RODRIGO CLEARED FOR VISA

Damn the man, they're just secretly trying to stop Bonnaroo. Next thing you know Sting will be denied his visa & Xavier Rudd will get stopped at the airport. It's a conspiracy, clearly a conspiracy.

Seriously though, that sucks. These two can play.

These two are where Kaki King meets Esteban and it is unfortunate that the country will be denied their acoustic virtuosity, but we've all seen Desperado and we know what kind of a threat guitar-slinging Mexicans represent. This is a necessary move in the ongoing fight against terrorism. We can never be too careful in this "global world".

Oh man what the hell is happening. They are obviously not terrorists, our country needs to get its shit together.

this is like the fifth band to be denied visas in the past 4 months.

Bravo Homeland Security. I feel so much safer now that two more brown eyed guitar virtuosos have been denied access to our country. While were on a roll with the war on terror somebody should let King Bush-Allah know that those kids selling Chicklets down on the border might be dealing in C4 plastic explosives.

Never heard of these two before today.....I checked out their site and find them to be very talented. Truly our loss.

Thanks for shedding some light on the situation--such a bummer. I was really looking forward to their slot at langerado, but when i got to the tent, i was somewhat confused and certainly disappointed to find a bunch of Rober Randolph wannabees on stage.

Bullshit, I say!

I've never heard these guys play but the scenario is total bullshit. These guys clearly are not plotting the next attack on america. Shame to see talent be denied entry into our country just because of their name. Anybody remember a couple years ago Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam) was stopped in a london airport and was not allowed to enter the US because his name showed up on a terror list somewhere. Everyone jump upon the peace train.

This is out of control. I can't believe this shit.

The only negative thing about Langerado for sure. The man needs to check himself.

Damn, dude...can you like, EDIT your copy? A gross mis-spelling and grammatical error in the first two paragraphs, the kind of stuff not even an eighth grade composition student should make...how can you put a story up on a worldwide website like that?

Rodrigo and Gabriela are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based, Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with the timeless Hispano classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music. Rodrigo is a deft finger-picker who can move from raging speed to sensual soul in the space of a fret, while Gabriela employs fast, rhythmic techniques. Her percussionist’s thrashing of strings and drumming of the instrument’s body inevitably raises comparisons with flamenco which they acknowledge as an influence but swerve as a pigeonhole, The duo’s repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitarists’ styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zep’s Stairway To Heaven and Metallica’s Orion are musts, and the presence. On Ixtapa , of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational.

Check out their new CD/DVD it's Absolutely incredible work, and well worth the price.

I don't know about you, but I feel a lot safer now!

What color are we now? Orange? Or is it yellow? Yeah yellow...that's scary. Maybe orange though.

damn, that 5 spot show was gonna be great. that something like a 200 person venue.

Yup, this sounds just about right. GO DHS WOOOOOOOOOOO.

boris the spider are you saying rodrigo y gabriela sound like robert randolph wannabees? must be tough to get acoustic latin flavored songs to sound like gospel influenced funk played on pedal steels. anyway f%#k the dept of homeland security.

I believe Mr. The Spider is referring to the Lee Boys, the act that filled in for Rod & Gab.

ok, makes more sense now.

i think he was saying he went expecting rodrigo y gabriela but instead there was a robert randolph-ish band playing. anyway, this is total fucking bullshit. go usa.

Horrible news. THis comes on the heels of news that the Justice Dept. has charged the FBI with thousands of counts of illegal wire tapping. This is illegal even as far as the Patriot Act goes!!!! The U.S. is falling apart.

i saw the movie Desperado and i dont want crazy mexican terrorists with rocket launchers and machine guns built into their guitar cases blasting my hood! way to go Homeland! stop these dastardly bastardo's at the border! Los Lonely Boys is playing the McDowell Mountain Music Festival in AZ this year. maybe their in-cahoots with these terroristitos!

boooh!

How many days till the next election?

I'm glad this jerk can't come into my country. Maybe he should play a tour in Kenya or Ethiopa, if he's so eager top "spread his music". Go make money elsewhere jerk.

I'm glad this jerk can't come into my country. Maybe he should play a tour in Kenya or Ethiopa, if he's so eager top "spread his music". Go make money elsewhere jerk.

