{"id":9879,"date":"2013-03-31T17:43:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=9879"},"modified":"2013-03-31T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:43:51","slug":"two-more-ukulele-videos-because-one-is-never-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/31\/two-more-ukulele-videos-because-one-is-never-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more ukulele videos (because one is never enough)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I tell people that one of the most joyful parts of the George Formby Society convention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/03\/20\/my-first-public-performance-of-when-im-cleaning-windows\/\">I attended two weeks ago<\/a> was the Thrash, they ask me to explain\u2014what the heck&#8217;s a Thrash? And though I tell them it&#8217;s that part of a concert during which everyone who wants to is welcome to come up en masse to strum a bunch of songs, it&#8217;s hard to really convey the fun of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Much easier to simply show you. And so &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you scroll ahead to 40:06 on the video below, you&#8217;ll see a small part of one of the many Thrashes that took place during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JakFa7RtxW0?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve experienced a Thrash, make sure you go back to the beginning and watch the video straight through. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/03\/21\/9-amazing-performers-from-the-march-2013-george-formby-society-convention\/\">Lots of great ukulele playing there!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Because one uke video is never enough, here&#8217;s Roberto Buscari with &#8220;I Love a Millionaire,&#8221; which I recorded three weeks ago during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/03\/11\/in-which-i-strum-the-uke-in-front-of-an-audience-and-give-myself-permission-to-suck\/\">a NYC meet-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LM-n2egHQT4?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time for me to back away from the keyboard, pick up my uke, and start strumming rather than just blogging about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I tell people that one of the most joyful parts of the George Formby Society convention I attended two weeks ago was the Thrash, they ask me to explain\u2014what the heck&#8217;s a Thrash? And though I tell them it&#8217;s that part of a concert during which everyone who wants to is welcome to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,175],"class_list":["post-9879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-formby","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}