{"id":1142,"date":"2007-03-29T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2007-03-29T23:01:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T07:01:49","slug":"farewell-to-the-rheos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/farewell-to-the-rheos\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Rheos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little marker to note the passing of a great Canadian institution. \u00a0 Tomorrow night, in Massey Hall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rheostatics.ca\/\">The Rheostatics<\/a> play their last gig. \u00a0 They&#8217;ve been at it for over 20 years and it&#8217;s coming to an end. \u00a0 If, like me, you never saw them live, you can download some of their shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rheostaticslive.com\/index2.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Writing today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20070329.RHEO29\/TPStory\/?query=bidini\">in the Globe and Mail<\/a> about their career, guitarist and hockey writer extraordinaire Dave Bidini explained the band&#8217;s ethos succinctly:&#8221;&#8230;We were four satellites who got a long and if you listened closely or saw us on a good night, you got bit.&#8221; \u00a0 Yup. \u00a0 Still one of my all time favourite road trip bands. \u00a0 Nothing like 2067 playing at full volume to keep me awake as the miles tick past on northern Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks guys, for the great music and the great take on what our country is all about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tags]rheostatics, dave bidini[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little marker to note the passing of a great Canadian institution. \u00a0 Tomorrow night, in Massey Hall, The Rheostatics play their last gig. \u00a0 They&#8217;ve been at it for over 20 years and it&#8217;s coming to an end. \u00a0 If, like me, you never saw them live, you can download some of their shows here. Writing today in the Globe and Mail about their career, guitarist and hockey writer extraordinaire Dave Bidini explained the band&#8217;s ethos succinctly:&#8221;&#8230;We were four satellites who got a long and if you listened closely or saw us on a good night, you got bit.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-iq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}