Ridiculous BS by our gov. By the way, the man IS Bonnaroo. Hete to break the news to you.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the homeland security asshole who barred a great muscian

Jimsan every post I read from you, well just plain sucks.

hopefully this issue will get cleared up in time to salvage some of the tour

once again, the man keeping us down. fuckin laaammmeee

" the man IS Bonnaroo "

he's everywhere

Los Lonely Boys are from Texas.

Close enough, I guess.

These guys are a perfect example of bureacracy (however the fuck you spell it.) Due to illegal immigration, a Mexican ID is absolutely worthless, and there is no common sense to clear up this problem. As for Cat Stevens, he's donated money to some pretty hardline Muslim charities. No sense in a US tour that funds our killers.

this is just how close-minded our gov't has become since all this republican laced paranoia has been forced down our throats beginning on 9/12/01 -- it's very disturbing that 90% of the highjackers were from saudi arabia & nothing was done about that fact -- also, has anyone noticed the ass-w-hole & his posse of on the corporate-board flunkies do not mention osama bin laden's name anymore in public -- get out & vote people -- or else this is what we get -- BTW -- rodrigo & gabriela's self titled debut release is awesome -- check it out -- they can play!!!!! -- just not in america - yet!

im confused, as usual... is the whole tour out the window? i can read!! and did see that the Athens and Nashville shows are cancelled but are the other shows just up in the air for now or no dice? I wish you the best of luck with this rediculous situation and hope to BOOGIE to some of that amazing music in the future. I dont feel like complaining or even thinking about this backwards government right this minute so for fun(something i dont usually have on these boards anymore)
Imagine what these two cats could do with the phish song Manteca or Van Halen's Eruption!
what would u like to hear them cover?
YEM!? haha

No Fucking Way!!!!!!!! these two are fuckin sick. We should definatly petition for them. All Hail the Furor!!!!!

These two are stopped at the border, but somebody let W back in. what is going on in this world?

I'm just glad we stopped this dangerous terrorist from killing thousands of innocent hippies.

yes this truly a shame , embarassing even. maybe rod should change his name to jeb or something less un-american? these 2 are def kick ass love what stuff ive heard so far. would really love to see them live. get a clue usa , the real criminals and professional killers are already here and we pay their salaries. 1 star for bs story

WAY TO GO HOMELAND SECURITY - SOMEWHERE IN HELL HITLER IS CHEERING FOR YOU BASTARDS!

i discovered these guys this summer and was super stoked to see that they were playing two dates in the south on sequential weekends. i went to langerado, and was very disappointed to see that they had cancelled their show, but took solice in the fact that i could see them the following weekend in atlanta (for my BIRTHDAY might i add). but when i went to purchase the tickets for the show, i saw that it was cancelled as well. what a disappointment, and DAMN THE MAN and the patriot act!!!!

jimsan
Are you the same punk kid that used to have the picture on here with the fucked up hair? You need to shut up, stop having sex with your sister, and go back to reading pitchfork. Every comment you make sucks and has no intelligence what so ever.
This is Jambase asshole and most of us on here love all kinds of music. Go fuck yourself jimsan you are nothing but a punk ass kid

yo jimsan, if your actually serious, then fuck you. Its people lke you that makes everyone hate the US. Go rub one out to a picture of George Bush and have a nice life in your mothers basement.

THIS GOVERNMENT IS SICK, HOMELAND SECURITY IS SHIT... how are they gonna deprive us from such ART, RO&GA play some sick tunes,

NOT HAPPY ,,! AT ALL!!

jimsan you are a worthless member of society and i hope a bird shits on your face next time you walk outside. maybe you will be blind and then you wont be able to see your keyboard and you won't be able to write completely unjustified negative comments.

they havent cancelled the chicago date yet..maybe their just holding out to see if they can make it on time.

and yea, jimsan is an idiot.

cmaxwell is the only person on this post who has at least half a brain

go fuck yourself jimsan. obviously no-one else will.

whats up now jimsan?.......yeah, thats what I thought.

who ?

"Government Says Rodrigo Sanchez Has Name Similar to Barred Foreigner"
Is it just me, or is "Rodrigo Sanchez" a common Hispanic name?

so wait.... the first list of dates include roo, then the dates at the top leave it out. will their righteous sound grace the stage in manchester or not? heeelp me confusion someone

I have no idea who these guy r but seems like a lot of people r intrested so im gonna have to check them out. Pretty embarrsing that r country was so shitty to him but hey it could inspire some of his music to come pretty emotional situation im sure.