JOHNNY CONGA videos & photos

[JohnnyConga]

Found this pic of me with El Chicano doing a Cheech and Chong Xmas party I think at Burbank studios...1980-81

Johnny Conga

[JohnnyConga]

Backstage at the old Sahara Tahoe Hotel-Lake Tahoe with Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77...Im the one with the beard and the crutch under my left arm..I had broken my foot 3 hours before opening night ..they took me to the hospital put me in a fiberglass cast and i toured for the next 3months with Sergio like that on crutches, of course i didnt use them on stage...though I did walkout with them to my stage position...people were like What?...hows he gonna play like that? ...well I did...nuff said...Johnny Conga

[JohnnyConga]

With the Newest and Hottest band and never ever heard in 1980, Los Angeles sad ending to a great band...I wont go into it here, you will have to read abut it in my new book 'Rhythm makes my Heart Beat!"....whenever that come out... ..Johnny Conga

[CongaTick]

You serious about the book?

[JohnnyConga]

Yes and I have already started writing it...it's gonna be about my life and experiences, so its gonna take time to do...Johnny Conga

[JohnnyConga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDPI8V3_j_I

this is an exercise you can try out and of course without the gloves..and please dont ask me why i use them...my hands get real cold in the winter so when i practice I wear them...ok?....vayaaaaaaa!....Johnny Conga

[JohnnyConga]

Here is a version of Guarapachangeo for you try and some other riffs I threw in...the first pattern I am playing is an ol skool NY Mozambique, that I learned back in the late 60's...then into the GP 20 seconds in....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuoQ6ncPtho

[JohnnyConga]

Here is a video of me taking a conga solo..it's the first time I used a video editing program and it was kinda dark in the place but you can hear it and see...this was in Miami back around 1993..at a place called Toogas in Coral Gables...Ronnie Loreto on bell,Eddie GuaGua on bass, Tony Gudin on drumset,Mario 'del barrio' Marrero on piano,Scott Klarman sax...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtAxcnVFWAw

[JohnnyConga]

so wadda ya think...?....

[Dicemanb]

Nice chops and footwork
Dice

[bongosnotbombs]

Nice one JC!

[JohnnyConga]

Last saturdays gig with TROMBANGA!...

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[JohnnyConga]

Here is another video i was able to edit down....with the Bobby Ramirez-Pan con Bistec band in Miami in 2002 just before i moved to Seattle... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF4cBtNQ58g

[CongaTick]

As always....superb mastery, subtlety, timing. A real pleasure to watch and listen to. It DOES wanna make me pull my hair out, while continuing to inspire. Thank you JC.

[JohnnyConga]

Ok guys just released the first of 4 parts.. Now I know it aint Salsa or Rumba it's Disco/R&B..but check it out and hear what Im laying down here back in 1976...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK3vY48-A6Y