{"id":28669,"date":"2018-12-10T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28669"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:48:40","slug":"parquet-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28669","title":{"rendered":"Parquet Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, while he was down in NC for a visit, I played some Parquet Courts for my dad, and he was immediately hooked. So, when they announced a December show in NYC, he floated the idea that he, my brother and I should all go to see them. So, that's what we all did.<\/p>\n<p>My brother already lives there, and he generously put us up, and put up with us drunken tourists, for two nights. Dad lives upstate and drove down to meet us.<\/p>\n<p>We missed the opening band - Sun Ra Archestra - since we didn't think an NYC show would actually start at 8. But it did. We go to see them walk off, though.<\/p>\n<p>PQ were exactly what I was hoping for. They were energetic and tight when they needed to be, but perfectly sloppy otherwise. Set list was great, if short: lots of stuff from their fantastic new album, and good stuff from the others. No \"Stoned And Starving\", however.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs and I were mightily impressed by the bass player. I rarely listen to bass players on records (mostly because my ear buds do a crappy job with bass frequencies). But live, his contributions stood out. And I began to suspect that he might be the key to their sound.<\/p>\n<p>I also had had too many vodka-tonics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28673\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_6470.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_6470.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_6470-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_6470-624x519.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, while he was down in NC for a visit, I played some Parquet Courts for my dad, and he was immediately hooked. So, when they announced a December show in NYC, he floated the idea that he, my brother and I should all go to see them. So, that's what we all did. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669","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=28669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28676,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669\/revisions\/28676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}