{"id":8002,"date":"2018-05-13T04:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T08:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2018-05-13T04:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T08:53:37","slug":"i-saw-brand-x-live-a-few-hours-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"I saw Brand X live a few hours ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Brand X live a few hours ago. Great jazz-fusion band from the 1970s, still playing like genius maniacs after all these years. Dropped $200 on tickets, dinner for me and my wife, and a Brand X cap. Worth. Every. Penny.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, they saved &#8220;Nuclear Burn&#8221; for the encore&#8230;only during the last regular number some idiot managed to spill water on Goodsall&#8217;s guitar pedals, making it unsafe for him to play. So that blistering guitar line that hypnotized me as a college student in 1976 had to be played by their current keyboardist, Scott Weinberger. And damned if he didn&#8217;t pull it off!<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant performance all round. Lots of favorites, some new music including a track called &#8220;Violent But Fair&#8221; in which this band of arcane jazzmen demonstrated conclusively that they can out-metal any headbanger band on the planet when they have a mind to. And, of all things, a whimsical cover of Booker T and the MGs&#8217; &#8220;Green Onions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The audience loved the band &#8211; nobody was there by accident, it was a houseful of serious prog and fusion fans like me. The band loved us right back, cracking jokes and goofing on stage and doing a meet-and-greet after the show.<\/p>\n<p>I got to shake Goodsall&#8217;s hand and tell him that he had rocked my world when I first heard him play in &#8217;76 and that it pleases me beyond all measure that 40 years later he&#8217;s still got it. You should have seen his smile.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna wear that Brand X cap next time I go to the pistol range and watch for double-takes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/disq.us\/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dvo7mYqaMKXA%3AdwBP0GPCMgQBdplTy2igSMHaB5Y&amp;cuid=4235850\">&#8220;Nuclear Burn&#8221; by Brand X<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Brand X live a few hours ago. Great jazz-fusion band from the 1970s, still playing like genius maniacs after all these years. Dropped $200 on tickets, dinner for me and my wife, and a Brand X cap. Worth. Every. Penny. Yeah, they saved &#8220;Nuclear Burn&#8221; for the encore&#8230;only during the last regular number&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8002\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I saw Brand X live a few hours ago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8005,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}