{"id":911,"date":"2012-05-13T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-06-03T23:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T23:18:57","slug":"booker-t-jones-may-10-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Booker T. Jones  &#8211;  May 10, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Booker T. Jones\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Brooklyn Bridge Park\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 May 10, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Jones is the Booker T. of the MG&#8217;s and others, having been in the band of a zillion hits since the early 1960&#8217;s.\u00a0 While he spent most of his time on the Hammond B-3, he did get out and play some guitar, and also did credible vocals on a few numbers.\u00a0 The guitar of &#8220;Ice&#8221; Black seemed unfamiliar, and it turns out that he designed and built it himself!\u00a0 The opener was DJ Rich Medina; while I dug his stuff, there is a limit (exceeded here) to my appreciation of a very loud human boombox, which I estimate at 45 minutes.\u00a0 He signed &#8220;April&#8221;, causing wonder and envy of the lifestyle so casual in accepting the flip of the calendar page.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_886\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Booker-T-Jones-v2-signed-jp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-886\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-886\" title=\"Booker-T-Jones-v2-signed-jp\" src=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Booker-T-Jones-v2-signed-jp-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Booker-T-Jones-v2-signed-jp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Booker-T-Jones-v2-signed-jp.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Booker T. Jones<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_915\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Vernon-Ice-Black-v2-signed-.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-915\" title=\"Vernon-Ice-Black-v2-signed-\" src=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Vernon-Ice-Black-v2-signed--225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Vernon-Ice-Black-v2-signed--225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Vernon-Ice-Black-v2-signed-.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vernon &quot;Ice&quot; Black<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_890\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Darian-Gray-v2-signed-jpg-f.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-890\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-890\" title=\"Darian-Gray-v2-signed-jpg-f\" src=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Darian-Gray-v2-signed-jpg-f-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Darian-Gray-v2-signed-jpg-f-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Darian-Gray-v2-signed-jpg-f.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darian Gray<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_896\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Melvin-Brannon-v2-signed-jp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-896\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-896\" title=\"Melvin-Brannon-v2-signed-jp\" src=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Melvin-Brannon-v2-signed-jp-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Melvin-Brannon-v2-signed-jp-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Melvin-Brannon-v2-signed-jp.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin Brannon<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_898\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich-Medina-v2-signed-jpg-f.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-898\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-898\" title=\"Rich-Medina-v2-signed-jpg-f\" src=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich-Medina-v2-signed-jpg-f-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich-Medina-v2-signed-jpg-f-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rich-Medina-v2-signed-jpg-f.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Medina<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booker T. Jones\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Brooklyn Bridge Park\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 May 10, 2012 Jones is the Booker T. of the MG&#8217;s and others, having been in the band of a zillion hits since the early 1960&#8217;s.\u00a0 While he spent most of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,425,429,428,17,24,427,431,430,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}