{"id":2639,"date":"2008-11-03T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T02:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2008-11-03T21:28:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T02:28:36","slug":"reunions-db-yes-kinks-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/reunions-db-yes-kinks-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunions &#8211; dB (yes), Kinks (maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to catch <a href=\"http:\/\/thedbs.com\/\">the dBs<\/a> reunion on Saturday at a <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/holdenrichards\/2996477683\/\">get out the vote rally at the Johnson Center for Undergrad Excellence<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Stamey\">Chris Stamey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Holsapple\">Peter Hosapple<\/a> backed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitch_Easter\">Mitch Easter<\/a> on bass and Will Rigby on drums. I first saw the frontmen and perhaps Mitch as the Sneakers then the H-Bombs then the dBs.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the reformed dBs reminded me that I need to digitize my vinyl of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedbs.com\/discography\/albumr_sfd.html\">&#8220;Re-precussions&#8221; and &#8220;Stands for Decibels&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/theater_arts\/exhibitionist\/\">Boston Globe writer Geoff Edgers<\/a> writes to tell us of his mid-life quest to reunite the Kinks. To that end, Geoff sends a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.emerson.edu\/students\/b\/bradford_wilde\/kinkssizzle.mov\">this trailer for a documentary of his efforts<\/a>. He gets help, so far, from Sting, Robin Hitchcock, Paul Weller, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zooey_Deschanel\">Zooey Deschanel<\/a> and others. <\/p>\n<p>I love Geoff&#8217;s banjo\/guitar duet with Weller and his vocal Duet with Sting.  Hope to hear the Kinks together soon. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mosQ3dp0pUY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mosQ3dp0pUY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to catch the dBs reunion on Saturday at a get out the vote rally at the Johnson Center for Undergrad Excellence. Chris Stamey and Peter Hosapple backed by Mitch Easter on bass and Will Rigby on drums. I first saw the frontmen and perhaps Mitch as the Sneakers then the H-Bombs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}