{"id":1315,"date":"2015-09-14T06:50:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2015-09-14T06:51:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:51:05","slug":"belinda-rocks-during-her-us-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/belinda-rocks-during-her-us-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Belinda Rocks During Her US Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always time my fall return to LA with the <em>Emmy Awards<\/em>.\u00a0 But this year, I zipped west earlier to coincide with my pal <strong>Belinda Carlisle<\/strong>&#8216;s solo concert at the <em>Fonda Theatre<\/em>.\u00a0 This was her first full-length solo hometown concert since 2003, and it was a spectacular event.\u00a0 Looking back at my review from 12 years ago, I wrote, &#8220;She rocked the near-capacity <em>House of Blues <\/em>with an hour-and-twenty-minute set, sporting her trademark <strong>Ann-Margret <\/strong>red locks and go-go girl looks.&#8221;\u00a0 All of that still applies, except now the concert was 90 minutes.\u00a0 Not only does Carlisle&#8217;s voice sound stronger and richer than ever, but her double hip replacement five months ago doesn&#8217;t seem to have slowed down any of her kittenish dance moves.\u00a0 I must make special mention of her opening act, <strong>Gabe Lopez<\/strong>.\u00a0 I first met Gabe eons ago as a songwriter, and I&#8217;m thrilled to see him now touring with Belinda (he&#8217;s also writing and co-producing her upcoming album).\u00a0 He&#8217;s paid his dues, and it&#8217;s now paying off.\u00a0 Congrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always time my fall return to LA with the Emmy Awards.\u00a0 But this year, I zipped west earlier to coincide with my pal Belinda Carlisle&#8216;s solo concert at the Fonda Theatre.\u00a0 This was her first full-length solo hometown concert since 2003, and it was a spectacular event.\u00a0 Looking back at my review from 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}