{"id":432,"date":"2009-07-15T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2012-03-31T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T21:17:19","slug":"yiddish-soldiers-in-the-trenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/yiddish-soldiers-in-the-trenches\/","title":{"rendered":"YIDDISH SOLDIER IN THE TRENCHES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve forgotten my clarinet.<\/strong><\/span> My third drummer \u2014 long gone \u2014 once showed up without sticks.\u00a0 He cut up some curtain dowel rods to use.<\/p>\n<p>Gigging is all about not forgetting stuff. \u00a0A band is like a platoon going into battle: mics, cables, axes, tune books, jackets, instrument stands, capos, neck straps, amps, monitors, lights.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>When I forgot my clarinet, I played a lot <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">harmonica<\/span> and clapped.\u00a0 Thirty minutes into that gig, the rabbi asked me, &#8220;Where&#8217;s your flute?&#8221; (He meant &#8220;clarinet.&#8221;\u00a0 Some old-time Orthodox rabbis don&#8217;t know their musical instruments.)\u00a0 I said I was saving my flute.<\/p>\n<p>My singer&#8217;s wife drove my axe to the gig \u2014 about 30 miles one way.\u00a0 I paid her.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">&#8212;-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">1<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\"> of 2 posts for 7\/15\/09.\u00a0 Please see post below too.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve forgotten my clarinet. My third drummer \u2014 long gone \u2014 once showed up without sticks.\u00a0 He cut up some curtain dowel rods to use. Gigging is all about not forgetting stuff. \u00a0A band is like a platoon going into battle: mics, cables, axes, tune books, jackets, instrument stands, capos, neck straps, amps, monitors, lights. [&hellip;]<\/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-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8991,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/8991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}