{"id":117,"date":"2008-04-04T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T00:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/04\/04\/meddlesome-meddlesome-meddlesome-bells-and-city-harvest-black-at-the-mez\/"},"modified":"2008-05-06T17:40:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T21:40:25","slug":"meddlesome-meddlesome-meddlesome-bells-and-city-harvest-black-at-the-mez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/04\/04\/meddlesome-meddlesome-meddlesome-bells-and-city-harvest-black-at-the-mez\/","title":{"rendered":"Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells and City Harvest Black at the Mez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhamez.com\/\">The House of Hamez<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=389+Gregory+St,+Rochester,+NY&amp;ll=43.14283,-77.60203&amp;spn=.005,.01&amp;hl=en\">389 Gregory St.<\/a>, formerly Daily Perks) to check out the show.  I didn't find it all that different from Daily Perks (which was the last time I visited the place, so it's been quite a while).  Naturally the architecture wasn't any different, but the decorating gave it a different feel.  I was disappointed to find there were even fewer places to sit.  The guy working wasn't particularly cheerful, either, but I'll give that a pass.  I have heard people calling it \"The Mez\" but I still didn't get a feel that was anything but an artificial nickname &mdash; the website still reports \"House of Hamez\".<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, starting out was  <strong>City Harvest Black<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/cityharvestblack\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/images\/MySpace_13x13overFFFFFF.gif\" alt=\"MySpace link\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"13\" \/><\/a> who did a great job with looped noise and quasi-intelligible voices drawn from found sources.  It had the feel of a meditation on the sounds of the subway and really hit its mark.  I also stuck around for a bit of <strong>The Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/MeddlesomeMeddlesomeMeddlesomeBells\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/images\/MySpace_13x13overFFFFFF.gif\" alt=\"MySpace link\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"13\" \/><\/a>.  I was interested in seeing them because I thought I'd really like them.  As it turned out &#8230; well &#8230; I think I'll need to give them another chance.  The style was that of heavy, metal-sounding guitars and drums, some bells now and then, and vocals that were bright but kind of off-key.  I think I'd like the whole thing if I was more open to the idea.  We'll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) to check out the show. I didn't find it all that different from Daily Perks (which was the last time I visited the place, so it's been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/04\/04\/meddlesome-meddlesome-meddlesome-bells-and-city-harvest-black-at-the-mez\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,611,22],"tags":[73,563,562],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","category-music","tag-city-harvest-black","tag-house-of-hamez","tag-meddlesome-meddlesome-meddlesome-bells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}