February 18, 2011

Where have all the Mayalls gone? The Jaggers, the Jimis, the Mayfields? There’s good reason to believe they haven’t gone anywhere, and that it’s just a different game today with a different set of rules when it comes to making it as a rock god. That’s one reason why it’s important to be tuned in to the contemporary music scene. But every so often a legend from the golden era traipses through our local beat. In fact, one is journeying 1,100 miles to give a South Bay audience a lesson in guitar power. Robin Trower performs on Sunday at Brixton in Redondo Beach.

If the plot of “She Loves Me,” the musical currently being performed by Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities (CLOSBC) at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, seems familiar, think Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in “You’ve Got Mail.” The CLOSBC play is actually the fifth adaptation of a 1930s play, “Parfumerie,” written by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo. Other incarnations include the 1940 film “The Shop Around the Corner,” and 1949’s “In the Good Old Summertime.”