{"id":4911,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/slimpocket-live-mcganns\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"slimpocket-live-mcganns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4911","title":{"rendered":"Slimpocket &#8211; Live @ McGanns"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/slimpocket.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" \/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Slimpocket<\/strong><\/font> &#8211; <font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14px\"><strong>Live @ McGanns<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">  Boston &#8211; August 7, 2009<br \/>Matt Robinson<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Let me tell you a story.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8230; So began the two-fisted lyrical attack at the front of Boston-area- based &#8220;4 R&#8221; band Slimpocket. Mxing Rock, Reggae, Rap and R&amp;B, the talented sextet offered a wide range of sounds and styles that occasionally mashed but most of mixed quite nicely. <\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Combining drug references with heartfelt explorations of love and loss, from the chimey Rick James-ian &#8220;One&#8221; and the Derringer-meets-DMC mix of &#8220;Dollars&#8221; to the melodic rap-topped metal of &#8220;Listen,&#8221; the repetitive dance hall dance cal of &#8220;Gimme What You Got&#8221; and the romantic &#8220;Reflection,&#8221; the band pulled a lot of influences out of their (slim) pocket while keeping the groove deep in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The Slimpocket &#8220;story&#8221; had many diverse chapters but it is one that warrants further reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><font><br \/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slimpocket &#8211; Live @ McGanns Boston &#8211; August 7, 2009Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}