{"id":491,"date":"2008-10-25T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=491"},"modified":"2008-10-25T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:41:55","slug":"weird-al-live-in-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Weird Al, live in 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/concerts.wolfgangsvault.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfgang&#8217;s Vault<\/a> is awesome, and I&#8217;ve heard some really great recordings of old concerts (look for the 1988 Prince&#8217;s Trust on there). But I didn&#8217;t expect <a href=\"http:\/\/concerts.wolfgangsvault.com\/dt\/weird-al-yankovic-concert\/20051375-8502.html\" target=\"_blank\">this chestnut from 1984<\/a>, where Weird Al, touring between <em>In 3D<\/em> and <em>Dare to be Stupid<\/em>, does songs he never recorded in the studio, including the ultimate Billy Joel dis and a surprisingly filthy take on Jim Croce. It&#8217;s also fantastic to hear &#8220;Polkas on 45&#8221; in front of an audience that has no idea what&#8217;s coming next. Every 15 seconds you can hear a cheer go up. (And when I was a kid, I never got that &#8220;Mr. Popeil&#8221; was a B-52s homage &#8212; it was just a funny song about all those TV commercials I saw between afternoon cartoons. I obviously get it now!)<\/p>\n<p>Just another little bit of inspiration as I get my musical head together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfgang&#8217;s Vault is awesome, and I&#8217;ve heard some really great recordings of old concerts (look for the 1988 Prince&#8217;s Trust on there). But I didn&#8217;t expect this chestnut from 1984, where Weird Al, touring between In 3D and Dare to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=491\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}