{"id":1381,"date":"2010-01-24T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2010-01-24T07:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T07:30:23","slug":"ram-a-new-dose-of-funk-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Ram A New Dose Of Funk Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq5.jpg\"><br \/>\n29th October 2009: <b>The Ramanados<\/b> live at UrbanAttic, Capsquare KL!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq1.jpg\"><br \/>\nBut first, <b>DJ Dizzle Fizzo<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq2.jpg\"><br \/>\nIt was Stevie&#8217;s birthday and guess what he got, a most sweet Fender Stratocaster!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq12.jpg\"><br \/>\nHe immediately got to rocking with it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq7.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe night was filled with a lot of funky covers; <b>Jamiroquai &#8211; Love Foolosophy<\/b>, <b>Red Hot Chili Peppers &#8211; Havana Affair<\/b>, <b>Incubus &#8211; Pardon Me<\/b> and the ever bouncy <b>Red Hot Chili Peppers &#8211; Purple Stain<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they have originals like <b>Gypsy Girl<\/b>. But I am glad for the night celebrated the Red Hot Chili Peppers and other like-minded sounds because very few bands actually do so!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq3.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe second set had not-too-early Incubus, with <b>Stellar<\/b>, <b>Wish You Were Here<\/b> and <b>The Warmth<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq6.jpg\"><br \/>\nWhen Jared the drummer kinda looks like Chad Smith you know they gotta do more Red Hot Chili Peppers covers like <b>Suck My Kiss<\/b> and <b>Around The World<\/b>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq9.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;this picture reminds me of <b>John Frusciante<\/b> sitting down at Slane Castle playing <b>Under The Bridge<\/b>. Which is what Stevie was doing, too!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq8.jpg\"><br \/>\nCamellia the hitz.fm Cruiser!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq13.jpg\"><br \/>\nI borrowed Jie Qiang&#8217;s <b>Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 EX DG<\/b> for this!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq4.jpg\"><br \/>\nMore covers like <b>Incubus &#8211; Drive<\/b>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq10.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd a big singalong for <b>U2 &#8211; With Or Without You<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq14.jpg\"><br \/>\nAgain, at 12mm on the full-frame Sony A900&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq15.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;<i>Deep inside of a parallel universe&#8230; it&#8217;s getting harder to tell what came first, and!<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq16.jpg\"><br \/>\nYou&#8217;d be surprised to see how many people were singing along to <b>Californication<\/b>-era Red Hot Chili Peppers!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq17.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis reminds me of a picture of <b>Bob Marley<\/b> &#8211; they did his <b>Redemption Song<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq18.jpg\"><br \/>\nSome Indian ditty and <b>Mahesh<\/b> chimes in!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq19.jpg\"><br \/>\nAsh guest drums&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq20.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;while Jared (in the back sings.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq11.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe other covers were <b>Sting &#8211; Walking On The Moon<\/b>, <b>Incubus &#8211; Are You In<\/b>, and their perennial remixes of <b>Oasis<\/b>&#8216; <b>She&#8217;s Electric<\/b> and <b>Wonderwall<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/ramcaq21.jpg\"><br \/>\nGreg and I have this tradition of camwhoring after every gig. The purple tint of this shot just makes us look like the Two-Headed Monster from Sesame Street!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29th October 2009: The Ramanados live at UrbanAttic, Capsquare KL! But first, DJ Dizzle Fizzo! It was Stevie&#8217;s birthday and guess what he got, a most sweet Fender Stratocaster! He immediately got to rocking with it. The night was filled with a lot of funky covers; Jamiroquai &#8211; Love Foolosophy, Red Hot Chili Peppers &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}