{"id":256,"date":"2023-05-30T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/?p=256"},"modified":"2023-08-21T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:51:42","slug":"2-cellos-thunderstruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/2023\/05\/30\/2-cellos-thunderstruck\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Cellos &#8211; Thunderstruck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This video is from nine years ago, it&#8217;s one of the first ones they did.  The way they did it is pretty funny, they start out playing chamber music for an audience in period dress.  The music changes, the audience doesn&#8217;t, and it isn&#8217;t amused which is half the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sort of like when Michael J Fox gets really into the music back in the fifties and the audience looks at him like he has gone insane, which is probably where they got the idea from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, these two were opening for Elton John back in the day, they&#8217;ve been headlining tours since then.  They put out a number of really interesting videos based on the incongruous music they play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO]\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uT3SBzmDxGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: Apparently they broke up the act in 2022.  Ya snooze ya loose I guess.  Here is an article about them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-oakland-press wp-block-embed-the-oakland-press\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZwHPb5AQCX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoaklandpress.com\/2022\/03\/25\/groundbreaking-2cellos-duo-says-farewell-with-final-tour\/\">Groundbreaking 2Cellos duo says farewell with final tour<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Groundbreaking 2Cellos duo says farewell with final tour&#8221; &#8212; The Oakland Press\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoaklandpress.com\/2022\/03\/25\/groundbreaking-2cellos-duo-says-farewell-with-final-tour\/embed\/#?secret=JEZw0xtAeN#?secret=ZwHPb5AQCX\" data-secret=\"ZwHPb5AQCX\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is from nine years ago, it&#8217;s one of the first ones they did. The way they did it is pretty funny, they start out playing chamber music for an audience in period dress. The music changes, the audience doesn&#8217;t, and it isn&#8217;t amused which is half the fun. Sort of like when Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/nutsyandegg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}