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The bride<\/strong><\/span> asked if Yiddishe Cup would play quietly. I said, \u201cGreat! I\u2019m in two Facebook groups, \u2018I Hate Cilantro\u2019 and \u2018I Hate Loud Music.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n I attended another wedding — as a guest — where the band blasted like they were at Noriega\u2019s palace.\u00a0Then a DJ in an adjoining\u00a0room (behind a party-center folding partition) blasted like he was shooting a cannon.<\/p>\n There were about 225 guests at that wedding. I was the only one bugged? Apparently. My wife thought the band was terrific. She said, \u201cThey are like a magnet, pulling me to the dance floor.\u201d (My wife was a like magnet pulling me to the dance floor.)<\/p>\n The band had no keyboard player or bass player. The lead singer cued backing tracks on his laptop. The drummer faked playing a lot.<\/p>\n My late <\/span><\/strong><\/span>rabbi,<\/strong> Michael Hecht, could have been the president of the \u201cI Hate Loud Music\u201d society. Every time Yiddishe Cup played at his shul, Congregation Beth Am, he would ask us to turn it down. One time my sound guy\/pianist said, \u201cI can\u2019t turn it down any more. The sound system is completely off.\u201d<\/p>\n Rabbi Hecht’s understudy is me. Hey, turn it down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bride asked if Yiddishe Cup would play quietly. I said, \u201cGreat! I\u2019m in two Facebook groups, \u2018I Hate Cilantro\u2019 and \u2018I Hate Loud Music.\u2019\u201d I attended another wedding — as a guest — where the band blasted like they were at Noriega\u2019s palace.\u00a0Then a DJ in an adjoining\u00a0room (behind a party-center folding partition) blasted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-sports-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984","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=29984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29995,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions\/29995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}