{"id":248,"date":"2012-01-12T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T04:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2012-01-12T21:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:15:55","slug":"los-cheez-tones-live-from-franks-spare-bedroom-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Los Cheez-tones &#8212; LIVE! From Frank&#8217;s Spare Bedroom, pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Caballero.m4a\">Caballero<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Cheez-tones was a sort of proto-Polecats band that was mostly me and Marty Stevens, with Richard von Busack wandering in and out as he chose. Marty and I had some gigs, but I think we had a band with Andy Average called, variously, El Rancho Dressing, the Radar Rangers and Los Buckaroobs before the Polecats formed. I remember Dave Lowery of Camper van Beethoven sat in on drums at the reception when Sharan and I got married. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;d ever played drums before.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, whatever we were called, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Caballero.m4a\">Caballero<\/a> was one of my favorite songs from that band.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel: Marty Stevens, high vocal, rub board; Broos Campbell, not as high vocal, guitar; Richard von Busack, accordion.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Lawrence recorded this at a house on McGee Street in Berkeley way back when God was a pup. All I remember about it was crawling out the back window to smoke. I think there was a concrete patio out there.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like Richard&#8217;s chugging accordion workout here. It gives the song a lot of needed jauntiness that nicely underscores the lyric, which I partly stole from some Jack Kerouac poem from a City Lights book I had when I was a kid. I remember it had a black-and-white photo of him in a cap, taken in North Africa somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Words and music copyright \u00a9 1986 Broos Campbell. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caballero Los Cheez-tones was a sort of proto-Polecats band that was mostly me and Marty Stevens, with Richard von Busack wandering in and out as he chose. Marty and I had some gigs, but I think we had a band &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/?p=248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[134,133,130,132,129,128,131,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.broos-campbell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}