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The band rarely plays for famous people. <\/strong><\/span> There is nobody famous around here unless you count Harvey Pekar, the comic book guy.\u00a0 Take that back . . . LeBron James.<\/p>\n Once we played for the president of Tulane University. \u00a0At another bar mitzvah, Flory Jagoda<\/a>, the queen of Sephardic music, was there.\u00a0 At another simcha<\/em> (celebration), we ran into Max Herman<\/a>, a trumpeter who used to play with Mickey Katz in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Nobody has heard of these people. That’s the Rust Belt.\u00a0 We’re OK with it.\u00a0 What’s our option?\u00a0 Move to Florida?<\/p>\n We like it here.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n At private parties, we’re asked if we travel.\u00a0 Will we come to Minneapolis? \u00a0Yes, pay us 7 grand and we’re there.\u00a0 These folks never come through; they’re just caught up in the excitement of the party.\u00a0 Well, one time we missed a for-real gig.\u00a0 That was from the frozen chicken king of California.\u00a0 A Mr. Zacky.\u00a0 He saw us at a wedding in Akron and asked us to play his wedding in L.A. \u00a0\u00a0Too bad we were already booked.<\/p>\n —-<\/p>\n Tomorrow:<\/span><\/p>\n LARGE NUMBERS . . . How to beat the Dow Jones.\u00a0 Gamble.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The band rarely plays for famous people. There is nobody famous around here unless you count Harvey Pekar, the comic book guy.\u00a0 Take that back . . . LeBron James. Once we played for the president of Tulane University. \u00a0At another bar mitzvah, Flory Jagoda, the queen of Sephardic music, was there.\u00a0 At another simcha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pekar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8623,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}