{"id":11825,"date":"2012-03-22T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2012-03-22T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:15:43","slug":"rebecca-haviland-at-watercolor-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/rebecca-haviland-at-watercolor-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Haviland at Watercolor Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebecca Haviland<\/a> headlined a set at Watercolor Caf\u00e9<\/a>. She also joined the openers, The Vanity Belles<\/a>, playing piano to open and close their set.<\/p>\n

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As with the set before, this was a test of how well a group we love sounds stripped down. In this case, stripped down even further than The Vanity Belles were.<\/p>\n

Rebecca dropped the keyboards and drums (and occasional lead electric guitar). She played rhythm electric guitar and switched to finger-picking the electric for a song or two. She was accompanied by an electric bass and nothing else.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say that I didn\u2019t miss the drums, which really enrich the haunting beats in most of Rebecca\u2019s songs, but otherwise, Rebecca and Chris knocked it out of the park all by themselves.<\/p>\n

Rebecca is getting really close to releasing a new CD, one that we can\u2019t wait to get our hands on. That she and Chris can faithfully reproduce the richness of the feel<\/em> of this music, with just the two of them, is a testament to the songs themselves, not requiring the masking of a large and loud band.<\/p>\n

Of course Rebecca\u2019s voice had all of the rocker-chick goodness happening throughout, and the sound system at Watercooler is perfectly suited to such an intimate venue.<\/p>\n

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

Chris Anderson<\/a> is Rebecca\u2019s writing partner on most of the songs (all?) and played electric bass and sang a ton of harmony as well. Because Rebecca was mostly playing rhythm guitar, Chris was really driving the melodic part of the instruments, and he was more than up to the task.<\/p>\n

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Both Chris and Rebecca played on the earlier set. I held this photo back for this post, of the Belles with Rebecca and Chris:<\/p>\n

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

In case you didn\u2019t read my previous post<\/a>, I\u2019ll repeat my observation about Watercooler Caf\u00e9 here:<\/p>\n

As if amazing music delivered by incredible musicians wouldn\u2019t have been enough, this was our first trip to Watercooler Caf\u00e9 and there\u2019s no way it will be our last. The food was fantastic. I had the Baked Eggplant with a Three Cheese Spinach and Mushroom stuffing for an appetizer (OMG) and Wasabi-Sesame Crusted Tuna for the main dish (holy moly).<\/p>\n

That we also got to spend it with two other couples, that we weren\u2019t sure would be there, turned it into a festive and interesting evening, independent of the music.<\/p>\n

One of those couples was Chris Anderson\u2019s parents, who we really look forward to seeing at these shows. Rebecca\u2019s parents were there too (though we didn\u2019t sit with them). Here are the moms:<\/p>\n

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

And Chris with his Dad:<\/p>\n

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Rebecca Haviland headlined a set at Watercolor Caf\u00e9. She also joined the openers, The Vanity Belles, playing piano to open and close their set. As with the set before, this was a test of how well a group we love sounds stripped down. In this case, stripped down even further than The Vanity Belles were. […]<\/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":[16,15,17,2],"tags":[602,1367,818,1272],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining","category-food","category-music","category-2","tag-chris-anderson","tag-music","tag-rebecca-haviland","tag-watercooler-cafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","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=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11829,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions\/11829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}