Las Cafeteras live performance and community discussion on Piñata Hour

The turn of the rat, the turn of the rat No, no, no, no, no, no, no They better confess They better confess It's not much mess No, I see them doing Yeah, they better confess The turn of the rat The turn of the rat guitar solo solo Thank you. Can you hear yourself? Hello? Hello? I can hear you. Can you hear yourself? Hello? Hello? Hello? I do not hear myself. There we go. It's just loose. Hello? That's what they called you in middle school. That's so scary. Oh. I guess we're live. All right. Hello, cafeteras. What's going on? That was a little trivia of... Don Cornelius. He passed away today. Rest in power. Sad news. Rest in power, homie. Soul train. Soul train. This is Lee, your host. Welcome to another episode here of La Piñata Hour. Or The Piñata Hour. Is that how you say it? Or Piñata Hour. Huh? I don't know. I don't even know how to say it anymore. That's all good. It doesn't matter. Yeah. You guys can say piñata, right? Huh? Say piñata. Piñata? Piñata? I like that one. Piñata. That's pretty cool. Let's pack it open. Okay. Over here at The Piñata Hour podcast today, we have Las Cafeteras. I want to thank you for coming down. Shut up. Shut up. So we got Daniel. And then what was your name again? Hector. Hector. The Protector. Yeah. And also we have the two girls here. Annette. Annette. And Denise. All right. You can get the microphone a little bit closer to you. Okay. Sorry. It's... Look. Don't be scared. All right. Yeah. Wow. It's a boom mic. And also we have Travis here. That's my friend here. What up? He brought us some... What is this? Bud Light Platinum. Classy. Introduced to me by Club Brando. This is a classic. Club Brando. Nice. We're supposed to have Frank LePaul today here, but we just want to give him a shout out. He had a family emergency and he needed to go. You guys know who Frank is, right? Yeah. Yeah. The homeboy. Yeah. He's always... The mucho home. He's always spending it mucho. Yeah. He's one of the DJs. Resident DJs there. So we have like cafeteras in the house. What's up? I want to thank you guys for coming down. Another man. Thank you for inviting us, homie. No, no, no. You guys been hitting everywhere. I saw LA Record. You know, you guys sent me also like a couple clippings on it. I was like, I saw those. That was cute, no? Yeah. They were pretty cool. They were pretty cool. Thanks, bro. Everybody looking good. So what's up with the rest? With the rest? So we got like two more. Oh, jeez. There's three more cats in the band. Okay. One is in intensive surgery. The other one is stuck in a tornado. And the third is... Diana Jones. Making a sandwich. Making a sandwich. Yeah, I agree. No, my brother's part of the grupo también. He's actually getting his master's. So he has class tonight. Oh, wow. I was trying to get muy, muy... You're trying to get him to drop out, but he... Master on Jaroncho, too? No, for He Wishes. That was too pocho. He's going to Long Beach State. He's getting his master's. Master's in education, man. Wow. He's trying to handle that business. Long Beach State alumni right here. Oh, right here. Yeah. You're a 49er? Yeah. No, you're not. No, seriously. I graduated in 2006. Oh, can I hold him, too? English degree. Cool. 2005. I want to be part of it. I used to go up to the 49er bar in class all the time and just get hammered. And then our English professors encouraged it. They'd be like, yeah, don't worry. You're more creative when you're drunk. Bring your beer back to class. It's totally cool. Yeah, that's what we're doing right now. We're trying to get there. Long Beach pride, man. I used to sit in the yard by the coffee shop. I'd sit in the yard by the coffee shop. I'd go grab one of the plastic chairs with a six pack from the 7-Eleven down at the bottom. And I'd freaking go up and just get it. Right next door, they got this boba spot, dude. I don't know. Long Beach. I don't remember that. You missed out, man. I did. You wasted your years. Long Beach is in the house, I guess. 49ers. Shit. So we're doing a live here at Skid Row Studios in downtown LA where parking is big. Yes, it is. Sorry. Five bucks. Let him. I'm going to park it for you. Dude. Does he? I don't think so. He's a little bit of a dick. I still have to park my phone. But whatever. Loading only, dog. After 630, that's a secret. Oops. Solas Cafeteras. What's up, guys? What's going on, man? I see you brought a cajon there. What do you call that? What do you call a wooden box? It's a marimbol. Marimbol? Yeah. So I brought it because I thought we were going to play, but I didn't want to. But I didn't want to. But I didn't want to. I didn't want to leave it in the car, and we have rehearsal after this. Oh. What are you guys rehearsing? Are they rehearsing somewhere near? No. Yeah. It's right here in Little Tokyo. The homeboy, Kano, who's not here. Oh. I want everybody to know Kano couldn't make it here. But he's actually an engineer. Kano? Kanito. Well, for those who are listening to the show and want to talk shit about Kano, go ahead and call 1-800-893-9562. 1-800-893-9562. There it is, dude. So that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. Kano, he's got a little spot in Little Tokyo in this big warehouse, and only two people work in this huge warehouse, and so there's all these empty office spaces. Right. So we basically squat and take over one of the rooms, and hopefully the owner's not listening. I know, right? I'm like, no. TMI fault. He's sitting somewhere like, mother fucker. Mother fucker. Look at these guys. Giving out all the secrets tonight, huh? Yeah. Jose's getting evicted right now. I know. Dude, we're going to have to do this. We're going to do a little protest to get him back. Hey, listen. What we're going to do right now, we're going to play maybe one song of you guys, right? So we're going to introduce you like that. We're going to play your music first. What we got here. Give me the paper. Hey, man. I was looking at that. Okay, we got here. I circled La Bamba. He circled La Bamba. But you want to do the Café Dos? Oh, yeah. Which one do you want to go first? We'll do Café. Well, which one? The Café Dos is the Cat Williams one? No, no, no. Let's say that one. Oh, yeah. No, that's Café con Pan. Café con Pan is Café con Pan. Oh, that sounds good right now, man. Yeah. I know. I know. Give me two of those. Can we get delivery? No, dude. Everybody wants to drink the cat. They can deliver something else. One time. There's plenty of beer in the fridge. No, the Café con Pan, it's