{"id":17028,"date":"2017-10-23T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=17028"},"modified":"2017-10-23T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:01:52","slug":"the-bands-were-too-close-together-in-the-summerfest-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/the-bands-were-too-close-together-in-the-summerfest-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bands Were Too Close Together In The Summerfest Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I bought a Spyro Gyra album <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/good-bookalbum-hunting-thursday-october-19-2017-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">on Friday<\/a> after having heard a Spyro Gyra song on WSIE in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised, actually, that it was a pleasant, smooth jazz song that I heard on the radio.  The album is, too.  Apparently, Spyro Gyra is a jazz fusion group, and that caught me by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I thought Spyro Gyra did zydeco, the accordion-heavy Cajun music style.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you ask?  I sure did.<\/p>\n<p>The best I can figure is that Spyro Gyra played Summerfest a lot in the early days and on the same stages as a band called Buckwheat Zydeco.<\/p>\n<p>So I tainted Spyro Gyra by association.<\/p>\n<p>Spyro Gyra:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSipyFS5nWk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Buckwheat Zydeco:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRRW3aine6Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And one fits my record album tastes.<\/p>\n<p>To be entirely honest, I was not that familiar with Zydeco.  As a matter of fact, the only song I ever heard completely (to this day, even after finding a Buckwheat Zydeco video on YouTube and hearing a couple notes of the squeeze box in it, which was enough for me to stop it) was sung by Ernie on Sesame Street:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/62tnBUDN9X0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know, there was a time when I was excited for the new season of Sesame Street because I was eager to see new material.  But that was a long time ago.  Not as long as Summerfest, though.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I am pleased with my album pick up and will look for more Spyro Gyra in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I bought a Spyro Gyra album on Friday after having heard a Spyro Gyra song on WSIE in the last couple of weeks. I was surprised, actually, that it was a pleasant, smooth jazz song that I heard on the radio. The album is, too. Apparently, Spyro Gyra is a jazz fusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17031,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17028\/revisions\/17031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}