{"id":12375,"date":"2015-07-27T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2015-05-01T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T23:13:52","slug":"tgif-july-31-tommy-castro-the-painkillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=12375","title":{"rendered":"TGIF July 31: Tommy Castro &#038; The Painkillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KvDw0CYqfB0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The City of Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=12361\">TGIF Concert in the Parks<\/a><\/strong> returns to rock this Friday evening (July 31, 2015) with the R&#38;B sounds of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tommycastro.com\/\">Tommy Castro &#38; The Painkillers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After years of playing guitar-driven blues and R&#38;B backed by a tight horn section, Castro introduced The Painkillers live in 2012, creating a lean, mean four-piece lineup, with the drum chair now held by <strong>David Tucker<\/strong>. Fueled by Tommy\u2019s voice and guitar plus bass, drums and keyboards, the band released the 45rpm single Greedy \/ That\u2019s All I Got later that year (both songs are included as bonus tracks on the new CD). Greedy quickly became one of Castro\u2019s most-requested songs. <em>The Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> calls his music \u201cfiery and soul-drenched.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poinsettia Community Park is located at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/6600+Hidden+Valley+Rd,+Carlsbad,+CA+92011\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80dc732395fd363b:0xb14b7c98ba86a8f5?sa=X&amp;ei=egNEVajPCYbEogSEwoEw&amp;ved=0CB4Q8gEwAA\">6600 Hidden Valley Road, in Carlsbad, California<\/a><\/strong>. And remember to make parking easier, park at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/North+Coast+Calvary+Chapel\/@33.111617,-117.29515,15z\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x415e397ec2cdf03?sa=X&amp;ei=RQhEVbDvCIzToATzvICwCg&amp;ved=0CH4Q_BIwDQ\">North Coast Calvary Chapel<\/a><\/strong> and get a ride to the park in a shuttle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Carlsbad&#8217;s TGIF Concert in the Parks returns to rock this Friday evening (July 31, 2015) with the R&#38;B sounds of Tommy Castro &#38; The Painkillers. After years of playing guitar-driven blues and R&#38;B backed by a tight horn section, Castro introduced The Painkillers live in 2012, creating a lean, mean four-piece lineup, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12376,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions\/12376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}