{"id":347,"date":"2008-03-16T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=347"},"modified":"2008-03-16T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T04:22:00","slug":"hamell-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Hamell on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a HREF=\"http:\/\/hamell-on-trial.livejournal.com\/\">Hamell on Trial<\/a> at <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mississippistation.com\/\">Mississippi Studios<\/a> Sunday night. I have only recently been introduced to his music, and this was my first time seeing him perform.<br \/>\nIt was like Anton Levay (aww, c&#8217;mon, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anton_Szandor_LaVey\" target=wikiPedia>look it up<\/a>.) dropped religion and picked up an axe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/MiscBlog\/photo#5178576033435789762\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/brauhze\/R93_dxNKqcI\/AAAAAAAAAyA\/_ZMbdMaPIws\/s800\/levay.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have thought that a 50-year-old bald guy with an acoustic (amplified) guitar would be considered &#8220;rock&#8221;. But wow, he just shredded that guitar, creating a cudgel of sound.<br \/>\nHis energy and enthusiasm and sharp, wicked sense of humor were infectious. <\/p>\n<p>A hell of a show; I enjoyed it hugely, and would happily go see him again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Hamell on Trial at Mississippi Studios Sunday night. I have only recently been introduced to his music, and this was my first time seeing him perform. It was&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=347\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,43,48],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-pdx","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}