{"id":573887665,"date":"2015-02-15T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T21:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887665"},"modified":"2015-02-20T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:28:04","slug":"guster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/guster\/","title":{"rendered":"Guster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few clips from the Friday night rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll concert with Guster in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iLuD_prU5fg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They do not play Airport Song anymore. Haven&#8217;t done it in years, despite the people throwing ping pong balls. A friend saw their show in Birmingham and sent me the set list. I kept asking about Airport, but he just glossed over it, ignoring my question. So, I convinced myself, it must be a surprise in the encore or something, but no. <\/p>\n<p>This seems a bit odd. Airport Song was their first break into the mainstream, if you will. And 99X in Atlanta (then WNNX, now WWWQ) basically willed that song into being a hit. I&#8217;m sure it got a lot of play elsewhere, the single climbed to #35 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart. I listened to a lot of 99X streaming over the web when I was in my internship in 1998. That song played a lot. The Clinton scandal, 99X and learning more and more about Photoshop were among the basic highlights of the year. Hearing intern jokes at work, listening to that compressed-but-streaming over RealPlayer ping pong game (and a ton of Harvey Danger) while studying pixels took up some time. <\/p>\n<p>The video, as all videos must be in retrospect, was weird and underwhelming: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0o98yBtHhFg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have four or five Guster albums on my phone, they come up a lot when I&#8217;m running. And yet, still, I was surprised by how easy it is to forget how much you enjoy some people&#8217;s live shows. Adam talked in between songs about how the fans have stayed with the group as they have gone from a three-piece acoustic based group to this slightly more trippy electronica thing they&#8217;re doing now. And he also said they&#8217;ve been noticing that for a long time their audiences stayed the same age, young, but, lately, the audiences were now <em>their<\/em> age again. So maybe a lot of people are figuring that out. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guster.com\/tour\">good show, great fun, go see &#8217;em<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few clips from the Friday night rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll concert with Guster in Atlanta. They do not play Airport Song anymore. Haven&#8217;t done it in years, despite the people throwing ping pong balls. A friend saw their show in Birmingham and sent me the set list. I kept asking about Airport, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-music","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887666,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887665\/revisions\/573887666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}