{"id":217,"date":"2009-05-13T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=217"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","slug":"jean-michel-jarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Jean Michel Jarre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Jean Michel Jarre perform in concert, earlier this week.  I&#8217;ve been a fan since the 70s when <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oxyg\u00c3\u00a8ne<\/span> came out but I never thought I&#8217;d experience him live. G\u00c3\u00b6teborg&#8217;s too small a city for the kind of thing he is famed for, painting the Houston skyline with lasers or transforming London&#8217;s Docklands to a gigantic concert venue, so I was pleasently surprised when he announced his &#8220;In-Door&#8221; tour, a series of performances indoors, on a fairly small scale.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Scandinavium<\/span> is not what I&#8217;d call small (U2 paid a visit 18 years ago, and I listened to Paul McCartney dust off his Beatles repertoir there, close to 20 years ago), but I still thought it wouldn&#8217;t be enough for Jean Michel Jarre.<\/p>\n<p>Boy I was wrong. From the laser harp (you have to see and hear it; there&#8217;s no way I can make it justice here) to the analog synthesizers, from Oxyg\u00c3\u00a8ne to Rendez-vous&#8230; it was all perfect (well, actually he slipped while playing that laser harp, just once, but it happened) and I really only wrote this to gloat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Jean Michel Jarre perform in concert, earlier this week. I&#8217;ve been a fan since the 70s when Oxyg\u00c3\u00a8ne came out but I never thought I&#8217;d experience him live. G\u00c3\u00b6teborg&#8217;s too small a city for the kind of thing he is famed for, painting the Houston skyline with lasers or transforming London&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,162,164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}