{"id":2872,"date":"2008-07-11T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2008-07-11T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:32:13","slug":"mark-wood-violin-rock-concert-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wood Violin Rock Concert, Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/wood.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/wood.jpg','popup','width=267,height=477,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/wood-tm.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Wood\" \/><\/a>For some reason, the words &#8220;violin&#8221; and &#8220;rock&#8221; don&#8217;t seem to go together. <\/p>\n<p>We know, there&#8217;s a great cello part in that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4KanZJOPRk\" target=\"_blank\">Nirvana<\/a><\/strong> song and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekillersmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Killers<\/a><\/strong> are taking <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/raysuenclub\" target=\"_blank\">a violinist<\/a><\/strong> on tour this summer, but still. It just doesn&#8217;t seem right. Especially when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markwoodmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Wood<\/a><\/strong> (try to click <em>that<\/em> link without laughing) looks just like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yngwiemalmsteen.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yngwie Malmsteen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Carlsbadistan&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofmakingmusic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Making Music<\/a><\/strong> is hosting Mark in concert on Saturday July 26, 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wood&#8217;s musical retrospective of the modern electric violin features nearly 50 creations from his early experiments building electric violins.  Mark recounts crafting violins as early as age 10.  A progressive development of prototypes would eventually become the model for the 7-string Viper violin, a symbol of the modern rock violin revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for museum members and $7 for students.  For tickets and information, contact (760) 438-5996, ext. 212 or visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofmakingmusic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.museumofmakingmusic.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the words &#8220;violin&#8221; and &#8220;rock&#8221; don&#8217;t seem to go together. We know, there&#8217;s a great cello part in that Nirvana song and The Killers are taking a violinist on tour this summer, but still. It just doesn&#8217;t seem right. Especially when Mark Wood (try to click that link without laughing) looks just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}