{"id":6914,"date":"2011-06-01T16:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=6914"},"modified":"2011-06-01T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:25:42","slug":"michael-daves-at-rockwood-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/michael-daves-at-rockwood-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Daves at Rockwood Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen Michael Daves<\/a> twice before. Once, in a solo performance at Rockwood Music Hall<\/a> and once with Chris Thile<\/a> for their CD Release show next door at Stage 2. Our first experience with him was good, but the duet with Chris Thile was extraordinary, even though Michael couldn\u2019t sing due to the crazy allergy season.<\/p>\n

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

Last night Michael was back from a 4-week hiatus while he was touring with Chris Thile (he plays every Tuesday night at 10pm at Rockwood 1). His voice was fully back to normal. He performed an excellent set of hill-country bluegrass numbers. His voice is high-pitched, but so clean and powerful.<\/p>\n

The real magic happens while he\u2019s playing the guitar (accompanying himself while he\u2019s singing, as well as a number of amazing instrumentals and solos). I mentioned in my first post about him that he plays a style I\u2019ve never seen before. Basically, he strums full chords (a fast rhythm style), while somehow using a few fingers to blast out lightning fast and interesting leads.<\/p>\n

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

Close your eyes and you\u2019d have to believe there are two guitar players on stage.<\/p>\n

While we (and others) specifically came to see Michael play, our main reason for coming out last night was to see the next performer (whom we had never seen before). She\u2019s a huge star in Mexico (if you\u2019re interested in knowing more, read my next post). Quite a number of her fans did what we typically do at Rockwood, they came one set early to get settled in.<\/p>\n

I was impressed by how much it seemed that they appreciated Michael\u2019s unique performance, considering that it couldn\u2019t be more different from the one they came to see.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure this won\u2019t be the last Michael Daves\u2019 set we\u2019ll be catching.<\/p>\n

This was post three of four today, on to the last one. Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen Michael Daves twice before. Once, in a solo performance at Rockwood Music Hall and once with Chris Thile for their CD Release show next door at Stage 2. Our first experience with him was good, but the duet with Chris Thile was extraordinary, even though Michael couldn\u2019t sing due to the crazy allergy […]<\/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":[834,1367,493],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-2","tag-michael-daves","tag-music","tag-rockwood-music-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914","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=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6916,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions\/6916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}