#8217; place you will find in La Paz.&#8221; \u00a0(Though it was up two flights of stairs from the street &#8212; watch your heads.) \u00a0We were greeted by acquaintances and new friends with hugs and offers of drinks (singani and sprite being the concoction most in evidence). \u00a0The club was packed with people and smoke-filled. \u00a0The music was hard rocking and the crowd was <em>very<\/em> into it.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time. \u00a0For me, as for most of the crowd, the highlights were two covers and one original composition of Armadura. \u00a0Their cover of Hijos de Cain (Children of Cain) by Spanish hard rockers Baron Rojo is spectacular. \u00a0Their cover of the Ama sua, ama llulla, ama kella (Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not be lazy) by Bolivian folk greats Kallamarka is one of my very favorite new (even if just to me) songs. \u00a0The conversion from folk song to hard rock is fantastic. \u00a0Finally, their own hit, Premonici\u00f3n, always gets the crowd going.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to record a video of Ama sua, ama llulla, ama kella, and though neither the video nor the audio quality do the concert justice, they do give you a sense of the venue, the band, and the excitement. \u00a0And don&#8217;t miss a highlight at 5:30.<\/p>\n<p>[flv]http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSCN3643-2.flv[\/flv]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last night we went up to El Alto to check out the famed Oveja Negra rock bar, see one of our favorite bands and a couple of others. \u00a0As usual, we had a fantastic time. \u00a0We got there a little late, so missed Morbogore, but caught Angaros&#8217; set, which was very good, and Armadura, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,92,90,126,111,68,114,91],"tags":[187,201,189,194,178,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}