Saturday's concert at the Palace by El Tri was billed as the veteran Mexico City group's first "unplugged" show in Los Angeles, but despite the presence of pianist Lalo Toral (a former member of Los Locos del Ritmo, a pioneering rock en espanol band from the '60s) and violinist Zniev Paleta (a soloist with Mexico's Philharmonic Orchestra), the concert--the first of two nights at the Palace--was as wild as any other Tri performance.
With the help of El Tri's two lead guitarists, bassist-singer Alex Lora waived the usual chairs and intimate atmosphere of an acoustic concert for a 2 1/2-hour journey of blues-based rockers from the group's 28 albums, with the sold-out crowd singing along and dancing ecstatically--no more and no less than at a regular El Tri show.
