{"id":4029,"date":"2018-07-01T23:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2018-07-01T23:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:14:38","slug":"the-go-gos-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/07\/01\/the-go-gos-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Go-Go&#8217;s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been two years since&nbsp;<strong><em>The Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>said farewell to touring at LA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Greek Theatre<\/em>.&nbsp; But they never said they wouldn\u2019t get together for something special.&nbsp; So they played Oakland and San Diego to warm up for three nights at the legendary&nbsp;<em>Hollywood Bowl<\/em>.&nbsp; As a purist, I wasn\u2019t interested in seeing&nbsp;<em>The Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>augmented by the&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles Philharmonic&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 as fabulous as they are.&nbsp; I wanted a real show, so I trekked to Oakland\u2019s glamorous&nbsp;<em>Fox Theatre<\/em>, which was filled to capacity \u2013 prompting&nbsp;<strong>Belinda Carlisle&nbsp;<\/strong>to quip, \u201cWow, there sure are a lot of you out there!\u201d&nbsp; What made these shows noteworthy was the return of bassist&nbsp;<strong>Kathy Valentine<\/strong>, who unwillingly left the group in 2012.&nbsp; I was excited at the prospect of seeing the classic&nbsp;<em>Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>lineup reunited.&nbsp; Alas, my plans were thwarted.&nbsp; Drummer&nbsp;<strong>Gina Schock&nbsp;<\/strong>had surgery on her arm, so she had to sit these shows out.&nbsp; But she still showed up to introduce the band, joined by temporary replacement drummer,&nbsp;<strong>Chris Arredondo<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>shook things up by doing several songs they haven\u2019t done for years \u2013 if ever.&nbsp; \u201cHere You Are\u201d is a highlight of the&nbsp;<em>Broadway<\/em>&nbsp;musical based on&nbsp;<em>The Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>catalogue,&nbsp;<strong><em>Head Over Heels<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Charlotte<\/strong>&nbsp;mentioned they\u2019ve never performed it live and hoped for the best, while&nbsp;<strong>Jane&nbsp;<\/strong>cautioned the band, \u201cDon\u2019t fuck it up\u201d.&nbsp; Check it out on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been two years since&nbsp;The Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;said farewell to touring at LA\u2019s&nbsp;Greek Theatre.&nbsp; But they never said they wouldn\u2019t get together for something special.&nbsp; So they played Oakland and San Diego to warm up for three nights at the legendary&nbsp;Hollywood Bowl.&nbsp; As a purist, I wasn\u2019t interested in seeing&nbsp;The Go-Go\u2019s&nbsp;augmented by the&nbsp;Los Angeles Philharmonic&nbsp;\u2013 as fabulous<\/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-4029","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\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}