{"id":3645,"date":"2015-06-27T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2015-06-27T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:28:38","slug":"richard-carstens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"Richard Carstens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10325390_410886005715552_5579212710251530705_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10325390_410886005715552_5579212710251530705_n.jpg\" alt=\"10325390_410886005715552_5579212710251530705_n\" width=\"403\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10325390_410886005715552_5579212710251530705_n.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10325390_410886005715552_5579212710251530705_n-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI liked Richard Carstens and wanted to know him better because Dave and Fred Robinson, who were the John Coltranes of punk\u00a0rock (to me) told me how talented his writing was. He was their favourite.<\/p>\n<p>He died over a year ago and when I found out that there was a memorial happening at the Horseshoe it seemed a meaningful thing to attend. Right off the top Al Miller was on stage playing guitar and he looked great which was a encouraging since the only other news I knew about him was\u00a0a benefit for his health in 2011.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1025\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PKuHK6WrQPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Watching the first three guitarists was like an action adventure movie starting with Al Miller followed by Dallas Goode &#8211; the poster boy for holding a guitar below ones&#8217; kneecaps as though that&#8217;s comfortable and then Fred Robinson on the stage floor conjuring the collective mystical healing power of music or youth or maybe just remaining alive with purpose. Fred was a new plot point turning the night, for me, into a story about dying early. The night itself was sort of like walking into a twilight zone episode seeing a collection of people from 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Someone said Richard had a daughter who spoke at the top of the evening, too bad I missed her but you couldn&#8217;t miss the prominent banner on stage with quote attributed to Richard &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna be a rock and roller&#8221;. To my mind that didn&#8217;t really fit the reputation Fred and Dave bestowed on him and having known him a bit I think he would say he had better ideas to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self: stipulate in my will nobody puts up a banner that reads I&#8217;m Gonna Be A Blogger. But some weeks later I ran into Richard&#8217;s close friend Dave who was in that unreal band of the day No Mind and he explained I&#8217;m Gonna Be A Rock and Roller was a significant song Richard wrote so I get it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18763_311255301832_5999446_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18763_311255301832_5999446_n.jpg\" alt=\"18763_311255301832_5999446_n\" width=\"604\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18763_311255301832_5999446_n.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18763_311255301832_5999446_n-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watching Nora (Daisy and the super jeans?) give it her all\u00a0was another moment where the memorial touched on greatness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1025\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87SFUOQNpPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I had so much excitement\u00a0for everyone I recognized in that production &#8211; Gord Cummings, Ian Blurton and especially drummer <a href=\"http:\/\/roncyrocks.com\/2013\/leslie-becker\/\">Leslie Becker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1025\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7fbqB9Rw-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Most fun moment was asking Mark Critchley if the guy on stage by the drum kit was Paul Newman &#8211; it was.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked Richard Carstens and wanted to know him better because Dave and Fred Robinson, who were the John Coltranes of punk\u00a0rock (to me) told me how talented his writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3645\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/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,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[861,857,860,862,859,856,855,858],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-robinson","tag-fred-robinson","tag-jesus-christ-superstar","tag-leslie-becker","tag-mark-critchley","tag-nora-fannin","tag-richard-carstens","tag-uic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}