really a powerful song. And some people wrote the lyrics. Number one. Number one, man. Number one, make it fun. No, it's number. It's number. Number four, bro. El Café con Pan. Where's Café Dos then? Just pick one. Pick one down. All right. I'm a little confused. Bailen, bailen, bailen, bailen, mujeres de luna. Bailen, bailen, bailen, bailen, que la vida es una. Bailen, bailen, bailen, bailen, mujeres de tierra. Bailen, bailen, bailen, bailen, que la vida es una. Con las cafeteras. Bailen, bailen, bailen, bailen, que la vida es una. Yo le canto a las mujeres, mis hermanas compañeras. Yo les canto. Con las mujeres, mis hermanas compañeras. Somos fuertes luchadoras, brillando con las estrellas. Somos fuertes luchadoras, brillando con las estrellas. Bailen, bailen, mujeres de luna. Bailen, bailen, mujeres de luna. Bailen, bailen, que la vida es una. Bailen, bailen, que la vida es una. Bailen, bailen, Coffee with bread, coffee with bread, coffee with bread, coffee with bread, coffee with bread, coffee with bread. Good Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What a beautiful song. Are we talking about the instruments here? Yeah, man. And who plays cajon? Canito, who didn't want to show up. Oh, okay. So yeah, you can call 1-800-893-9562. Yeah, Cano. He's probably running a marathon right now. So how do you guys met? How do you guys came together? That's for the family therapist, too. Really? Hector is my nephew. What's up, dog? David, who's in the band, is my nephew. How old are you? I'm not going to tell you. How old are you, Lee? Can I write it down? Oh, I'm 40. Can we write it down and maybe guess? No, never. Never. You should have people call in and guess your age. You never ask a lady's age. Thank you. That's my idea. Come on. That's my idea. You want to get kicked in the nose? And don't call in. Yeah. Don't call in. You can still call in now. Hey, I want to give a shout out to, you got a couple of listeners here. We got Sal Valdez. He's listening to the show right now. Sal Valdez. Hold on there, man. And also we got Olivia Pina. Or Pina. You better get that right, dude. That's my prima. What's up, prima? Oh, we got la prima. Llamando también. Nice. Hold on there. All right. So how you guys came together? You guys met. Okay. So you were telling me. Oh, and then you all can. End it up. Well, I went to school with Jose Cano. We actually met when we were in Mecha, Cal State LA. Right. In the early 2000s. And I think we met Daniel while he was doing some organizing work with the South Central Farm. Right. We started learning the music at a community center that we also, do a lot of projects at called the Eastside Cafe. Our friend Angela started holding classes there. And so a lot of us, we were already friends, families, did work together. And Leah later joined us when she moved back from Florida when she was doing school there. So we all do community work together. We organize. We have different focuses, but we ultimately come together for, you know, greater causes. So the Eastside Cafe was able to hold that space for us. And that's really how we all met. We had a lot. A lot more folks that also play the music. But we evolved into into this project called Las Cafeteras. So. Why Las Cafeteras? Well, I think, you know, and let me. Denise can really, I mean, you could tell that story. All right. I'm doing that right now. Well, you know, as I was saying, I was talking about the Eastside Cafe. We didn't really have a name. First off, it was a class. It was a bunch of people playing. But there's fandangos, you know, they're community gatherings where you play son jarocho music and different spaces. There's a space in Santana where they also hold classes. And Son del Centro is a group that really mentored us in learning the music. And so whenever we would go to fandangos or different spaces, they would call us the cafeteros because we came from the Eastside Cafe. And we, you know. Yeah. So basically, you know, the people named us basically. And so that we kept that name just to honor also the space of the Eastside Cafe. And then since then, how are you guys looking at it? Like, are you getting your purpose out of it? Because I know you guys are, you guys coming from, you guys made out different groups and they're all like kind of political maybe, right? Yeah. I mean, the Eastside Cafe is, you know, Denise is one of the founders of the Eastside Cafe. It's not really a cafe. You know, it doesn't sell coffee or anything. Más de nada, it's a space. But even before these, like, you know, 10 years ago, Eastside Cafe is a state of mind. It's a place, you know, where people would kind of get together and they would talk about their dreams. They would talk about what they would like to see in their community. And these folks got together and said, you know what, why don't we develop a space where we can actually create these projects and people can move towards autonomy? And it was inspired by the Zapatistas, you know, who were organizing and working for self-determination, for autonomy, to do what they wanted to do in their neighborhoods. Right. And so that's where the Eastside Cafe came from. So it's a Zapatista inspired space in El Sereno. And, you know, that sprouted in the early 2000s. Denise, along with Gano, were part of the founding members. Is that place still there? Yeah. Yeah. Big time. We actually, if you go to our Las Cafeteras Facebook, you'll see we actually just did a huge, beautiful mural. We're still working on it with Miquelan Murals, Raul Gonzalez. And we had this big community process this last Saturday. We had like over 50 people come to the Eastside Cafe. Mothers, kids, and like started helping us paint the mural. So when we go out and talk about the Eastside Cafe, when we play music, when we speak, we're talking about a world that we want to see, a world that we believe could be better. And we use music to tell the story, our stories, the stories of like L.A. and Mexico and our parents and stuff like that. You know, so we're we are. Were you guys really involved in community? Yeah, man. And also on the music aspect, I think that's one way of exposing and people finding out more about you guys. Which is something attractive, you know, really is pretty cool. And besides that, you guys, you guys, all of you guys are from East L.A. or? No, no, no. I'm from the San Gabriel Valley. Born and born in Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park. Raised. I was born there too. Girl, we didn't even know what time it was. We were separated at birth. We