{"id":2135,"date":"2011-03-21T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:31:46","slug":"we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/2011\/we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ARE THE VIOLET LIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sound guy at The Viper Room as we finish our set and the curtains just close, &#8220;I hope you guys know that you fucking rocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Violet Lights played their first show on Tuesday, and although only some fifty people were there to witness it, the show was nothing short of a huge milestone.  For the better part of ten years, Joel has been putting all of his hopes, and after scraping a living out of random, dead end jobs, as much of his effort as he possibly could, into turning his music into something with a future.  For as long as I&#8217;ve known him as an adult, that&#8217;s always what I&#8217;ve known him to really want.  Now, for the very first time since he started, he finally, concretely, has a band that both plays his songs and has real prospects.  So now we have a recording, we have a band, and after Tuesday\u2019s exhilaratingly solid and well-received debut show, we are a whole lot closer to being able to say that The Violet Lights are indeed real.  It&#8217;s been a long time coming, baby.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/violet-lights-viper-room.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Violet Lights on The Viper Room Marquee, West Hollywood, CA.\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2136\" width=\"650\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/violet-lights-viper-room.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/violet-lights-viper-room-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/violet-lights-viper-room-640x963.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>photo by David Landsberger<\/h6>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sound guy at The Viper Room as we finish our set and the curtains just close, &#8220;I hope you guys know that you fucking rocked.&#8221; The Violet Lights played their first show on Tuesday, and although only some fifty people were there to witness it, the show was nothing short of a huge milestone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[79,80,39,87],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows","tag-amber-garvey","tag-joel-nass","tag-los-angeles","tag-the-viper-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":70,"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevioletlights.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}