Just found this in late 2023…my then fiancé and I had just arrived in LA and already were Venice Beach skaters and over 32 years later (30 years married) we still love The La’s…Sherry was soon to be working for KROQ and it’s frustrating to know we just barely missed this chance to take in their live set on blades…all these years later and we still occasionally miss amazing shows here in LA (kinda comes with the territory). Anyway here’s to you gobias1! Thanks for posting!
This is surreal. Listen with headphone. You can hear wham singing club tropicana drinks are free on the local venice beach radio... I love the la’s. Greetz from Belgium
I’m a Scouser(from Liverpool ..same as this band)Always loved these and would never have seen this (and others like it)if it weren’t for people like you.can’t thank you enough.
its so surreal seeing the LA's at venice beach. Two such polar phenomena. Its as strange as if a newly formed betles time travelled and landed on venice beach in the 90's. Think of the music in america at the time, this must have been so alien.
my thoughts exactly dfpguitar, just so totally different, grungy alt rock and hip-hop/rap would have been huge? And this? It's hard to define what it is, but it's ridiculously British. A great juxtaposition. This is some time before Oasis were huge, America wouldn't have seen much that looked, or sounded like the Las back then in a LONG TIME. Also, I bet Anton Newcombe was in that crowd somewhere.
America is a huge country, grunge never dominated everywhere. The indie scene was full of jangly guitar bands, have you heard of REM? The Byrds came from California as did the Beach Boys. There She Goes was a well known song in the early 1990s in America.
Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers, the La's have a ton of American influence all over their sound. They probably had a good time in the local record stores when they were stateside.
One of the best albums of the 90's and the only one (studio album) they did - Hauntingly takes me back to 1990-91 when these songs were a soundtrack for my life. I can't believe what I'm seeing - I'm taken back again...thank you for recording this and posting it so many years later - I am stupefied - in tears. You made my day! The La's are a 'Timeless melody'...
I'm glad this footage exists. I can see myself in the back standing on the KROQ van bumper with my video camera. I lost the tape 10 years ago. Thanks for posting!
Was at this Gig with my girlfriend just found it & saw me in the crowd 9min 35 sec in brings back great memories (hung out with the band for a week or so going with them on a mini tour of LA) lovely fellas !!!
Amazing footage. Weird to see Lee beltin’ out Feelin’ to a bunch of LA 20somethings, in high noon daylight. That’s a workin’ musician for ya. Also their prole scouse fashion sense in ‘91 has aged admirably well into our new decade.
guitarist is dressed like a soft boy, lee is dressed like he works at foot locker, and john is dressed like a bisexual indie boy. i would say their style was ahead of their time
You would only give this a thumbs down if you had absolutely no taste. Great, natural music played as naturally as it gets ....pretty clever lads , the La's.
@@dbouquet Yes, it was an eventful gig for them and we were happy to have them here in SoCal. I remember after the show they signed autographs and then kicked a soccer ball around on the beach.
Pure unadulterated acoustic song bliss. What a band. More musicianship in this one set than Nirvana and Oasis combined. Flawless vocals, great guitar lines and memorable chorus’s.x
Mate I agree as The La's are one of my all time favourite bands but Nirvana and Oasis were worldwide popular for a reason. If Lee and the band hadnt been so stubborn in alot of things they could have been as massive as both Nirvana and Oasis.
They would have been - had they had them. A more innocent time. Imagine when you turned to talk to a friend that they were NEVER looking at their phone. Because there was no phone.
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This is such a historic piece of footage never lose this my God 😮 they came and went never seen again, they were England's answer to our indie band phenomenon The Sunny Boys...
I don’t know. Maybe it’s better to just leave one perfect album (that Lee hates). I can’t imagine they could reform and record anything with that magic now. No matter how good they are, sometimes the time has passed.
great posting ,,,,saw them at the Royal Court in Liverpool the year before ,was amazing ,who'd have thought just the one album at that time ,just fantastic tunes
Great Footage Thank you: I think Americans (The ones that were aware) Really Loved The La,s They easily had the potential to be massive over there , that’s what I think from watching this 👍🏻🌞⭐️❤️
If I could change one thing about music history - I'd decrease Lee Mavers' perfectionism by about 40%. I reckon we'd have at least 5 or 6 La's albums that way.
britpop was trad style indie songwriting, stone roses sound of their time late 80's like the mondays ride the farm etc, no one in the mid nineties would of said these bands today really remind me of the stone roses they were yesterdays news in the mid nineties in terms of their style of music , it sounds pure late eighties not mid nineties
T. Zappa it was a movement in the uk mid 90’s culture and music. The opposite to the grunge scene over in the us. Like Noel Gallagher said nirvana had a tune out called ‘I hate myself and I want to die’ so he wrote live forever. It’s about being British in the 90’s. It’s catchy alternate rock with bright pop melody’s
La’s great representation of Liverpool culture, even their outfits lol. Though a lot of young scousers are now wearing Nike and Under Armour gym wear casually anyone know why?
So funny being from Huyton and having known a couple of the lads to see them playing Venice beach at a time when I was dreaming of skating over there and watching Suicidal Tendencies. I even had an ex from Santa Monica by the time 1991 ended. Lee looks like he can't work out where Sayers is and needs a sausage roll to calm his head down. :D Such a mega memory this is
I was in the states NJ when they played in Aug '91 there - gutted I missed them - wud have loved to see them live - gr8 band gr8 album, (pity Mavers wouldn't give backing vocals on track 1 tho')
RoundheadsMusic yes it was never properly recorded. It was indeed sang live a few times to give people a snippet of what was supposed to be a 2nd album. John and mavers wrote a lot of songs. Heck maybe john took some from mavers. In a good way tho.
The world still isn't ready for The La's.....figure the whole Big Star esque influence would have taken off already. Please don't give me that britpoop influence bullshit. Oasis didn't do it. The only ones that sounded as 60's were The Real People and The Stairs.
