{"id":698,"date":"2008-03-17T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T07:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/03\/17\/eskimo-not-inuit-rock-n-roll-recall\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T07:43:05","slug":"eskimo-not-inuit-rock-n-roll-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/03\/17\/eskimo-not-inuit-rock-n-roll-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskimo (not Inuit) Rock n Roll Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 90s, there was an SF band I loved called &#8220;Eskimo.&#8221; They had one song in particular I was so sure was gonna be an alt-rock super-smash. We&#8217;d go to the shows and this tune (&#8220;Dado Peru&#8221;) would kick in and the crowd would start to sway&#8230;.<br \/>\nWell, Dado never broke out the way I expected it to. And I kinda sorta forgot about it until this past weekend, when it showed up on my ipod. I played it for my 10-year-old daughter, who agreed that it was the most-est. And we drove down Franklin in Oakland, raising our arms in the air, swaying like we just didn&#8217;t care&#8230;.<br \/>\nWhen I got home I started thinking, golly, I know it&#8217;s against the law, but wouldn&#8217;t it be great if I could rip that tune and put it up on Cecil to share with the world, without going to jail?<br \/>\nLo and also behold &#8212; the world wide web has saved me from a life of crime. Turns out the band was kind of enough to post the tune <b><a href = \"http:\/\/www.dropsy.net\/eskimo\/mp3\/DadoPeru.mp3\">right here<\/b><\/a>. May I recommend that you crank the speakers?<br \/>\nFor Bay Area folks who share fond Eskimo memories, that very same site contains <b><a href = \"http:\/\/www.dropsy.net\/eskimo\/mp3s.htm\">eight (8!) Eskimo tunes<\/b><\/a>  I&#8217;ve never before heard. I just downloaded them and will, yes, get to swaying momentarily.<br \/>\nYiba ho!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 90s, there was an SF band I loved called &#8220;Eskimo.&#8221; They had one song in particular I was so sure was gonna be an alt-rock super-smash. We&#8217;d go to the shows and this tune (&#8220;Dado Peru&#8221;) would kick in and the crowd would start to sway&#8230;. Well, Dado never broke out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}