{"id":4892,"date":"2009-11-13T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2009-11-13T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:05:51","slug":"stuck-at-the-border-unexpected-spector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/13\/stuck-at-the-border-unexpected-spector\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck at the Border \/ Unexpected Spector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedakotatavern.com\/\">The Dakota Tavern<\/a> last night, expecting to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/nanagrizol\">nana grizol<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/colleenandpaul\">Colleen and Paul<\/a>. I got there far too early, and notice that there was no sign of Theo Hilton or the rest of the band. I learned from Colleen (whom I&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/the-late-bp-helium-rocked-the-boat\/\">met before<\/a>) that they&#8217;d been stopped at the border, so Colleen and Paul were playing a longer set, and Colleen&#8217;s partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronsexsmith.com\/\">Ron Sexsmith<\/a> would play later.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration for musicians annoys me. The costs of visas, and the processing time required, basically means that most bands I&#8217;d want to see risk getting turned away at the border. Since touring is how these bands make their living, everybody loses.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Colleen and Paul &#8211; assisted by a couple of Colleen&#8217;s friends &#8211; ended their set with a lovely version of Jeff Mangum&#8217;s arrangement of <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/colleen_and_paul-i_love_how_you_love_me.mp3\">I Love How You Love Me<\/a> [mp3, lo-fi phone recording].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was at The Dakota Tavern last night, expecting to see nana grizol with Colleen and Paul. I got there far too early, and notice that there was no sign of Theo Hilton or the rest of the band. I learned from Colleen (whom I&#8217;d met before) that they&#8217;d been stopped at the border, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1040,1745,47,43],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-elephant6","tag-immigration","tag-music","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}