{"id":3520,"date":"2024-12-13T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:10:44","slug":"big-bad-voodoo-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"Big Bad Voodoo Daddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 30 years after I first said I wanted to, we went to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbvd.com\/\">Big Bad Voodoo Daddy<\/a> live in concert. It was billed as a &#8220;Christmas Concert&#8221; but it was definitely NOT just Christmas music.\u00a0 I am still riding high on this.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3519\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241212-Big-Bad-Voodoo-Daddy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3519\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241212-Big-Bad-Voodoo-Daddy.jpg\" alt=\"setting up stage for big bad voodoo daddy\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241212-Big-Bad-Voodoo-Daddy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241212-Big-Bad-Voodoo-Daddy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241212-Big-Bad-Voodoo-Daddy-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241212-Big-Bad-Voodoo-Daddy-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final stage prep for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. A technician was doing&#8230; something&#8230; with the bass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BBVD does a great job of recreating the look and sound of swing and big-band jazz.\u00a0 They played a mix of Christmas, old standards, and original music.\u00a0 I really dug their cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KTs1YBdcO0Q\">Minnie the Moocher<\/a>, IMHO it&#8217;s as good as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE\">Cab Colloway&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Things I learned today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They been playing together, with the original line-up, for 31 years and they <strong>still<\/strong> look like they&#8217;re having fun.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re only slightly older than me.<\/li>\n<li>That the Lexington, MA area crowd clearly didn&#8217;t know what kind of band they were buying tickets to see and were disappointingly low-energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A little bit on that last point: the band was superb and carried some real energy.\u00a0 Their showmanship was on point!\u00a0 I&#8217;m sad that the crowd was overall on the geriatric side and people were polite but not really feeling it.\u00a0 I think they were expecting a slow Christmas show, and this was definitely not that.<\/p>\n<p>Megh and I decided that we&#8217;re going to take swing lessons and catch next year&#8217;s concert.\u00a0 We want to get up in the aisle and start dancing to fight back against the old fogies.\u00a0 The band deserves it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 30 years after I first said I wanted to, we went to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy live in concert. It was billed as a &#8220;Christmas Concert&#8221; but it was definitely NOT just Christmas music.\u00a0 I am still riding high on this. BBVD does a great job of recreating the look and sound of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Bad Voodoo Daddy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[907,292,908],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-reviews","tag-big-bad-voodoo-daddy","tag-concert","tag-lexington-ma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-UM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}