{"id":5346,"date":"2014-02-11T18:08:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2014-02-12T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:19:11","slug":"pirate-walks-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/pirate-walks-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pirate Walks Into a Bar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I did my first shows of 2014, and I couldn&#8217;t have been blessed to start the year off on a better note (pun intentional): Two house concerts in the lower Sierras, along with a live interview on <a href=\"kvmr.org\" target=\"_blank\">KVMR radio<\/a> as part of  Wesley Robertson&#8217;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; and Stompin'&#8221; show. Busy weekend, lots of driving around, but also lots of fun playing with Ken Rabiroff and hanging out with good pals at two shows totally geared towards a listening audience. (Seriously can&#8217;t ask for more than that.)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;anchor&#8221; gig &#8211; music buzzword for a show that covers much of the cost of a trip and allows you to book other things around it &#8211; was in Auburn CA at the home of our friends Rob and Kim. They&#8217;ve been thinking of doing a house concert, so I called in a favor. They put together a big party, and we got to play for lots of new people. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8mmE8w5Hd0?list=UUtzseDzL8qakcgMxy03e_eA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the night was finding out our friends Jon &#8220;Lou&#8221; Lewis and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimdyarband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Dyar<\/a> drove all the way from Redding for this show. An inside joke in our close tribe is this wonderful pirate joke that we ask &#8220;Lou&#8221; to tell whenever there&#8217;s a new audience. We were finally able to capture it here, on video, for the interwebs and posterity.<\/p>\n<p>I still laugh every time I hear it, so enjoy. Jim Dyar will get a little real estate here on the blog, as well, in a few weeks. He and I both started playing and writing at about the same time, so we&#8217;re constantly checking in on each other and talking shop. Jim just finished his third CD, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/jimdyarband\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rembrandts on Red Walls&#8221;<\/a>. He&#8217;ll be featured soon on an episode of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\">Songs and Stories&#8221; podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fpirate-walks-bar%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I did my first shows of 2014, and I couldn&#8217;t have been blessed to start the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}