just found out. We've been playing so long and then like, oh yeah. Anybody born in Fontana here? Fontana? Yeah. No. No. Cricket? Fontana? Fontana. Kaiser Hospital. And then the homeboy, Caneto, that was from Oxnard. So he was born up there. And then. It's rich community. Oh, thanks. Tell it to his neighbors. I'm just trying to agree. Oxnard. What part of Oxnard, I guess? I don't even know. What part of San Gabriel do you live? Well, I live in Boyle Heights now, but I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. So mainly I grew up like in West Covina, Arcadia and San Gabriel, like South San Gabriel. And then, uh, Annette all over LA, dude. And out of LA, you know? Yeah. What are you doing? What are you doing over there? Are you doing homework or something? No, I should be. But I'm posting. I'm letting, you know, people know what we're doing and what they should be doing, which is calling in. All right. The board. Yeah. 1-800-893-9562. And tambien, you know, we just play cafe con pan and it's a sign that, you know, we feel it's, um, you know, the layer when we first started, we were like, oh, we're going to do this. We're going to do this. We're going to do this. We're going to do this. We're going to do this. And then we, like the spirit when we started, like playing the song, we always felt it was a really dope song that, that embodied a lot of female energy. And so, you know, something that I know Annette brought up earlier, you want to bring it up. We want to give a shout out too, if we could. Yeah. We wanted to give a shout out to the link. And I'm from Lincoln Heights community. I walked today and it's in, um, to remember Brianna Guzman and Michelle Lozano that went, um, were murdered. And Brianna was recently found and she was murdered from Lincoln Heights. And I'm from Lincoln. Like I was, I was one of the classes I grew up in Lincoln Heights. And so, you know, it hit close to home. And so they're out there right now walking and kind of taking back the streets and taking back the night and kind of putting a message out there. And there's, I know there's a lot of students from Lincoln Heights. My love the fact that people just said, you know what, we can't stay home and be in fear. And some homegirl basically organized through Facebook and said, you know what, let's march on Wednesday. Let's say we're not afraid to be on the streets. Let's do it. And then it just became viral. Well, has something been going on for a while? Well, a homegirl, I mean, right now, recently, this woman, you know. It's a connected case. Yeah, it's a connected case. There might be, you know. Would you say that there's not enough police work or what? It's just, I mean, when something like that happens, it happens in any neighborhood. It takes a bit to link these things together, you know. It's either connected or it's not. You know, and so it's double the time to do that. I just saw an article about cops not being too many in the East Lowe's because due to money issues. There's not enough money for our budget. Well done. I mean, I think when you're talking about having safe spaces and particularly in communities of color, having a bigger budget. Presence of, you know, of police doesn't necessarily mean safe communities for us, at least historically. I think what this does call attention to is that young women are, you know, are targets for dangerous situations. And I think as women, we walk, you know, our daily lives knowing that, you know, walking very briskly, not being alone at night and stuff like that. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. going to be afraid of our communities we're not going to leave our communities because we have love here and we have everything we need in our communities however we're also not going to tolerate danger and we're not going to tolerate people feeling scared um especially young women um this young woman brianna just went to get cough medicine and then and didn't return um so you know she has babies at home she has family at home and and how how many other people or women do they haven't caught they haven't caught nobody right no no and also i know that that there's reports of some of a white van you know people in a white van um trying to kidnap somebody else like on morango um in i think close to the general hospital and you know i believe her father was able to take her out of the van and so you know people are paying attention now which i think is an important part is that you always have to understand like your surroundings are always safe but also say something if you see something say something and safety you know happens when we're all there for each other and that's something that we really um i think as a collective we want to um really honor you know that kind of messages that we're brothers and sisters and we have to is that what you guys all all of you guys agree with like uh it's a group send a message besides the music oh it's like yes my name is daniel french and i approve that message you like i think right i think um like i'm being really inspired by folks of the past right more than anything man like i think for me i'm not gonna speak for cafetanas for you fools you fools can speak for yourselves but uh but for me like i i i sing to exist and i exist to sing in the same way i exist to talk and i talk to exist right like for me the message is much greater than even the music what do you play in the back i don't play dog i just stand on the sidelines i dance i do percussion when the percussionists aren't there and uh and that's and that's what i do man but like you know outside of that like bob dylan was doing that in the 60s you know like nina simone was doing that in the 50s you know what i was watching bob dylan i was watching a documentary of him not too long ago and i couldn't understand that dude i don't know what was wrong with me i was watching him i was like what all right i don't get him yeah i don't kind of know what's wrong with me i don't know what's wrong with me i don't know what's wrong with me his his music you know he was like changing he was constantly changing right that's what i got in the first few minutes of the night in the morning personality constantly changing but anyway so yeah okay so bob dylan nice nice but i mean then you got rage right then you have rage did that stuff you know oh right against the machine yeah yeah is that chair or is that they have a that's me dude that's me right there on the wall that's me dude that's me right there on the wall like that that's like that's a