{"id":11246,"date":"2012-03-08T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=11246"},"modified":"2012-03-08T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:10:52","slug":"jerry-fuentes-and-derek-james-at-rockwood-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/jerry-fuentes-and-derek-james-at-rockwood-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Fuentes and Derek James at Rockwood Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerry Fuentes<\/a> headlined a set at Rockwood Music Hall<\/a>. We\u2019ve seen Jerry headline only once, over a year ago, so this was a show I\u2019ve been looking forward to for a while.<\/p>\n

Jerry\u2019s finalizing a new CD as I type this. In fact, if you agree with me that Jerry\u2019s talent should be shared with a wider audience, you can help by pledging on his PledgeMusic campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s Jerry\u2019s secret sauce? Amazing guitar player, excellent voice, unreal energy on stage, catchy songs. Not bad, right?<\/p>\n

Jerry played the entire set (or rather the part that I was able to attend, more on that below) on an acoustic guitar. This was the first time I\u2019ve seen him handle one, and it was putty in his hands. Not all lead electric guitarists can make similar magic happen on an acoustic, Jerry can.<\/p>\n

\"JerryFuentes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He played songs from his upcoming CD. I\u2019ve already pledged, so I\u2019m tapping my fingers waiting for it to arrive.<\/p>\n

I mentioned above that I\u2019ve only seen Jerry headline once. That doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019ve only seen him play once. He\u2019s been the lead guitarist for another favorite of mine twice, each time delivering the goods.<\/p>\n

Derek James<\/a> is that person, and Jerry returned the favor by inviting Derek to join him, turning it into a duo show, but still Jerry\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n

\"DerekJames\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Derek sang harmony (wonderfully), played the guitar (12-string acoustic) and a synth. I overheard someone in the audience saying the synth was preloaded with Chad Vaccarino<\/a>\u2019s voice, and only because I heard that, did I believe it to be true when Derek played it. It certainly wouldn\u2019t surprise me.<\/p>\n

\"DerekJamesSetup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m Derek James\u2019 self-anointed #1<\/a> fan (whether he, or any of his other fans like it!), so it\u2019s always a special treat to go to someone else\u2019s show and get a taste of Derek in the process.<\/p>\n

As much as I was enjoying the set, I had posted on the event page in advance that I wouldn\u2019t be able to stay until the end. That\u2019s because there was a blow-out show next door that I wanted to attend. Given the nature of the show, missing a single song meant missing one local superstar or another (and I wouldn\u2019t know who in advance). To make matters worse, Jerry\u2019s set started 30 minutes late.<\/p>\n

I still got four full songs in (all excellent) before I got the text that the show next door had begun (thanks to my unpaid spy).<\/p>\n

The super extra good news? Jerry and Derek came next door after their set and sang the lead on one of the songs in the blow-out show, with Jerry back on electric guitar. Jerry also accompanied others on the electric on a few additional numbers. Sweet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jerry Fuentes headlined a set at Rockwood Music Hall. We\u2019ve seen Jerry headline only once, over a year ago, so this was a show I\u2019ve been looking forward to for a while. Jerry\u2019s finalizing a new CD as I type this. In fact, if you agree with me that Jerry\u2019s talent should be shared with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[699,838,1367,493],"class_list":["post-11246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-2","tag-derek-james","tag-jerry-fuentes","tag-music","tag-rockwood-music-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11250,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions\/11250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}