{"id":6522,"date":"2011-11-02T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2012-03-31T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T21:06:59","slug":"intravenous-klezmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/intravenous-klezmer\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRAVENOUS KLEZMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Have you read<\/strong><\/span> any good klezmer liner notes lately?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>How about some bad notes? . . .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe drummer has appeared in duo and trip [sic] settings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cThis is<\/strong><\/span> what happens when Rumshinsky\u2019s Theatre Bulgar is feed [sic] through Quincy Jones talking about Count Basie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne[sic] the other side of the hall, a <em>zedeh <\/em>and <em>bobe<\/em> will spin in skeletal outlines the remembered steps of a <em>tantz <\/em>(dance) that their parents taught them \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/liner-notes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6535\" title=\"liner notes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/liner-notes1-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/liner-notes1-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/liner-notes1.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Here is the<\/strong><\/span> solution.\u00a0 Hire Klezmer Guy Ink to write your liner notes.<\/p>\n<p>If you submit to Klezmer Guy Ink, please follow these guidelines:<\/p>\n<p>1. Don\u2019t name your tunes.\u00a0 We\u2019ll do that. \u00a0\u00a0Your first cut will be \u201cKlezmer Lovin\u2019,\u201d \u201cHymie&#8217;s Town,\u201d or \u201cRomanian Shock #1.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019ll decide.<\/p>\n<p>2. Don\u2019t name your album.\u00a0 We do that.\u00a0 The choices: <em>Intravenous Klezmer<\/em>,<em> 13 Jewish Hummingbirds <\/em>and <em>Black Curly Hair. \u00a0<\/em>We pick.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>3. We hire<\/strong><\/span> world-class musicians to punch up your sound. Our stable includes Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg and Eric Carmen (of the Raspberries).<\/p>\n<p>4. We\u2019ll come up with a pseudonym for a musician in your band.\u00a0 This makes your album mysterious and more marketable.\u00a0 \u00a0Choices: M. Rogue Gemini, Hy Lowe and Jewboy Fuller. \u00a0We pick.<\/p>\n<p>5. Your bio is tweaked.\u00a0 Even if you\u2019re a <em>nebbish<\/em> from Long Island, you visited your grandmother in Brooklyn at least once, right?\u00a0 You\u2019re from Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>6. We\u2019ll get you<\/strong><\/span> impressive music-school credentials.\u00a0 We work with the Broadway School of Music.*<\/p>\n<p>For your CD cover, we use red.\u00a0 Why not?<\/p>\n<p>Give Klezmer Guy Ink a call.\u00a0 Some of our clients have been somewhat satisfied.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n<small><small>*Broadway School of Music, 5415 Broadway Avenue, Cleveland.<\/small><\/small><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">A version of this post appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/zeek.forward.com\/articles\/117129\/\"><em>Zeek<\/em>,<\/a> the online \u201cJewish journal of thought and culture,&#8221; on December 21, 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you read any good klezmer liner notes lately? Probably not. How about some bad notes? . . . \u201cThe drummer has appeared in duo and trip [sic] settings.\u201d \u201cThis is what happens when Rumshinsky\u2019s Theatre Bulgar is feed [sic] through Quincy Jones talking about Count Basie.\u201d \u201cOne[sic] the other side of the hall, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8971,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}