combination between myself henry and lee well hey on that i'm gonna puke that's a bearded beast no that's uh that's axel rocha yeah he was in make a match at two right he was involved in i heard he was the founding he was a what i heard he found him really wow i know he was really political involved i like the message he sends come and play come and play right about the movement forget about the movement i was like okay i get it don't read the signs on the freeway don't text no amber alerts yeah no amber alerts speaking of uh a metro we got we just got invited to the chicano nationals the metro nationals conference out in phoenix so we're we're excited to bring that that message you know a lot is going on in arizona let's explain to our anglo friends what mecha means do you know what mecha is? si ya ves ya ves hey! what's on what's mecha? i'm irish oh irish irish that was fighting the irish army like uh when they came down they brought yeah they're hardcore to fight against the mexicans don't with them independence i don't want i don't want to fight in the mexicans no but the irish joined the mexican army that's what i'm talking about right there so we have a saying in the in the band when we're rehearsing and we start to talk too much we say let's talk more rock i thought i said let's talk shut up Chuchumbe. It's an old traditional song that we kind of reworked a little bit. That's song number five? Yeah, song five. One, two, three, four, five on the list. Alright. Again, this is another world... I need the name of that song. Chuchumbe is in track number five. Yeah, it's the world premiere. You're hearing it for the first time on the air here at Skid Row Studios. Piñata Hour. Piñata Hour. Piñata Hour. Piñata Hour. Piñata Hour. Piñata Hour. Piñata Hour. Piñata Hour. And we're back here at Piñata Hour. We're doing this live podcast. We're on iTunes. And also on Stitcher. If you guys want to keep us, you can keep Piñata Hour on the go. Just put it on your phone. We have all the applications. You just go to www.skirastudios.com. Dot what? Professional DIY. We want to give shout-outs to Oscar Gonzalez. He's listening too right now. He said, oh, finally you guys are playing El Chuchumbe. He said he likes us on. Oh, nice. Shout-out. Oscar, if you really like this song, if you really like Los Cafeteras, please call 1-800-893-3255. 9-5-6-2. We want to hear your lovely voice. 1-800-9-5-6-2. And also Natalie Galindo Gallardo. What's up, prima? Double G. That's my prima out in Paris, California. I love you, prima. Nice. I don't even think that place exists. Where is that? It's like you go. It's like, have you ever seen like the. Where? It's like where the world ends. It's just past that. Yeah, like where Columbus. Sunset Boulevard. Columbus' ship fell. Yeah, right past there. That's where the world meets. Nice. Nice. That's where the sun set by a cinema. Like that? Right next to L.C.? Yeah, that's what it says. It says right there on the sign. Fucking funny. Oh, no, that's the crosswords. Also, we have my friend Twiddle. He just walked in. He's over there hanging on the piñata lounge. Right there hanging out. Are you going to roll the joint? It's already done. What? You didn't let me get on that? Love potion number nine. Hey, you guys playing? We're playing a couple gigs. I know you guys playing the Echo. Yeah, we'd like to invite folks out. We're having this really good Valentine. The day after Valentine's is called Love and Liberation. Who doesn't want love? Who doesn't want liberation? Come on now. It's Wednesday the 15th over at the Echo. It's part of Mucho Music's first event of 2012. Shout outs to Ricky and the whole Mucho fam. Shout outs to Irene Diaz. She's going to be debuting at Mucho that night. So definitely check her out. She's one of the baddest singer songwriters in town. Yeah, she's going to be there. Lee and I will be there. Yeah, I'm going to be there. I got to be there. I'm going to take a $9 cab ride and get fucked up and watch you guys. Hey, Jeremy, is this on? I want to play a little song here from here. I don't know if you can hear it. Oh, from the homegirl? Yeah. So people get familiar with what's going on. Let's do it here. This is Irene Diaz. What a lovely voice. She's a beautiful person. First time you guys playing with her? Second time. Second time. But she's a friend of ours, too. She's done some work at the Iset Cafe with us. She works at the Trader Joe's in South Pasadena. Thank you for the free snacks. I appreciate them. Coffee on my mind. Chemicals and wine. Just the thought of you. Oh, you make me shy. I love the way you wake me up. You kiss so sweetly. She has a sweet voice. Right? Did you take a picture of me already or not? I took three pictures. Do you got? Oh, nice. We're watching you. Like the FBI, though. But we're honest about it. Nice. So that's Irene Diaz. So you guys know, she's also part of the... You guys were saying something about her? No, we know her because she's a supporter of the Iset Cafe. She goes through all the... She's rolled through to the events. And then I walk into Trader Joe's in South Pasadena. And she's working right there at the... And Trader Joe's. And so... See you, bye. Oh, whatever. So if I want to go and do some shopping, I can just go there? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good We want to make sure that you're also respecting the rights of workers, man. So if you, Mr. Joe, can respect the rights of campesinos and Immaculate Man, that'd be... Can we cuss or no? We can't cuss, huh? Yeah, only in Spanish. You can cuss in Spanish all you want. That would be dope. That would be really dope, Trader Joe. Because, you know, I want to continue to support you. And in reverse, I would like you to continue to support tomato growers who pick your food. Or now I'm going to send the homeboy Lee to get you. And this fool is bad. Yeah, he's mad. That fool looks scary, man. Yeah, he's hitting his face. That fool's got a barba beard that'll handle. Shit. If they ever chase me, I'm going to hide in Bolivia. I know they will take care of me over there. You do look like that fool. You just gave out the secret, dog. Oh, damn it, I did it again. That's why they always catch me. You spoke too much, now I'm going to have to kill you again. Damn it. So if you're interested in hearing Irene, the SB4, our February 15th show at Mucho at The Echo, you can go ahead and tune in to Radio Sombra on February 9th at 8 p.m. She will be there live, sharing her beautiful, sweet voice, and also interviewing with Ricky and Polo. Yeah. We