{"product_id":"trinis-california-1970s","title":"Trini's, California 1970s","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTrinidad Lopez III, known as Trini, left a burgeoning musical career in his native Texas to drive to Los Angeles in the early 1960s to try out as the new lead singer of The Crickets, the late Buddy Holly’s band. (Buddy Holly and two others died in a plane crash in 1959)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHis auditions didn’t work out and, needing to earn more money to support his parents back in Dallas, he booked solo shows. It was the heart of the Swinging Sixties and at PJ’s nightclub in Beverly Hills, LA’s first discotheque, he was discovered by Frank Sinatra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHe went on to be signed to Sinatra’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eReprise Records\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand became one of the most popular entertainers of that era and an honorary member of the Rat Pack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHis multiple chart hits included\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf I Had A Hammer\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLemon Tree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand his own distinctive version of the Mexican song\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Bamba.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHis popularity spread to Europe where he shared a bill with the Beatles. It was just before the Beatles debut in America in 1964 and the French newspaper\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eL’Impartial\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewrote in a review’ Bravo Trini Lopez…Who Are the Beatles?’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs well as being a singer, Trini was an accomplished guitarist. His Mexican-born musician father had bought him his first guitar from a pawn shop for $12 and taught his son to play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn 1964 the Gibson company asked Trini to create a guitar. He ended up designing two: the Trini Lopez Standard, a rock and roll model based on the Gibson ES-335 semi-hollow body, and the Lopez Deluxe, a variation of a Gibson jazz guitar designed by Barney Kessel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAccording to the documentary\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Name is Lopez,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eTrini was the first artist to mix folk songs with the-then nascent genre of rock and roll and traditional Latin American rhythms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHowever, his ethnicity caused him to face discrimination. One of his first all-white bands woke him up one morning to tell Trini he could no longer work with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAlthough he was advised to anglicize his name to get ahead in his music career, he admirably refused to do so. “I’m proud to be a Mexicano,’ he said. He was later able to buy his parents, who picked beets, tomatoes and potatoes to earn a living, their own house and a Cadillac Fleetwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis marvelous menu cover comes from the chain of eponymous Mexican-American restaurants Trini owned in the 1970s. We believe this particular restaurant was located in Anaheim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHe had a sense of humor. When talking about his restaurants with Hugh Hefner on the show\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlayboy After Dark,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTrini said:’ I’m very proud of this venture because my restaurants are so authentic, you can’t even drink the water there.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTrini, who never married or had children, died in 2020 at the age of 83 in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California, from complications of Covid-19. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson archival inks. Custom printed with border for matting and framing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eEach order includes a print of the interior menu.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll printed in USA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage Menu Art","offers":[{"title":"8.5x11\" Archival Print (Unframed) $25.00","offer_id":57492250689702,"sku":"wmz1790054197119","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11x14 Archival Print (Unframed) $30.00","offer_id":57492250722470,"sku":"rib1790054197120","price":23.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"13x19 Archival Print (Unframed) $40.00","offer_id":57492250755238,"sku":"sfx1790054197121","price":31.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x20 Archival Print (Unframed) $55.00","offer_id":57492250788006,"sku":"ais1790054197122","price":34.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x24 Archival Print (Unframed) $85.00","offer_id":57492250820774,"sku":"rjr1790054197123","price":66.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36 Archival Print (Unframed) $135.00","offer_id":57492250853542,"sku":"nvo1790054197124","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/9133\/8662\/files\/trinis-california-1970s_1.webp?v=1790054200","url":"https:\/\/coffeetamper.shop\/products\/trinis-california-1970s","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}