{"id":804466,"date":"2020-02-21T12:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=956530"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:31:23","slug":"john-sebastian-and-lovin-spoonful-members-to-reunite-at-los-angeles-benefit-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/john-sebastian-and-lovin-spoonful-members-to-reunite-at-los-angeles-benefit-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sebastian and Lovin\u2019 Spoonful Members to Reunite at Los Angeles Benefit Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JohnSeb.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-sebastian\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-sebastian\" data-tag=\"john-sebastian\">John Sebastian<\/a> will reunite with the surviving members of the Lovin\u2019 Spoonful for the first time in 20 years next week as part of a Los Angeles-area benefit gig.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sebastian and former bandmates Joe Butler and Steve Boone last performed together at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2000. On February 29th, the three Lovin\u2019 Spoonful members will take the stage at Glendale, California\u2019s Alex Theatre at a benefit concert in support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autismhc.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Autism Think Tank<\/a>. The show is presented by the Wild Honey Orchestra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be honored this month by the Wild Honey Orchestra, the musical team that\u2019s doing an Autism Think Tank benefit this year in Glendale, California. And this year their subject is the Lovin\u2019 Spoonful,\u201d Sebastian said in a statement, noting that the performance isn\u2019t a true Lovin\u2019 Spoonful reunion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSince Steve, Joe and I agreed to attend, I\u2019ve gotten correspondence about a Lovin\u2019 Spoonful \u2018reunion,\u2019 and I want to clarify. Spoonful reunions without Zalman (Zal) Yanovsky are more like get-togethers. Most of the music at the show is played by a great assortment of studio musicians, not always including us. It\u2019ll be a blast but a <i>reunion<\/i>&nbsp;would be a misnomer.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yanovsky, the co-founder of Lovin\u2019 Spoonful with Sebastian, died in 2002. Boone and Butler joined the band in 1965; this Rock Hall-inducted classic lineup produced the singles \u201cDo You Believe in Magic?\u201d, \u201cSummer in the City\u201d and \u201cDaydream.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-sebastian-lovin-spoonful-reunion-benefit-gig-956530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sebastian will reunite with the surviving members of the Lovin\u2019 Spoonful for the first time in 20 years next week as part of a Los Angeles-area benefit gig. Sebastian and former bandmates Joe Butler and Steve Boone last performed together at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2000. On February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 01:02:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}