{"id":14741,"date":"2012-08-05T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2012-08-05T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:13:12","slug":"summertime-and-the-concerts-are-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/summertime-and-the-concerts-are-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime\u2026and the Concerts Are Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GD1wouCyuBU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Band &#8212; Circa 1995 &#8212; Free?<\/p>\n<p>Street festivals, county fairs, ethnic celebrations&#8230;every weekend I scour local events calendars to see if there is anything remotely interesting to see around DC, especially for free.  (Oh look, Weezer is playing a free show at a Microsoft store in Arlington, VA on Aug. 11th!)<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, I saw The Bangles (who are still keeping it together) at a county fair.  I&#8217;ve seen Al Green (fantastic), Joan Jett, Kansas (umm), Soul Asylum, Gin Blossoms, Etta James, Old 97s (at an Italian Fest in Chicago!) &#8212; some good, some bad.<\/p>\n<p>But the most memorable free show was seeing the 1990s version of the Band at a Taste of DC festival&#8230;circa 1994 or so.  They sounded great, Danko was there, and there they were playing in front of about 500 people at some side stage.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of season, what&#8217;s the best show you&#8217;ve ever seen for free?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Band &#8212; Circa 1995 &#8212; Free? Street festivals, county fairs, ethnic celebrations&#8230;every weekend I scour local events calendars to see if there is anything remotely interesting to see around DC, especially for free. (Oh look, Weezer is playing a free show at a Microsoft store in Arlington, VA on Aug. 11th!) Last summer, I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/summertime-and-the-concerts-are-free\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[24,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741"}],"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\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}