got Ricky here. Where's Ricky? Ricky Garay was here. That was kind of funny, yeah. Yeah, he's cool, man. He's also an actor, too. He was doing some acting shows. I saw his couple of shows. It's really funny, yeah. It's like, man, you're really talented, dude. Ricky has been a great ally and supporter for Las Cafetanas. I really love what he does. Yeah, he's given us so much, not only his audience, but just the space to be able to play around with our music, and he's always been supportive, even when we were a little shaky on wanting to pursue. There was Mucho Musica.net, right? Or Mucho Musica? Mucho Musica. On Facebook. Just Google it. He's going to be doing it on me. Anyway, Ricky had just done a lot of work to make sure that Latinos who play music and who are artists here in Los Angeles have a space to do so. And for young Chicanos and people of color to have spaces just to go and have fun and create communities. So shout out to Ricky for letting us do that. Big ups. Maxima respect, Ricky. Maxima. Are you okay? He's going to be doing his first show there too, right? Like a radio show as well. Yeah, and the radio. Yeah, it's Mucho Radio. That's pretty cool, man. That is pretty cool. Big time. I think Ricky should call in if he's listening. Yeah, Ricky, escucha, llámanos. It's free. It's 1-800-893-9562. He knows the number. Standard rates apply. And listen, we're going to take a break. We're going to hear some indie dance mixes here. And we're going to come back. We'll do it to you guys. And then we'll play more of your music. And also, you brought some music here you want us to play. Yep. Which is going to be the, I will call the Las Cafeteras jukebox. Oh. Te gusta eso, huh? Te gusta? Yeah, te gusta mucho, huh? Yeah, bien. All right, so we're going to go ahead and play this one here. And we're going to come back here at Piñata Hour. All right. Good What are you doing? 2,000, baby. Look, I'm not doing it with no hands. No hands. You got a bum file, man. Oh, my God. Next one. I hate technology. La Bamba. No. I can't? Yeah. What time is it? 10.48? I have got a birthday. Dude, it's fucking so early. How did I get so drunk? Man, this is nice. It's hot in here. Oh, that was that. Hey, I'm just fucking snowing. Fucking high. Hell yeah. That's a funny picture. Professional. Professional DIY. Bye. Bye. Good You said everything about it moved on your career But if you want to go I'll take you back one day Cause this isn't Paris And this isn't London And it's not Berlin And it's not Hong Kong Not Tokyo But if you want to go I'll take you back one day Back one day Back one day Can't wait for the time Just for a moment, see Something's never going to end Let us rearrange We go perfectly At least that's what I've been told And your mother won't leave you alone And your father won't leave you alone In a minute, things could change At least until you let go It's the middle of the night That's my favorite part Keeps me under the gun There's a part of me That keeps coming through And I will come back To you To you To you To you To you To you Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Reach Out Feeling unknown and you're all alone Flesh and bone by the telephone Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer Takes a confess, put me to the test Things on your chest, you need to confess I will deliver you, no one will forgive her Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers, someone who's there Reach out and touch, baby Reach out and touch, baby Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Reach out and touch, baby Reach out and touch, baby Reach out and touch, baby Reach out and touch, baby We can all do better. We can all do better. That's a pretty cool mix. So we're back here at Piñata Hour at skirostudios.com. What's up? We got Las Cafeteras in the studio. We got Travis. We got Turtle. We got Henry from Bastidas. We got Anerese Frank here in the house. We also have a photographer. It's very stoned. Charlie White. So what else do we have here? Charlie Cortner. We got Doritos. Charlie Marley. We got Doritos. Charlie Marley. Somebody drew a penis here on my page. That's fucked up. Sorry, man. I got bored. This is like a shark penis. Hey, man. It's like a shark. I don't know. Is this a family party or a radio station? It's a free hand. I love it. What kind of piñata is this? I know. What kind of piñata are you going to break open? This is that Democratic piñata. I guess. No Republican at all. I like how you mixed that in. That looks like a unicorn. Like that? Take it and pass it around. All right. So let's play some more Cafeteria because that's what people really want. So we're going to play Café Dos, which is track number one. This song is dedicated to Mr. Cat Williams, the comedian that many folks know. And I hope you dig it. And then we can talk about it after. What's his name? His name? His name? It's dedicated to Cat Williams. remember. Con el gran grito de pasión se levantaron con razón. Con el gran grito de dolores se levantaron como flores. Black and brown fighting together on the 16th of September, a day I'll always remember. Because really, it hasn't been that long, so just in case Cat Williams has you guessing, let me kick you all down with a little history lesson. In the 19th century, while the U.S. promoted annihilation, degradation with its military and U.S. Navy, Mexico was working to get rid of the caste system. Voted for its first indigenous president and getting rid of, yes, even legalized slavery. The Underground Railroad, which also ran south, led black folks to freedom with brown folks right there to lead them. In 1946, it was the Mendez family that fought against segregation in schools. Because before that, they treated us like fools, pushing us out into gangs, wars, and drugs. And they'd get pissed off at us when we'd become thugs. Crips and bloods. Zutzus, traviesos, pachucas, punks, hipoperas, haraneras in the heat, haraneros with a bomb as beat, haraneros talking about what's really going on in the street. Because Alabama and Arizona, they don't play carving out racist lies like it's made out of clay. So I tell you, I would rather be blind than to stay quiet on a day where my people hunt down like prey. Because my ability to breathe is directly connected to my ability to see that I'm not alone. