{"id":1742,"date":"2009-07-30T23:46:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-07-30T23:46:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:46:57","slug":"progressive-nation-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/30\/progressive-nation-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Nation 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/blogimages\/prognation.jpg\" alt=\"Prog Nation\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" hspace=\"10\" \/>So awhile back I bought a ticket to the local date of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivenation2009.com\/\" title=\"Progressive Nation\">Progressive Nation<\/a> tour. My buddy and band mate Jeff talked me into it. On one level, I didn\u2019t need much convincing: near the top of the bill was <strong>Zappa Plays Zappa<\/strong>; I\u2019d seen ZPZ a couple years earlier and was wowed by their performance (and I\u2019d seen <strong>Frank Zappa<\/strong> in concert twice back in the day, and I own the first 50 or so of Frank&#8217;s LPs on vinyl, plus hundreds of FZ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/collection\/frank_zappa.shtml\" title=\"The Collection: Frank Zappa\">bootlegs<\/a>, so I should know). But the other acts were <strong>Dream Theater<\/strong> \u2013 a band I had never really checked out \u2013 and a couple Swedish doom metal bands. Yikes, I thought; I\u2019m <em>definitely <\/em>not a metal fan. But pay my $40 I did, confident in the knowledge that at least ZPZ would give me my money\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p>A couple months later the date rolled around. The Swedish groups were dropped from the bill (sadly, their label went belly-up) and they were replaced by two other groups I also didn\u2019t know. It was an interesting evening. More soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So awhile back I bought a ticket to the local date of the Progressive Nation tour. My buddy and band mate Jeff talked me into it. On one level, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-shows","category-review","cat-44-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}