{"id":417,"date":"2007-10-29T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-29T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T21:00:45","slug":"curry-pinback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Curry pinback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Beverly woke up wanting Curry Chicken.  So &#8211; a few hours later, some veggie chopping by me, and slaving over a hot stove by her &#8211; we had Curry Chicken and some other dishes.  The Curry chicken was great and I even got to take some home for dinner later this week. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlorenzlong.com\/currychicken.jpg\" width=400 height=300 border=0 alt=''><\/p>\n<p>After dinner we played a few matches of tennis (after telling some court-bullies to stuff it) before going to see Pinback play at the Wiltern.  Beverly got dressed in jeans and I told her it would be warm so she switched to a sleeveless shirt and skirt. <\/p>\n<p>It was cold.  Very cold up on the balcony.  <\/p>\n<p>And Pinback isn&#8217;t that good live.  So &#8211; I was 0-2 for the night.  <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know how Pinback would turn out.  They are a two-man group that does almost everything in the studio with multi tracking and heavy production. For the live show they brought a second guitar player, drummer, and keyboard player.  Neither of the boys can sing that well live &#8211; and all the songs lose the atmospheric funk so evident on the albums.  We did get to see however that Armistead Burwell Smith IV is quite a bassist &#8211; and his bass playing style is what makes up the majority of the melody for all Pinback tunes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Beverly woke up wanting Curry Chicken. So &#8211; a few hours later, some veggie chopping by me, and slaving over a hot stove by her &#8211; we had Curry Chicken and some other dishes. The Curry chicken was great and I even got to take some home for dinner later this week. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}