La Casa de Blues

Red polo tie, black hat with red ribbon and tight, tight black pants with red inserts.

Sounds cringy? No, it's pure sexo!

I feel like I'm at at a Doors concert with Jim Morrison upfront. Only he's singing in Spanish with a very Spanish accent. The other band members have velvet jackets, long sideburns, and are hammering out the music. Rock'n'roll a Espanol.

The audience at the House of Blues knows every Enrique Bunbury song before it starts.

Ol Jim, Janis Joplin (or Janet Joplin as I heard one museum visitor say) and Jimi Hendrix are the subject of an exhibition at the Grammy Museum in downtown LA.

Their music in the 60s spoke to my generation - and I believe still has something to say to us, evenif they all died young.

And now in America, a Spanish band where the lead singer has taken his name from The Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde) comes to play in the House of Blues on the strip in West Hollywood.

It's a time when singers of Latin American background are demonstrating about new laws in Arizona which make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad powers to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

So much today is celebrating the history of rock and its roots - much of it based on white musicians bringing black music to the rest of the world - it's great to be in a place just purely enjoying the music, whether in English, Spanish or Spanglish.