{"id":13006,"date":"2012-04-14T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13006"},"modified":"2012-04-14T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T13:26:13","slug":"mystery-date-revealed-butter-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-butter-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date Revealed: Butter 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a bridge between 2 weeks&#8217; threads, may I offer a little butter? And not in the Marlon Brando\/Maria Schneider way, although I&#8217;m sure the band was referencing that classic film.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/mystery-date-33\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mystery Date<\/a><\/em> was performed by <strong>Butter 08<\/strong>, a New York band who released one self-titled album in 1996 on the Beastie Boy&#8217;s Grand Royal label. Members included Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto, Russell Simins of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Rick Lee of Skeleton Key, and Mike Mills, graphic designer of album covers and later, a director of film (<em>Thumbsucker<\/em> and <em>Beginners<\/em>). But the mystery guest on the <em>Mystery Date<\/em> track, &#8220;It&#8217;s the Rage,&#8221; was <strong>Sean Lennon<\/strong> performing the keyboard solo. He was dating Yuka Honda at the time, and when Cibo Matto toured, played the bass.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any Butter 08 live performances, but here is their one and only music video (sans Sean):<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WweOg2krMPE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a bridge between 2 weeks&#8217; threads, may I offer a little butter? And not in the Marlon Brando\/Maria Schneider way, although I&#8217;m sure the band was referencing that classic film. This week&#8217;s Mystery Date was performed by Butter 08, a New York band who released one self-titled album in 1996 on the Beastie Boy&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-butter-08\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}