{"id":62,"date":"2007-12-30T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/30\/otto-hauser-ben-mcconnell-and-jim-colby-at-boulder-coffee\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:00:51","slug":"otto-hauser-ben-mcconnell-and-jim-colby-at-boulder-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/30\/otto-hauser-ben-mcconnell-and-jim-colby-at-boulder-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto Hauser, Ben McConnell, and Jim Colby at Boulder Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali and I headed to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bouldercoffeeco.com\/\">Boulder Coffee Co.<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bouldercoffeeco\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/images\/MySpace_13x13overFFFFFF.gif\" alt=\"MySpace link\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"13\" \/><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=100+Alexander+St,+Rochester,+NY&amp;ll=43.14632,-77.60232&amp;spn=.005,.01&amp;hl=en\">100 Alexander St.<\/a>) to check out the show.  When we got there <strong>Jim Colby<\/strong> was playing &mdash; he played acoustic guitar and generally sounded good although I couldn't seem to immerse myself in his lyrics.  Next was <strong>Otto Hauser<\/strong> and <strong>Ben McConnell<\/strong>.  They set up like \"dueling drummers\" and played off one another.  It seemed experimental and improvisational so I liked it a lot.  I also found that I stayed interested despite that it was, well, just a couple guys playing drums.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing to taint the evening, though, was that Boulder kept the house music on while the DJ's were playing between sets.  Ali and I were between the two rooms so it made for a disorienting amalgam of music.  I guess it was kind of interesting sometimes and annoying other times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali and I headed to Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) to check out the show. When we got there Jim Colby was playing &mdash; he played acoustic guitar and generally sounded good although I couldn't seem to immerse myself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/30\/otto-hauser-ben-mcconnell-and-jim-colby-at-boulder-coffee\/\">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":[4,22],"tags":[332,172,333,331],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-music","tag-ben-mcconnell","tag-boulder-coffee","tag-jim-colby","tag-otto-hauser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}