{"id":31477,"date":"2026-02-19T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:47:28","slug":"happy-birthday-todd-la-torre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/happy-birthday-todd-la-torre\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Todd La Torre!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31478\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/255_6037-RAW-queensryche-boatnik-grants-pass-caveman-take-hold-of-the-flame-Todd-La-Torre.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31478\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/255_6037-RAW-queensryche-boatnik-grants-pass-caveman-take-hold-of-the-flame-Todd-La-Torre.jpg\" alt=\"queensryche boatnik grants pass caveman take hold of the flame Todd La Torre\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grants Pass Caveman and Todd La Torre @ 2025 Boatnik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to a few concerts in my lifetime. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/user\/acase\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">setlist.fm<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been to over 900. However, that&#8217;s a significant undercount. <\/p>\n<p>The one pictured above included a top-five hilarious moment in my concert history.<\/p>\n<p>During Queensr\u00ffche&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mtorYolc-Cc\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Take Hold of the Flame<\/a>&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatnik.com\/cavemen.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Grants Pass Caveman<\/a> ran out on stage to perform the guitar solo on his club. He got soooooo into it &#8212; an Oscar-worthy performance. It was the perfect song to go along with a caveman too. I don&#8217;t know whose idea this was, but it was insanely brilliant and perfectly executed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been to a few concerts in my lifetime. According to setlist.fm, I&#8217;ve been to over 900. However, that&#8217;s a significant undercount. The one pictured above included a top-five hilarious moment in my concert history. During Queensr\u00ffche&#8217;s &#8220;Take Hold of the Flame&#8221; the Grants Pass Caveman ran out on stage to perform the guitar solo [&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":[413,134,891,1186,1195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477"}],"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=31477"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32882,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions\/32882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}