{"id":18743,"date":"2013-02-27T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T04:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18743"},"modified":"2016-05-10T08:42:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:42:55","slug":"the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18743","title":{"rendered":"The Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Valentine Moon<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the Band, The Weight. \u00a0One of my favorite bands. \u00a0Up on Cripple Creek. \u00a0The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. \u00a0I Shall Be Released. \u00a0The back up band for Dylan from 1965-1968 when he went on his Electric Tour, they played together until 1976, ending their touring days with the wonderful Martin Scorsese film, The Last Waltz.<\/p>\n<p>Music congeals around it auras and memories, the mental flavors of a time, a moment in personal history. \u00a0Our song. \u00a0That song they played. \u00a0You know the one. \u00a0The music now known as psychedelic or acid rock cannot be heard by someone in the Movement during the &#8217;60&#8217;s and early 70&#8217;s without instant transportation back, old Army jackets, pot, dope. \u00a0Looking out for the man. \u00a0Gettin&#8217; back to the land. \u00a0Stopping the war. \u00a0Youth done up in \u00a0neon colors and lived to the Jefferson Airplane, Led Zepplin, the Doors.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the Big Band era and World War II. \u00a0Glam rock and bubble gum. \u00a0Punk. \u00a0All have their devotees and their memories.<\/p>\n<p>Magical memory tours. \u00a0That&#8217;s an important thing music offers. \u00a0I don&#8217;t go there often enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Valentine Moon Listening to the Band, The Weight. \u00a0One of my favorite bands. \u00a0Up on Cripple Creek. \u00a0The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Band<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39423,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions\/39423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}