{"id":81,"date":"2011-02-16T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T01:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-02-16T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T01:35:37","slug":"existential-blues-performed-by-mr-bungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/existential-blues-performed-by-mr-bungle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Existential Blues&#8221; performed by Mr. Bungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 80s and 90s I spent Sunday evenings listening to the Dr. Demento show on KJ104 out of Minneapolis.  One of my favorite songs on the radio program was called &#8220;Existential Blues&#8221; by Tom &#8216;T-Bone&#8217; Stankus.  <\/p>\n<p>Tonight while scouring the Internet for more information about that song, not only did I find Tom&#8217;s website (and send him an e-mail) I also found a video on Youtube wherein Mike Patton and Mr. Bungle perform this song live at a club in 1991.  If you&#8217;re not a Patton fan and you follow my blog then you should probably get with the program and do some research.  If you like what I post I&#8217;m pretty certain you&#8217;ll like Patton (Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Fant\u00c3\u00b4mas, Tomahawk, to name but a few).<\/p>\n<p>Here is Mike Patton leading Mr. Bungle is a particularly spot-on rendition of &#8220;Existential Blues&#8221; with an interesting little mid-song breakdown into &#8220;Pencil Neck Geeks&#8221; by Freddie Blassie.<\/p>\n<p align=center><object width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/pophXFPSmc0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/pophXFPSmc0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 80s and 90s I spent Sunday evenings listening to the Dr. Demento show on KJ104 out of Minneapolis. One of my favorite songs on the radio program was called &#8220;Existential Blues&#8221; by Tom &#8216;T-Bone&#8217; Stankus. Tonight while scouring the Internet for more information about that song, not only did I find Tom&#8217;s website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-items","category-music","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}