{"id":30175,"date":"2022-11-30T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30175"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:45:08","slug":"insult-a-band-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/30\/insult-a-band-here\/","title":{"rendered":"INSULT A BAND HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several musicians<\/strong><\/span> in my band freaked out when a critic described\u00a0Yiddishe Cup’s Klezmerized<\/em> recording as \u201cschizophrenic.\u201d The reviewer said a ton of nice stuff about the recording and then noted we were schizophrenic because we attempted so many different styles.<\/p>\n

“Schizophrenic” — the word — was all the band members could think about. Grow up. You need the skin of a rhino to be a performer. Everybody is a critic, and if you aren’t a critic, here are some tips to make you one:<\/p>\n

The best way to knee-cap a jazz group: \u201cThey don\u2019t swing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A blues band: \u201cNo soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

A klezmer<\/strong> <\/span>band: \u201cDorks in vests.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I have an essay in the Cleveland Plain Deal<\/em>er today, “Who’s your favorite band?” <\/a>
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Several musicians in my band freaked out when a critic described\u00a0Yiddishe Cup’s Klezmerized recording as \u201cschizophrenic.\u201d The reviewer said a ton of nice stuff about the recording and then noted we were schizophrenic because we attempted so many different styles. “Schizophrenic” — the word — was all the band members could think about. Grow up. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30175","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=30175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30244,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30175\/revisions\/30244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}