{"id":7161,"date":"2016-02-17T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2016-06-16T00:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T23:31:39","slug":"classical-cd-and-ticket-sales-soar-following-arrest-of-pothead-cellist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2016\/02\/17\/classical-cd-and-ticket-sales-soar-following-arrest-of-pothead-cellist\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical CD and Ticket Sales Soar Following Arrest of Pothead Cellist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of concert tickets and recordings by classical orchestras, opera companies and chamber ensembles skyrocketed this week following the arrest of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/02\/15\/former-spco-cellist-arrested-in-oregon-police-say-113-pounds-of-marijuana-seized\/\" target=\"_blank\"> cellist who was found to be carrying 113 pounds of marijuana in his car.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2016\/02\/17\/classical-cd-and-ticket-sales-soar-following-arrest-of-pothead-cellist\/pot-cello\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7162\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pot-cello-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"pot cello\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pot-cello-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pot-cello.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDude,\u201d said new classical fan Brian \u201cTweedy\u201d aka \u201cThe Doc\u201d Billings of Austin, Texas, \u201cmost music has just been co-opted by the one percent crowd, man. Pop, rock, R&amp;B, even Phish. \u00a0It\u2019s all just mass produced, industrial corporate plastic, you know. \u00a0It\u2019s time for us to return to nature. Organic music and organic recreation, if you know what I mean, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phish Shreds IT\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aNHIFM0Y87c?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(Indie rock band Phish have seen many of their listeners shift their allegiance to the music of Robert Schumann)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps not surprising that cello music has led the sudden surge in classical popularity. Kieran &#8220;Skeeter&#8221; Jackson, a ski instructor and white water rafting guide from Boulder, Colorado recently bought Pieter Wispelwey\u2019s highly regarded new recording of the Bach Cello Suites, which he has been listening to while getting \u201cnicely toasted.\u201d \u201cMan, Wispelwey has a radical understanding of the role of dance rhythms in the interpretation of Baroque music. A=415 \u00a0may be a low tuning note, but gut strings and a lightly applied vibrato are a natural high. I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eprclassic.eu\/\">Evil Penguin Records, man<\/a>. Evil Penguin&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cello Suites J.S Bach - Trailer DVD Pieter Wispelwey\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7s4rCckyoc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sales of tickets to orchestral concerts across the USA have seen a sharp increase, led by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, where cellist and alleged weed transporter David Huckaby was a member of the orchestra from 2009-13, \u00a0which has seen a 72% increase in single ticket sales, a 41% increase in season ticket sales, and 500% increase in sales of snacks and munchies sold during concert intermissions.<\/p>\n<p>New classical attendees and listeners seem to come from a broad demographic range, ranging from hipsters and dude bros through metal heads, hippie chicks and former hiphop fans who have long since musically outgrown rap. Hiphop legend, actor and pot legalisation advocate Snoop Dogg is reported to have reacted to word of Huckaby\u2019s arrest by buying season tickets to the Los Angeles Chamber Music Society, and spending the weekend listening to bootleg recordings of the complete organ improvisations of Olivier Messiaen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2016\/02\/17\/classical-cd-and-ticket-sales-soar-following-arrest-of-pothead-cellist\/snoop-dogg-04\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7163\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/snoop-dogg-04-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"snoop-dogg-04\" width=\"450\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/snoop-dogg-04-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/snoop-dogg-04.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was never really down with classical,&#8221; said Dogg between tokes, &#8220;but Maestro Huckaby has inspired a rethink. Now I get it, man&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>COMING SOON- Vivaldi By Grow Light, Live!<\/h3>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Post script- This post is, of course, satire. I&#8217;ve never met David Huckaby, but I do hope that, in an age of rapidly evolving thinking about the legality of pot, his life is not ruined by this episode. There&#8217;s nothing funny about the legal risks he&#8217;s facing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2016\/02\/17\/classical-cd-and-ticket-sales-soar-following-arrest-of-pothead-cellist\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of concert tickets and recordings by classical orchestras, opera companies and chamber ensembles skyrocketed this week following the arrest of a\u00a0 cellist who was found to be carrying 113 pounds of marijuana in his car. \u201cDude,\u201d said new classical fan Brian \u201cTweedy\u201d aka \u201cThe Doc\u201d Billings of Austin, Texas, \u201cmost music has just been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-not-quite-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}