Since @msdrazzy took a photo outside the Hong Kong Low earlier and I’m still thinking of @martypreciado question, here are two vids that are a connection of ideas.
Marty asked at L.A. Times Festival of Books panel something akin to “what were the tocadas like?” (I am sure she was asking something more ethnographic, but...) Well here are these rather rare videos of the Hong Kong Low shows!
The first one is fom a 1992 tocada urbana—lo cual explica el bailesito— featuring Sin Tregua con palomazo incluido de Miguel (Razzza) Morales. Video from Rockandres68 @rockandress
The next one is a 1994 video at the Chinatown Plaza outside of the Hong Kong Low. Documentary footage "directed" by my teenager self. ¡Uy si! I have turned off the sound to spare y’all of the redic adolescent narration. We were probably talking about girls from Eagle Rock High School.
In intervals, The Hong Kong Low’s in Chinatown was one of the most notorious venues for the LÁ’s underground music. The Hong Kong Café served as the center of the punk scene in the early 1980s as bands like the Bags, the Plugz, the Weirdos, Black Flag, and the Germs made a name for themselves staging near-riot performances at the Hong Kong Café. By the 1990s the Hong Kong Low also housed another completely underground and outsider emerging music genre: rock Angelino, the LÁ’s variant to rock en español.
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