{"id":29939,"date":"2022-06-05T07:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T12:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29939"},"modified":"2022-06-04T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T20:11:32","slug":"thankfully-its-not-musical-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/05\/thankfully-its-not-musical-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankfully, It&#8217;s Not Musical Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned, gentle reader, I support friends&#8217; and acquaintances&#8217; artistic endeavours.  I mean, I will buy books, I will buy CDs, and I will even go to see friends in musical theatre productions.  I prefer CDs and book because I do not like musicals, and musicals tend to cost several hundred dollars instead of $10 or $20.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned I bought Connor Fiehler&#8217;s CD <em>Generation Flee<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/26\/brian-j-unbalanced-2\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2020<\/a> because I used to work with his parents.  When his mother posted on Facebook that he had a new band, I gave it a listen.<\/p>\n<p>She linked to this performance:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ZSp2JecI5w\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wow, okay, a soul\/funk band with a horn section.  That&#8217;s better than <em>Generation Flee<\/em>, and the one lead singer can really wail.<\/p>\n<p>The band, The Pitch Pockets, has a single, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B09WVN8FBH\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Out My Mind&#8221;<\/a>, available on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8Glv1EmHzY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have bought it, of course, and hope they&#8217;ll release more.  They&#8217;ve got some other things on YouTube worth watching as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned, gentle reader, I support friends&#8217; and acquaintances&#8217; artistic endeavours. I mean, I will buy books, I will buy CDs, and I will even go to see friends in musical theatre productions. I prefer CDs and book because I do not like musicals, and musicals tend to cost several hundred dollars instead [&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-29939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939","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=29939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29940,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939\/revisions\/29940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}