{"id":25494,"date":"2018-02-14T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25494"},"modified":"2018-02-14T09:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:11:29","slug":"on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/14\/on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"ON TOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Yiddishe Cup<\/span><\/strong> did a month-long tour. We had the bus, the lighting guy, the sound guy and a tour manager. We even had a masseuse. We had hot meals. We had screaming fans. But it wasn\u2019t about us. We weren\u2019t even billed as \u201cYiddishe Cup.\u201d We were just \u201cCup\u201d\u00a0 &#8212; a somewhat amorphous, competent band of old Jews.<\/p>\n<p>I jogged a lot during that tour to keep my sanity. The young fans drove me nuts. We sold just 10 Yiddishe Cup CDs, total. Not our crowd, I\u2019ll admit.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>We were<\/strong><\/span> the \u201csupport\u201d band, and we supported the star well. The idea of a pop icon touring with a bunch of old Jews was novel, and it worked. But I wouldn\u2019t do it again.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themusicsettlement.org\/calendar\/2018\/03\/03\/funk-a-deli-formerly-known-as-yiddishe-cup-bop-stop\">Funk a Deli <\/a>(formerly Yiddishe Cup) is at the <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themusicsettlement.org\/calendar\/2018\/03\/03\/funk-a-deli-formerly-known-as-yiddishe-cup-bop-stop\">Bop Stop<\/a> 8 p.m. Sat., March 3. $20.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"funk a deli\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-768x572.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-1024x763.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">And please check out my<a href=\"http:\/\/beltmag.com\/eulogy-cleveland-tenants-organization\/\"> essay<\/a> about Cleveland real estate at Belt Mag. The essay was posted the other day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yiddishe Cup did a month-long tour. We had the bus, the lighting guy, the sound guy and a tour manager. We even had a masseuse. We had hot meals. We had screaming fans. But it wasn\u2019t about us. We weren\u2019t even billed as \u201cYiddishe Cup.\u201d We were just \u201cCup\u201d\u00a0 &#8212; a somewhat amorphous, competent band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494","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=25494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25502,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494\/revisions\/25502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}