{"id":697,"date":"2006-09-06T23:51:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T04:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2006-09-06T23:51:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T04:51:03","slug":"ben-harper-at-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Ben Harper at Central Park."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben Harper at Central Park\" id=\"image685\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/one1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben Harper at Central Park.\" id=\"image686\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/two1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight Julie and I went to <a title=\"Wikipedia:  Central Park.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_park\">Central Park<\/a> to see <a title=\"Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benharper.net\/?page=concert&#038;section=setlist&#038;id=2334&#038;cat_id=0&#038;view=player\">Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals<\/a>.  We got there early enough to hear the opener, <span class=\"small\"><a title=\"Damian Marley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.damianmarleymusic.com\/index.php\">Damian &#8220;Jr. Gong&#8221; Marley<\/a>, finish their set which was peferect timing considering that&#8217;s when everyone hits the beer stand.  We were able to move up to about 10 feet from the stage to see Ben Harper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben Harper at Central Park.\" id=\"image687\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/three1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The show was one of the better one&#8217;s I&#8217;ve seen this summer considering they even did a cover of <a title=\"Wikipedia:  Neil Young.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Young\">Neil Young&#8217;s<\/a> Heart of Gold.  Also, the opener <span class=\"small\"><a title=\"Damian Marley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.damianmarleymusic.com\/index.php\">Damian &#8220;Jr. Gong&#8221; Marley<\/a> and his band came on stage during the set and played Get Up Stand up which was really good.  Ben finished the night with an acoustic set that included some crazy guitar stuff that I can&#8217;t even begin to describe.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*Note:  Click on the images below to view larger images.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"small\"><a title=\"1. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals.\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_36151.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals.\" id=\"image688\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3615.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"2. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_36191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image689\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3619.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"3. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3626.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image690\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3626.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"4. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3655.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image691\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3655.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"5. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3658.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image692\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3658.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"6. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3670.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image693\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3670.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"7.  Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3671.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7.  Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image694\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3671.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"8. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_36721.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"8. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image695\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3672.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"9. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_36751.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"9. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals\" id=\"image696\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/img_3675.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Julie and I went to Central Park to see Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals. We got there early enough to hear the opener, Damian &#8220;Jr. Gong&#8221; Marley, finish their set which was peferect timing considering that&#8217;s when everyone hits the beer stand. We were able to move up to about 10 feet from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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":[10],"tags":[51,81,248],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-ben-harper","tag-central-park","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}