Os Mutantes reunite for US shows

[flamingyouth]

Well, minus Rita Lee...

On July 21st, Brazilian psychedelic legends Os Mutantes, once known for their outrageous multimedia spectacles, will reunite for their first tour since 1973. The shows will be the first ever in the U.S. for the group.

"Anyone calling themselves the Mutants feels like our brothers," says Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, who will share the stage with the Mutantes during their July 23rd performance at the Hollywood Bowl.

While founding singer Rita Lee will not perform -- "I bless this Mutantes reunion," she chimed in over e-mail, "but I'm not in the mood to get back into the past" -- brothers Arnaldo and Sergio Dias Baptista and drummer Ronaldo "Dinho" Leme will be joined by a sextet of musicians.

Founded in 1965 in Sao Paulo by the teenage Baptistas and Rita Lee, who later married Arnaldo, the trio quickly became local television stars. "They're still kids, and they play astonishingly well -- and they know everything," producer-arranger Rogerio Duprat, who later served as their George Martin, remarked at the time. "It can't be true!"

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10905260/tropicalia_legends_os_mutantes_reunite_for_us_shows

[sundog]

1. el justiciero cha cha cha

:D

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

2. I tried to get tickets to the KCRW show on Sunday

Os Mutantes is playing with the Flaming Lips and Thievery Corporation. Should be pretty sweet.

[sundog]

3. did you get tickets?

or just try?

that's gotta be an amazing show

[Initech]

4. No, sold out.

:grr:

I would love to see the Lips live, they're one of my favorite bands as of lately.