{"id":363,"date":"2007-01-16T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T08:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:08:24","slug":"thomas-dolby-michael-brecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Dolby &#038; Michael Brecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI have always enjoyed Thomas Dolby&#8217;s music and periodically delve into his blog to have a look at what he is up to.  Tomorrow sees the release of a bonus last episode of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasdolby.com\/soleinhabitant\/\">&#8216;extra material&#8217; video podcasts<\/a> which were culled from his recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasdolby.com\/tdtour.html\">Sole Inhabitant tour<\/a> footage.  Although I don&#8217;t have a video iPod, viewing the videos on the iBook gave a nice peak into Dolby&#8217;s live shows, offering updated versions of earlier hits and the back story behind the lyrics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn one of those quirks that occur when blogging, checking the link to Dolby&#8217;s blog took me to his latest post, in which he mourns the passing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrecker.com\/\">Michael Brecker<\/a>.  Along with his brother, Randy, Brecker made up one of the best brass sections of the last fifty years, a fact borne out by his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbreckerliverecordings.com\/Tijdelijk\/Brecker%20sideman%20disco.pdf\">713 entry discography<\/a>.  While never a big fan, I first heard Brecker on Joni Mitchell&#8217;s 1980 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadows_and_Light\">Shadows and Light<\/a> live album and have always enjoyed hearing him play.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/thomas dolby\" rel=\"tag\">thomas dolby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/michael brecker\" rel=\"tag\">michael brecker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sole inhabitant\" rel=\"tag\">sole inhabitant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/electronic music\" rel=\"tag\">electronic music<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always enjoyed Thomas Dolby&#8217;s music and periodically delve into his blog to have a look at what he is up to. Tomorrow sees the release of a bonus last episode of his &#8216;extra material&#8217; video podcasts which were culled from his recent Sole Inhabitant tour footage. Although I don&#8217;t have a video iPod, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-music","category-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893093,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/216893093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}