{"id":37,"date":"2006-07-19T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-07-19T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T15:58:29","slug":"spontaneity-bottled-for-your-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Spontaneity, Bottled for your Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, it seems that the leader of our <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=4\">Friday Night Jam<\/a> group decided to secretly record the dozen or so of us.  He gave us a CD last week, and the results are surprising!  For one, I&#8217;m singing <em>really<\/em> out of tune on the one song I lead&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t have been so sloppy if I knew I was being memorialized!  <\/p>\n<p>The really great track, however, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-bean.com\/dav\/sussman\/music\/Friday%20Night%20Jam\/FreebornMan.mp3\">Freeborn Man<\/a>.  It&#8217;s just so much fun to listen to.  Straight up bluegrass, not too fast or slow&#8230;. seven minutes of selfish giddy music.  The song is led by one of our excellent electric guitar players,and he really <strong>leads<\/strong> the song.  He calls on people to solo (me, a mando player, another electric player), and even does this great &#8220;build up&#8221; from drums and bass to full ensemble.  I love the sheer joy in this performance.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not even too ashamed of my banjo playing:  you can hear me keeping a steady syncopated beat all the way through.  I do a short solo near the beginning, and a longer one about 5 minutes into the recording.  Nothing stellar, but at least I&#8217;m comfortable with the limited improv.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You can download the mp3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-bean.com\/dav\/sussman\/music\/Friday%20Night%20Jam\/FreebornMan.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, it seems that the leader of our Friday Night Jam group decided to secretly record the dozen or so of us. He gave us a CD last week, and the results are surprising! For one, I&#8217;m singing really out of tune on the one song I lead&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banjo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}