{"id":329,"date":"2001-08-02T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-02T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2024-03-24T19:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:06:37","slug":"before-gemini-and-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Before Gemini and Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/7953-01.jpeg\" alt=\"The Mercury Program: the right stuff?\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mercury Program: the right stuff?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Mercury Program<\/strong>\u00a0will hit town during its five-week stint of live dates to support its latest Tiger Style release,\u00a0<em>All The Suits Began To Fall Of<\/em>f. This instrumental four-piece from Gainesville, Florida, uses vibraphones and bells to great effect. \u201c[Vibraphonists] Dave and Whit are actually the only trained musicians,\u201d says Tom Reno, the group\u2019s guitarist, bassist and bell player. \u201cI guess we actually know a lot about music, but neither [myself nor bassist Sander] have had any formal training. The Mercury Program is the main band for us. We may alter a few things here and there, but generally we try to write songs we can perform live.\u201d If\u00a0<em>All the Suits<\/em>\u00a0is any indication, Capitol Garage will be blessed come Saturday, August 4, at 9 p.m. Also on the bill is the Fireside Band and Nevada City quartet Pocket for Corduroy, which joins the tour for a handful of California dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercury Program: the right stuff? The Mercury Program\u00a0will hit town during its five-week stint of live dates to support its latest Tiger Style release,\u00a0All The Suits Began To Fall Off. This instrumental four-piece from Gainesville, Florida, uses vibraphones and bells to great effect. \u201c[Vibraphonists] Dave and Whit are actually the only trained musicians,\u201d says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}