{"id":1296,"date":"2004-12-13T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/13\/kiki_and_herb_d\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:44:37","slug":"kiki_and_herb_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/13\/kiki_and_herb_d\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiki and Herb Died for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did anybody else<\/strong> get their <a title=\"Kiki and Herb Will Die for You\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/kikiherb\">2-CD set<\/a> of the <a title=\"Kiki and Company\" href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/kiki_and_compan.html\">Kiki and Herb Carnegie Hall Show<\/a> yet? I just ripped open the package and threw it on, and it&#8217;s <i>amazing!<\/i> I\u2019m quivering in delight. I\u2019ve been anxiously awaiting it \u2014 especially since I kept running into its <a title=\"Hot, hot Julian Fleisher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.julianfleisher.com\/\">producer<\/a>, who kept giving me updates, and one day even taunted me with the knowledge that he was carrying the only master copy in his bag at that moment. Jerk.<\/p>\n<p>But he was right, it turned out really well, and it was a great decision to turn the microphones on the crowd a lot. I\u2019ve never heard a live recording that quite captures the thunder of an adoring, devoted crowd quite like this. If you were there, you might feel chills all over again. If you weren&#8217;t there, you&#8217;ll wish you were. If you don&#8217;t get it, you probably never will.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a title=\"Total Eclipse of the Heart\" href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/Total%20Eclipse%20of%20the%20Heart.mp3\">Total Eclipse of the Heart<\/a><\/i> \u2014 Kiki and Herb, Live at Carnegie Hall, September 19, 2004<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anybody else get their 2-CD set of the Kiki and Herb Carnegie Hall Show yet? I just ripped open the package and threw it on, and it&#8217;s amazing! I\u2019m quivering in delight. I\u2019ve been anxiously awaiting it \u2014 especially since I kept running into its producer, who kept giving me updates, and one day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/13\/kiki_and_herb_d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kiki and Herb Died for Us&#8221;<\/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":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultramedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71372,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/71372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}