{"id":1505,"date":"2012-02-22T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:24:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:24:54","slug":"play-and-play-and-play-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"play and play and play some more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mantra: always be gigging. When you get in the flow of playing out a lot, that&#8217;s when the performances get good. No one thing makes your music good. It&#8217;s about the flow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m playing the grocery store again next Saturday, this time with Paul McCue on trumpet and Rolf Wilkinson on guitar and singing. It&#8217;s the same chain, Andrononico&#8217;s, this time in San Anselmo instead of North Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/San-Anselmo-Event-2-25-12FB-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/San-Anselmo-Event-2-25-12FB-3-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"San Anselmo Event 2-25-12\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday I&#8217;m playing a cafe in Berkeley called Nomad. I&#8217;ll be doing dobro and mandolin with a bluesy singer named James Byfield.<\/p>\n<p>After that, Friday night March 9 at a bar in Alameda called the Frog and Fiddle. James and I will be joined by our friends Huntley and Cal on standup bass and violin. Here&#8217;s a sample recording (with bad sound) from a rehearsal: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Z8uOmfxLOg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next after that is March 25 &#8211; Paul and I will play at the Oakland marathon. There will be an endless stream of exhausted but exhilarated people going by. It&#8217;s a morning gig out in the sunshine. No money but the runners whoop and wave. It&#8217;s fun and I get a tiny bit better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mantra: always be gigging. When you get in the flow of playing out a lot, that&#8217;s when the performances get good. No one thing makes your music good. It&#8217;s about the flow. I&#8217;m playing the grocery store again next Saturday, this time with Paul McCue on trumpet and Rolf Wilkinson on guitar and singing. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}