{"id":1580,"date":"2007-04-25T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2007-04-25T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T12:54:48","slug":"wolfmother-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1580","title":{"rendered":"Wolfmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw Wolfmother last night, at a little club in Raleigh. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/wolfmother_guitarist2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Canon SD630<\/div>\n<p>They were good, sounded almost identical to the record, but much much louder. Or maybe that's because we were standing in front of the right-side speakers. Hard to say. Hard to think straight, with all this ringing in my ears.<\/p>\n<p>The guitar player's got a great heavy guitar sound. Very Sabbathy. Yum. And he sings all the songs exactly the way he does on the record - which always impresses me, since so many singers shortcut or avoid the tough parts in live vocals - sounding like a combination of Ozzy and Jack White. I think they played one new song, and so everything else was extended versions of stuff from their first (and only) record - makes singing along easy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/wolfmother_bassist2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Canon SD630<\/div>\n<p>I had always thought, based on nothing but my own imagination, that the guitar player was the organ player. That was incorrect; the bass player handles all the organ and effects parts. And now that I know that very important fact, I feel complete.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/wolfmother_bassist1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Canon SD630<\/div>\n<p>The crowd was full of really tall, energetic college kids, and so, there was a mosh pit. I haven't seen one of those in like 15 years. Wolfmother's so <i>retro<\/i>, dude. We bailed a little early, cause, well, it was a frikkin Tuesday night, and all us oldies gotta get up in the morning - and, frankly, if you've heard an hour of Wolfmother, you've heard everything they have to say already. I like 'em, but they're kindof predictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw Wolfmother last night, at a little club in Raleigh. Canon SD630 They were good, sounded almost identical to the record, but much much louder. Or maybe that's because we were standing in front of the right-side speakers. Hard to say. Hard to think straight, with all this ringing in my ears. The guitar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}