{"id":6630,"date":"2016-02-23T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T13:16:44","slug":"new-yorkthe-magic-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/new-yorkthe-magic-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/The Magic Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/brian_suzanne.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6632\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/brian_suzanne.jpg\" alt=\"brian_suzanne\" width=\"480\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBrian Rose and Suzanne Vega, backstage at the Bottom Line &#8212; 1990<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, <a href=\"http:\/\/magicshopny.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Magic Shop<\/a>, one of New York&#8217;s great recording studios is closing. It&#8217;s for the usual reasons. As owner Steve Rosenthal <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1RjNd5C\" target=\"_blank\">said in the Times<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cAs the city becomes more of a corporate and condo island, some of us wish for a better balance between money and art, between progress and preservation, and we hope that one day we will see a reversal of the destruction of conscience and community we are witnessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musicians like Lou Reed and David Bowie recorded albums there. And a much less known project. An unfinished album of my songs produced by Suzanne Vega. Here is my tribute to to Steve and the Magic Shop &#8212; recorded there in 1990 &#8212; with Greg Anderson on bass, Frank Vilardi on drums, Jon Gordon on guitar, Lisa Gutkin on violin, and Suzanne Vega background vocals.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic Kingdom:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6630-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Magic-Kingdom-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Magic-Kingdom-1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Magic-Kingdom-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Rose and Suzanne Vega, backstage at the Bottom Line &#8212; 1990 Sadly, The Magic Shop, one of New York&#8217;s great recording studios is closing. It&#8217;s for the usual reasons. As owner Steve Rosenthal said in the Times:\u00a0\u201cAs the city becomes more of a corporate and condo island, some of us wish for a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}