''What Happened to the La Las'' is the tenth studio album by the American rock band moe. It was released on January 24, 2012. As per usual, most of the songs on this album were road-tested prior to being recorded. "The Bones Of Lazarus" is a reworking of an earlier live favorite, simply called "Lazarus." The composition was renamed in recognition of the 2012 novel, The Bones of Lazarus. Two of the songs - "Chromatic Nightmare" and "Suck A Lemon" - were originally conceived for a themed 2010 performance known as "The Electric Lemoe.nade Acid Test". Although "Haze" was written and originally sung by guitarist Al Schnier, the mic was handed over to bassist Rob Derhak for this album version, and he has handled the vocals on most versions performed since. A deluxe edition of the album was released with a second disc containing acoustic versions of all the songs.

Track listing

#"The Bones of Lazarus" (

Rob Derhak ''Robert Derhak'', also known simply as Rob, is the bass guitar player and a founding member of the American jam band moe. History Derhak's earliest known time performing as a member of a band was on Halloween 1989, playing at a party with guit ...

) – 3:56 #"Haze" (

Al Schnier Al Schnier (born January 9, 1968) is a musician most noted for being one of two guitarists for the American jam band Moe. History Schnier was born on January 9, 1968, in Utica, New York. He attended New Hartford Central High School in Oneida ...

) – 5:12 #"Downward Facing Dog" (Schnier) – 7:54 #"Rainshine" (Schnier) – 4:39 #"Smoke" (Schnier) – 3:39 #"Paper Dragon" (Derhak) – 4:48 #"Chromatic Nightmare" ( Jim Loughlin) – 3:43 #"Puebla" (Schnier) – 4:10 #"One Way Traffic" (Derhak) – 2:54 #"Suck a Lemon" (

Chuck Garvey Chuck Garvey is one of two guitarists for the American rock band moe. His playing has been influenced by Frank Zappa, Mick Ronson, David Bowie, Pete Townshend, Andy Summers, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He lives in the Cincinnati, Oh ...

) – 4:30

Personnel

– lead vocals,

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

– lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, mandolin *

– lead

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Vinnie Amico – drums * Jim Loughlin –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

, MalletKat, DrumKat,

timpani Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally ...

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the S ...

on "Downward Facing Dog"

References

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