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here. And it's not about me. It's about we. It's time to move, y'all. It's movement time. Movement time. What are your thoughts on Occupy LA, Occupy New York, Occupy this? What do you guys think of that? Is that working? Well, what do you think about it, Dan? I mean, I'm asking you. I'm trying to flip it on you. No, I think it's working. I think it's... Occupy LA, Occupy Wall Street, all that jazz. I think it did what none of our movements could do. Right? Like, it talked about income inequality across the country in a way. It made it... I mean, people are now talking about why the fuck are people making... Like, the president... Right, or not the president. Presidential candidate, Mick Romney. That fool makes $46 million a year. You know that he's a Mexican-American? Fool, that fool is a Mexican-American. Can you believe that? Can you believe that? Can you believe that? Can you believe that? Can you believe that? Can you believe that? Can you believe that? Can you believe that? Can you believe that? I cannot believe that shit. That fool makes... That fool makes $57,000 a day. Mick Romney is not Mexican-American. Fool. Hey, fool, I'm glad you said that, dog. I was just wondering. He is. If you look, if you look, look, watch. Yeah, the Republican is a Mexican-American. Sorry. But that fool makes $57,000 a day. A day. How much does he make? $57,000. No. A day, yo. $157,000. $157,000 a day? What occupies all that shit? That's a lot of money. What would you do with such a money? That's like J-Lo money. I would travel. That is J-Lo money right there. Well, that's what they do, but they go from state to state. $36,000 at least. Let's make a bet right now. I bet you she makes $45 million a year. Who? J-Lo. J-Lo. They say J-Lo makes that much. $45,000. Oh, yeah. They make... In 2011, I bet you she made $45 million a year. Look it up. Hey, Annette, why don't you tell them what we're going to do with the $40 million that we would do? What would we do with $40 million? Why don't you tell them what's in the plans? Oh, you mean the traveling? Yeah. Speaking of. Traveling forever. Right. Look it up. Look it up. That question actually is for Denise, and we assigned her to answer that one. Oh, right. Oh, me? Yeah. Busted. Oh. I'm sorry. I was texting. Oh. Oh. So traveling. We are really excited of just being able to get out of L.A. and share our music. We're excited to go to Arizona, to the Mecha Nationals. We're excited to go to New York, hopefully in the spring. Chicago, Boston, hopefully. So we have a couple folks that are, you know, that are interested in having our music and having us visit and really make connections with what's going on here. If you guys get invited, if you guys get invited to play at the White House, would you guys come down? Well, we don't have to talk about that, I guess. Yeah? That's a good question. Because I can call right now. I mean, Obama, we go way back. Go for it. We have to bring our messages even more, you know. Everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can talk about Occupy and walk through the White House. Yeah. So, yeah, we would go. That'd be crazy, huh? Invite us. What would you do? We'd share them. I would tell them to pick the White House. We'd share them. Where would you do Hector at the White House? We can have mucho D's and spin at the White House. Oh, that would be dope. That bitch should be sick, huh? Hell yeah. It'd be like sick. It'd be really sick, man. Like that. That'd be dope, man. If we could have mucho D's at the White House and then just kick everybody out. Hey, talking about house, you guys having a house party? Yes. Are you going to make that happen? You want to talk about it or not really? Oh, fuck that. No, no. What happened? Is this going to be called the Brown House or what? No, no. We used to have, in 2005 and 2006, we threw this bomb East L.A. party. We threw big parties. And that's what Cafeteras, that's what we used to do. Throw big parties, fundraise, and then go to Mexico and learn how to play music. Right? And so we would, and we haven't done that in a long time. We're like, snap. You know, so we need to throw another house party. So we're going to have one February 11th. It's going to be at my pad. Check out our Facebook. I mean, it's going to be cracking. Top secret. You know what I'm saying? No shit. No address. It's going to be on like Donkey Kong and Steel. Steel. Just follow the elotero and he will tell you. If you want it, it will come. Elotes, fiestas, pachangas. If you play it, they will come. Hell yeah. That's right. See that? That's what she said. And you can quote that right there. Little office quote right there. But yeah, we're doing it February 11th, big time. A house party like no other in the East Side. And on my block, they never call the cops. So it's cracking. That's how it is, man. That's how it is. How it should be. From Boyle Heights all the way to Pomona and passing the Fontana. That's how it should be. And so it hits us up. It's like a mariachi party every weekend where I live. It's going to be good then. Oh, really? Yeah. Where do you live? Ballin Park. Oh, VP. Pesado Huevo. SGV Sun. Pesado Huevo. Awesome neighborhood. If y'all in the SGV, y'all hit us up. Give us a call at 1-800-893-9562. I love the SGV and I love you. Yeah, man. We want to let y'all know too about our album where we're going to be releasing our CD. Are you guys doing it independently? Yep. It's all Cafeteras and the support of a lot of really good folks out there. So if you would like to help us spread the message of Las Cafeteras and Justicia and love, loving yourself, loving your community, we would love your support. We're going to have a CD release party on May 12th and we'll get y'all more. You can check our Facebook for more info. Let my band play. Oh, like that. The new biggest fan. Right here. Thank you. What's the name of your band? I'm done. Peg Leg Love. Pirates, man. Everybody loves pirates. We have a, we have, we have one of our members, we have one of our members in the studio tonight, Mr. Henry Lopez. Where is he? What up, Henry? Where's Henry? He's the guy, the guy with the beard. Right there. And our founding member is from Azusa, California. Oh, SGV. Mr. Alerzanelli. SGV is, you know, it's hardcore, man. It's a lot of good stuff there. But we're excited, man. We've done a lot of like, we learned some Jarocho music, like we said at the Eastside Cafe. It's a traditional music that's, man, hundreds of years old. It's Afro-Mexican. It has, you know, African roots, indigenous roots, Spanish roots. And we're, we kind of came through that tradition and we're excited to, to really share, like, our influences, you know. It's going to have hip hop. It's going to have spoken word. It's going to have, like, a folky vibe. It's going to have all kinds of different feels. And so we're excited to bring that, you know. And so, put in your calendars now, May 12th. Come to the CD release if you're in L.A. And definitely it'll be on iTunes and all that jazz. So... I will put it, I will blast it here in the show. You know, just remind me and... That was a golf clap. And I guess... Golf clap. So February 11th, y'all. Yes, yes. Be there or be square. I want to thank you guys for coming down. You guys got to go. I understand. