{"id":533,"date":"2012-08-02T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T21:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2012-08-02T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T22:01:58","slug":"the-big-mess-busking-in-nanaimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/the-big-mess-busking-in-nanaimo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Mess: Busking in Nanaimo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is having a blast busking in Nanaimo?<br \/>\nWE ARE!!! WE ARE!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Big-Mess-Band.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-534\" title=\"Ahhh, the warm summer nights!!!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Big-Mess-Band-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Big-Mess-Band-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Big-Mess-Band-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Big-Mess-Band-429x300.jpg 429w, https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Big-Mess-Band.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The VoxMan and I got frustrated with having to make sure that our &#8220;case was closed&#8221;&#8230; so we purchased a group and individual busking licenses. Oh my god, we&#8217;ve unleashed a Monster!!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re having so much fun making music down at the waterfront. I mean REAL FUN. Dusk has never been the same!<\/p>\n<p>The city of Nanaimo is very strict on what you can and can not do, so we purchased a small battery-operated but beautiful sounding system. Kyle recently purchased a cahon and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, while we were in the middle of a song, our good buddy Mikaila Tombe appeared in the waterfront audience. As soon as I saw her, I had an idea&#8230; but it took all of us to play along&#8230; and it worked PERFECTLY. When we finished the song, I told Kyle to maybe ask someone in the audience if they might want to sing along with us. Kyle was on to where I was going with this, so he pointed to someone who he knew for sure wouldn&#8217;t join us. When they refused, he then pointed to Mikaila, who shyly played along&#8230; and then totally blew away everyone with &#8220;At Last&#8221;. I don&#8217;t think that anyone was on to our spontaneous little theatre act&#8230; even though Mikaila did a few more songs with us. Oh god, that was so fun!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is having a blast busking in Nanaimo? WE ARE!!! WE ARE!!! The VoxMan and I got frustrated with having to make sure that our &#8220;case was closed&#8221;&#8230; so we purchased a group and individual busking licenses. Oh my god, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/the-big-mess-busking-in-nanaimo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[11,3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatbox-vocal-percussion","category-general","category-the-big-mess-performs-live"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big-mess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}