{"id":28948,"date":"2024-06-06T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=28948"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:35:01","slug":"happy-birthday-steve-vai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/happy-birthday-steve-vai\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Steve Vai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28949\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/242_7477-RAW-steve-vai-elsinore-theatre-DeNoiseAI-standard.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28949\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/242_7477-RAW-steve-vai-elsinore-theatre-DeNoiseAI-standard.jpg\" alt=\"steve vai elsinore theatre\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Vai @ Elsinore Theatre (February 1, 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@stevevai<\/p>\n<p>During Steve&#8217;s set when I took the above photo I got to thinking about the only other time I saw him (with David Lee Roth back in 1986), and it dawned on me that a new personal record was being set (<a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/metal-church-2019-brutal-assault\/>longest time between seeing an artist live<\/a>). After the show, I turned to my friend (who is about six years older than me) and told him about the nearly 38-year gap in seeing Steve Vai for me. A light bulb went off in his head, and he informed me that he had me beat as the last time he saw Steve Vai play live was with Frank Zappa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@stevevai During Steve&#8217;s set when I took the above photo I got to thinking about the only other time I saw him (with David Lee Roth back in 1986), and it dawned on me that a new personal record was being set (longest time between seeing an artist live). After the show, I turned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[413,1010,1111,1123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28953,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948\/revisions\/28953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}