{"id":381,"date":"2008-07-17T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=381"},"modified":"2008-07-17T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T17:59:38","slug":"amazing-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e3summit08.com\/login\/login.aspx?redirect=%2findex.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">E3<\/a> yesterday. I was supposed to leave on a late afternoon flight but I was implored by Jeff Casteneda to stay overnight and not miss the <em>Rock Band 2<\/em> party. He just said that I could not miss it, particularly me. We&#8217;d talked about music at length when I was doing the <em>Rock Band<\/em> cover story so I know he knows my musical tastes. He was very emphatic. So I rearranged my flight for the next morning and planned to pull an all-nighter in the airport, during which I wrote most of a feature.<\/p>\n<p>This was the ticket.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/e3orpheum0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/e3orpheum1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this was the band.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/e3orpheum2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t really see them, but you&#8217;ve heard of them. It&#8217;s the Who.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewho.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">THE Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Townshend has been a huge guitar and songwriting influence on me for years but I had somehow never managed to get my ass to a Who concert. Seeing them in a 2,000-seat venue&#8230;unreal. I had great balcony seats in a small venue and got to enjoy the show with friends from Future. I don&#8217;t think they caught me welling up a few times.<\/p>\n<p>It was worth staying up all night to make it happen, even though I suppose I could have gotten some sleep. I was in the mood to work so it was all good.<\/p>\n<p>You may find photos of me singing or playing fake guitar in pre-show rounds of <em>Rock Band 2<\/em>, but know that they are all falsified in Photoshop and I would never do any of that in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at E3 yesterday. I was supposed to leave on a late afternoon flight but I was implored by Jeff Casteneda to stay overnight and not miss the Rock Band 2 party. He just said that I could not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}