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. Rehearse. So important things. Yes. It is, man. It is, man. We are rehearsing right now. Hey, so if you want to play a song next, there's a little... Can we play La Bamba? Or that would be, like, to stream, to, like... Come on. I just saw the movie yesterday and it made me cry again. Every time I shed a tear, I swear to God. All right, you want to do my... You want to do my... Which one? My bomb? Don't make me do it. What about me? What about me? You ugly. Was that good or no? Yeah, that was good. Well, he doesn't play guitar, that's why. Not my Richard. You guys both need a little work. We'll get there. We'll get there. Hey, we'll get there. Yeah. Inspired by the Chicano from Pacoima, Richie Valens and all those people who play La Bamba. You know, like, this is La Bamba, our interpretation, estilo Isla, and the lyrics there are basically, you know, what we feel, what we see, and we hope folks dig it, and if you don't, it's all gravy, and if you do, even better. But this is what, this is how, this is Bamba for us, man. That's it. In all seriousness, I love it. You got a clap to that. There it is. Come on. Raise your hands. Yes. Out. Out. Out. I'll go up, up, up, I won't believe in borders. I won't believe in borders, I'll cross, I'll cross, I'll cross. My I'm from the valley of San Gabriel, because there we were created, because there we were created, our family up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there, up there up there I'll do it, but up and up Up and up and up I'll go like the shoemakers Like the shoemakers I'll fight, I'll win My precious girl My precious girl, my adoration The one I love The one I love, my heart Up and up Up and up and up I'll go like the shoemakers I'm not for war I'm not for war I'll support you, I'll support you, I'll support you Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey The love that I want The love that I want is my want And my heart beats And my heart beats With my little heart Up and up Up and up and up I'll go like the shoemakers I'm not for war Up and up Up and up I'll cross it! I beg you, I beg you! I beg you, I beg you with all my heart that the bamba fits that the bamba fits in another zone up there, up there up there, up there, up there I don't believe in borders I don't believe in borders I'll cross it! I'll cross it! I y'all and it's all about the music and the movement so keep it moving everybody make the change in your own community love yourselves and move it forward I'm going to love myself get a room get a room we'll see you on February 15th at Mucho Love and Liberation with Las Cafeteras this is Denise, buenas noches so you guys going to play on the echo on February 11th right? the 15th I'm sorry alright so we're going to play some more music and we'll see you guys soon we're going to come back with Travis say what? play Nina Simone, Alabama Goddamn Mississippi Goddamn you got it man so we're going to come back with Travis and we got Turtle and we got Henry everybody we're going to hang out here so we're going to play some more music thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan I try. I try. There's no sign of life. It's just a power to charm. I'm lying in the rain. But I never wave bye-bye. But I try. I try. Never gonna fall for. Finding love. What's beside me? Finding love. What's on fire? Finding love. Gets me to the church on time. Church on time. Terrorize me. Church on time. Makes me party. Church on time. What's my trust inside of me? God and man. No confession. God and man. No religion. God and man. Don't believe me. Murder love. Good I'm still standing in the wind, but I never went by. But I try, I try. Never gonna fall for hiding love. What's beside me? Hiding love for somebody. Hiding love, get to speak to the church on time. Church on time, terrifies me. Church on time, makes me body. Church on time, brings my trust in God and man. God and man, but no confession. God and man, but no religion. God and man, I don't believe in modern love. Modern love. Modern love Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Good DJs. We're all working together on this. We're planning now on building a giant pinata. That's the word around town. I will help paper mache that. Are you guys working on it right now? I will help. We're getting all the materials. I will make some glue. I will get in my swim trunks and I will help paper mache that pinata. It's going to take a while. It's going to take more than a week. I pledge. You can get it done in one day. We're going to take a couple of days and make this shit happen. It's going to be good. It's going to be a good event. Is Bastida going to play? Yeah. Okay, cool. We're done, right? Uh-oh. It's been said. It's a week and a half. It's a week and a half away. It's coming up quick. Nice. It's a week and a half away. It's a week from Saturday. Tell me more. Nine o'clock, a week from Saturday. What if I'm uneducated and I don't know what I'm hearing right now on the radio? Tell us more, Turtle, about this food nut bomb. Well, my seven Travis is right. I'm going to elaborate a little bit more again. Please. 1729 East 21st Street Food Nut Bombs Benefit Show featuring handmade pinatas, Bastidas, really good food, and four DJs that we'll leave unnamed. Check out the Facebook to see the details on that, but all you need to know is Bastidas is going to be there. Will there be any skateboard obstacles? Are you going to have that thing so we can all swing? Do you still have that swinging? The venue has a tire swing, a half pipe if you skate. So there is a half pipe. Yeah. Are there some little rail boxes like they used to be? Yeah. Hey, I got the list here. I got the list of the DJs that are going to be here. It's going to be Pablo Furama. Uh-oh. He's going to do some reggae stuff. Ooh. No? All right. See the list? It's about hip hop. Yeah, I know he's going to be doing early 90s hip hop. Select some jungle music. We're going to have some jungle music. Early 90s hip hop. I'll be there. We got some hip hop too. We got Bastidas. What? 9 p.m. 9 p.m. And get there early because we're going to have some food. When is this again? Tacos? A week from Saturday. February 11th. What day is that? I'm completely brain dead. It's going to be February 11th. That's February 11th. It's a Saturday. