{"id":2099,"date":"2008-09-20T01:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T06:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2008-09-20T01:42:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T06:42:05","slug":"band-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memories\/band-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"BEHOLD THE BLACKBERRIES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Tamara and I geeked out on band memories while chatting tonight and somehow this video came out of it. Our high school band played &#8220;Purgatorio&#8221; (Robert W. Smith) our junior year. (I found the CD and set the song to random pictures of flowers and fruit and the sky; don&#8217;t get too excited about production values.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1771109&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1771109?pg=embed&amp;sec=1771109\">Purgatorio<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user400465?pg=embed&amp;sec=1771109\">Lindsey Turner<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1771109\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeem.com\/feevilmonkey\/music\/h6J9xPjk\/robert_w_smith_the_divine_comedy_ii_purgatorio\/\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s what this piece <i>should<\/i> sound like. I recall having several band practices where it sounded a lot like like this and less like the version above. At the spring concert, people were nervous and the French horns were honky and the oboe a little unstable and the clarinets squeaky (we trombones were perfect, natch). But I&#8217;ll be honest; I&#8217;m pretty amazed that a high school band, much less one I was a part of a decade ago, could produce anything this freaking cool. You can tell by listening to it that it was a fucking hoot to play. Coming next? <i>The Ascension<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Tamara and I geeked out on band memories while chatting tonight and somehow this video came out of it. Our high school band played &#8220;Purgatorio&#8221; (Robert W. Smith) our junior year. (I found the CD and set the song to random pictures of flowers and fruit and the sky; don&#8217;t get too excited about production values.) Purgatorio from Lindsey Turner on Vimeo. Here&#8216;s what this piece should sound like. I recall having several&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,46,202],"tags":[532,2168,534,533],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-music","category-videos","tag-band","tag-music","tag-purgatorio","tag-symphony"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-xR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}