{"id":11560,"date":"2016-10-04T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2016-10-03T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:42:02","slug":"into-the-wayback-machine-with-the-allah-las","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/04\/into-the-wayback-machine-with-the-allah-las\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Wayback Machine with the Allah-Las"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Allah-Las<\/strong>‘ sound has clear antecedents in the garage and psychedelic rock scenes of the mid 1960s. But the band is careful not to make too much of that connection. \u201cI think there’s a certain shared musical consciousness,\u201d says bassist Spencer Dunham<\/strong>. \u201cBut the 60s were a very different time period. I wouldn’t say that I feel like we’re doing the same thing now. The musical environment is so different that there isn’t a lot of commonality. High school groups were playing Battle of the Bands when that was all new. Now there’s Facebook and Youtube, and anyone can do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group favors vintage instruments both in the studio \u2013 as on their newest release, Calico Review<\/i> \u2013 and onstage. But even here the Allah-Las don’t go overboard. \u201cMost older instruments \u2013 particularly amplifiers \u2013 have a sound that you can’t re-create with modern technology,\u201d Dunham says. \u201cThere’s a certain aspect to all that, but you can only take it so far.\u201d Their songs as presented onstage give modern-day listeners the most authentic recreation of what it must have been like to see bands like Love<\/strong> at legendary L.A. venues such as Pandora\u2019s Box and the Whisky-a-Go-Go.<\/p>\n

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All four members of the Los Angeles-based group were born long after the 1960s were over. But they discovered the music that would influence them, and bonded over their shared appreciation of it. \u201cA few of us worked at Amoeba Music in Hollywood,\u201d recalls Dunham. \u201cDuring that time we found lots of new music. And because classic rock wasn’t interesting enough to us, we would find bands that were less popular.\u201d<\/p>\n