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be like an art raffle. A lot of handmade art. Like I said, we're making the pinatas. We're making the pinatas. It's handmade. It's a first for me, but I'm really excited to get my hands wet. I might get my hands wet tonight. Oh, God. I'd love that. My hands wet. What are you doing? Who's coming up next week on Pinata Hour? I think next week we're going to have It's Casual. And also we're going to have So Many Weezers. Nice. Oh, shit. Are they a big deal band or what? I know that Jeff Geist just joined their band. Oh, Jeff Geist. He just joined So Many Wizards not too long ago. What is he playing? I think he's playing bass. He's playing bass with So Many Wizards. They're cool. They're a really good band. Yeah, they're good. They're going to Side by Side. What's that? Just find out. Oh. They're going to go to... You're talking about So Many Weezers, right? Yeah. Yeah. What's the dude from... What's it called? The New Motherfuckers? Pizza? What's his name? Yeah, Jeff. Yeah. He's in their band. Amazing. That's old school. The New Motherfuckers. Hey, I want to play this Big Chain. You know what I mean? Maybe we can... We can make this happen here. This band... I saw this band last night. It's casual. They played La Cita last night. And they have... Like, from here to the wall, it's like about... Stack of... Yeah. And the drummer... It's an awesome drummer. Finally, this guy settled down, I guess. Because he got, like, so many drummers. I know this guy for a while. And I think Marco Lee was his... He's listening to the show right now. He wants to say what's up to... You know, Marco Lee was... Yeah. He was there last night, too. Oh, okay. Yeah. We're hanging out. And so this band here is casual. They have the name... The song called The Red Line. And it's a pretty... Have you guys seen this band? No. No, let's check it out. I'd like to take your virginity away right now. All right. So we're going to play this right now. It's casual. It's a big old bus right there. Yeah. The video was done by this guy. He works with Jackass. It's a big-ass bus. Which guy? Oh, yeah. No, I saw this video. Oh, my God. They're local. They're, like, local FBV, right? Right. I agree with this song. The freeways are not nice. The singer kind of looks like Marco Rivas. This is funny. I guess Mark grew his beard out. Chick Chick. It looks just like Lee. Look at that beard. The Red Line. The Red Line. The Red Line. The Red Line. The Blue 10. The 605. The freeways are not so nice. The I-5. The I-10. Pretty good, huh? The freeways are not so nice. The 101. The 405. They're fucking loud as hell, too. Oh, really? I can imagine, man. Insane. But you know what? That's good. They're promoting the Red Line, which is, you know, people should take public transportation more. Do you think the band, so many wizards have music here? Maybe, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I would imagine. Oh. So many wizards. So many burps. So this guy, they filmed the video on the Red Line. It looks like it, yeah. It's pretty good. I love the Red Line. It has piss. It works out for you? No, it just smells like piss, and I love the smell of piss. Downtown LA, baby. We were, like, trying to see you a lot. We got a pimp in the piss. Next week, we're going to have so many wizards. This is it, right? Yeah. All right, let's do it. Let's hear it a little bit so we get an idea. Aw. It's cute. Yeah. Very, very cute. I want to blow kisses. I'm just going to hug you, man. I'm going to squeeze you. Good Oh, yeah, they used to be Oh, darling, text me Just so many wheezers. Yeah, we should listen to another one of theirs, too. That sounds pretty cool. Yeah, really nice. I mean, they're... Yeah, I've seen them a couple of times here and there, and it's always a good show, for sure. Have you seen him... I think I saw him at this... Yeah, I saw him at Purse Space. I saw him at Purse Space once, and... Yeah, they're good. They're local. Shout-outs? Yeah. Shout-out. You know who I saw, Lee? I saw Dustin's new band, Habits. Ah, Habits. They're pretty good. Dustin, Bobby. Call us to see them. Step City. Step City, call us to see them. Step City. Step City, call us to see them. Good This guy should play with its castle. Stab City, vote for them on the deli.com. When is that over? I don't know what it is. Still going, right? I just know that it doesn't matter. They should win. What's the name of the website? The deli? I think it's the deli.com. I don't know if it's out of, I don't think it's Universal, maybe Chicago, LA. Yeah, when you go to the website, you click Los Angeles, London. All you have to do is listen to it. Press the little headphone button and listen. But I know Stab City ain't cheating. So vote for them because they're the only people on the list that I actually want to see win this. So, Coliseum. Yeah. I want to thank you guys for coming down. I appreciate the ride. It was very, very nice not to sit through LA traffic. I want to take Big Chain right there. He's focusing on what he's doing right now. Nice. I want to thank Las Cafeteras for coming down. That was great. Good man. It was tough. Don't forget to tune in the rest of the shows at Skate Row. We have the more music, Hammond, everything. We also have a new show, too. We got Jake Gallagher here. Jake Gallagher tomorrow. February 2nd, Thursday. I don't know the time, but I know that it's Jake Gallagher. Yeah, we got Shane in there. Preston Thalindrew. Mr. Foto. Yeah. And anybody want to give any shout outs to your insurance company or something? I love my mom. Farmers insurance company. My mom makes me. I love my mom. I love my mom. I love my mom. I love my mom. I love my mom. I love my mom. I love my mom. And it's very awesome. And most of the time. Yeah. Wow. Wow. All right. Listen. So we're going to go out. Don't forget to tune in next week, Wednesday. Here at Skate Row Studios.com. Another piñata. We're going to have two bands in here. And we're going to have all the goods. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So we're going to go out with like this. What's your name, yo? Thank you. What's your name? Wait a moment. Wait a moment. Wait a moment. Wait a moment. Wait a moment. Wait a moment.