{"id":91,"date":"2005-06-09T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2005-06-09T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T22:32:00","slug":"glen-phillips-largo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Glen Phillips @ Largo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Mrs. Elbeno and I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenphillips.com\/\">Glen Phillips<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillsobule.com\/\">Jill Sobule<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largo-la.com\/\">Largo<\/a>. Funnily enough, Largo is almost directly opposite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangstudio.com\/\">Bang.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a good evening. The food was passable (although that was <i>not<\/i> penne) and the atmosphere was intimate. I would have preferred a little more light to eat by; as it was I used my water glass to focus the candlelight into a feeble beam of plate illumination. The music was excellent. Jill started off, and her songs are funny, upbeat, and urbane; sprinkled with detours and audience involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Glen followed at about 9.30pm and started out with two songs about death! One upbeat, one not. He has a great mic presence and a very distinctive singing voice, and he comes across as very thoughtful and tolerant. Much of his in-between conversation was about upbringing, religion, parenthood and politics, but he never descends into overt anger or bitterness &#8211; mostly he seems tinged with sadness about the state of the world. In between songs he constantly tuned his guitar while talking to the audience &#8211; even though most of the people present probably couldn&apos;t tell if one string was a quarter-tone off. I guess he&apos;s a perfectionist about performing.<\/p>\n<p>On the way out, we bought two CDs of his that were on offer: <i>Live at Largo<\/i> (RIAA-safe) and <i>Winter Pays for Summer<\/i> (RIAA-tainted, but hopefully no money goes to the RIAA from concert sales).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Mrs. Elbeno and I saw Glen Phillips and Jill Sobule at Largo. Funnily enough, Largo is almost directly opposite Bang. It was a good evening. The food was passable (although that was not penne) and the atmosphere was intimate. I would have preferred a little more light to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}