{"id":47,"date":"2008-12-05T23:13:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T04:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:13:48","slug":"funky-soul-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Funky Soul Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/soulive-alan-drums-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Alan\" width=\"324\" height=\"220\" align=\"top\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some things you have to see to believe; some things you must feel before you can hear.<\/p>\n<p>This was the case last night when I attended a concert by <span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Soulive <\/span>for the first time last night, held at the Westcott Theater. I over heard someone in the crowd say, \u201cif you\u2019re going to be here, you better be upfront.\u201d Sounded like good advice. Especially since I wanted to get a good shot and only had a wide-angle lens.\u00a0 But I may have been too close. At one point Alan Evans (pictured above), hit the kick drum so hard I thought my head would blow off.\u00a0 Just like that I was &#8220;baptized,&#8221; as one fan told me.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Evans, along with his brother Neal, bass organist, make up the funky heart and soul of the band.\u00a0 On stage they were joined by guitarist Eric Krasno and later by guest saxophonist\u00a0Sam Kininger. I\u2019d covered Kininger during a previous music fest.<\/p>\n<p>To say I was impressed with Soulive would be an understatement. I found their live performance and musicianship as good as any band I\u2019ve seen lately.\u00a0 And their energy was like Red Bull mixed with Amp.<\/p>\n<p>The Syracuse\u00a0crowd gave new meaning to the word fanatics, \u00a0but on the other hand, I found a lot of\u00a0musicians\u00a0in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Made for a sweaty, yet sophisticated party.<\/p>\n<p>The opening act was the Ithaca band <span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Thousands of One<\/span>, which featured\u00a0our friend Will Sapp on background vocals. Glad to see he and his band were in such good company.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 beat goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things you have to see to believe; some things you must feel before you can hear. This was the case last night when I attended a concert by Soulive for the first time last night, held at the Westcott Theater. I over heard someone in the crowd say, \u201cif you\u2019re going to be here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,18],"tags":[102,3708,4999,101,103,110,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22825,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/22825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}