{"id":101539,"date":"2025-11-03T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/half-stack-diamond-dancer-kqed\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:59:59","slug":"half-stack-diamond-dancer-kqed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/half-stack-diamond-dancer-kqed\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Stack: &#8216;Diamond Dancer&#8217; | KQED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHalf of the Bay Area music scene has played in Half Stack at one point or another,\u201d Kegler explains.<\/p>\n<p>Kegler works as a scientist during the day, doing biology research. Making music as a full-time job is \u201ca difficult thing to pull off in the Bay Area,\u201d he says. \u201cMusic is not how I make my living but it\u2019s my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiamond Dancer,\u201d one of the tracks off of the band\u2019s new LP titled <a href=\"https:\/\/halfstack.bandcamp.com\/album\/sitting-pretty\">Sitting Pretty<\/a>, was written during the COVID-19 pandemic while Kegler and his wife were driving around the Northern California coast. \u201cIt\u2019s about hitting the road to figure out some stuff during a time of uncertainty,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the band\u2019s more upbeat songs, with an instrumental outro. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun every time we play it, because the band can really open up and get into jamming and rocking,\u201d Kegler says.<\/p>\n<p>Half Stack will perform live at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, opening for East Coast country band Florry. For details and tickets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottomofthehill.com\/20251104.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/11\/02\/half-stack-diamond-dancer\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHalf of the Bay Area music scene has played in Half Stack at one point or another,\u201d Kegler explains. Kegler works as a scientist during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}