{"id":717,"date":"2007-06-01T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T16:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2007-06-02T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T05:39:19","slug":"tonight-alternative-champs-at-the-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Tonight: Alternative Champs at The Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like it says, Charlotte&#8217;s (and kinda Wintson&#8217;s I guess, since ex-Husbians Rick Randall is based in Winston) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternativechamps.com\/\" title=\"Alternative Champs\" target=\"_blank\">Alternative Champs<\/a> are in town tonight playing at <a href=\"http:\/\/the-garage.ws\/\" title=\"The Garage\" target=\"_blank\">The Garage<\/a>.  The Champs also feature my former band-mate, ex-Come on Thunderchild vocalist\/guitarist\/keys player John Morris&#8230; and of course &#8220;Big Mike&#8221; of Jolene and The Hardsoul Poets as well.  Here&#8217;s the blurb on them from the Garage newsletter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>        Part performance art, stand up comedy, satirical  theatre, and gigantic stadium rock band, The Alt  Champs are like a musical Monty Python  emphasizing the bizarre and hilarious while  thoroughly rocking you along the way. Although they&#8217;re  spawned from such critically acclaimed, regional  favorites as Jolene, Rebar, and The Husbians, these  guys are as unique to their past endeavors as they are  to the rest of the music world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alternativechamps.com\/images\/photos\/ricks_photos\/3.jpg\" height=\"503\" width=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also  in the lineup for the evening are The Westside Daredevils, Andy Freakin&#8217; Mabe, and The Saving Graces&#8211;a band fronted by Michael Slawter of the fabulous local music history site <a href=\"www.ncmusichistory.com\" title=\"NC Music History\" target=\"_blank\">www.ncmusichistory.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like it says, Charlotte&#8217;s (and kinda Wintson&#8217;s I guess, since ex-Husbians Rick Randall is based in Winston) Alternative Champs are in town tonight playing at The Garage. The Champs also feature my former band-mate, ex-Come on Thunderchild vocalist\/guitarist\/keys player John Morris&#8230; and of course &#8220;Big Mike&#8221; of Jolene and The Hardsoul Poets as well. Here&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=717\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9,13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}