{"id":2445286,"date":"2019-06-13T09:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=847652"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:24:25","slug":"phish-vampire-weekend-cover-gloria-after-st-louis-blues-stanley-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/phish-vampire-weekend-cover-gloria-after-st-louis-blues-stanley-cup-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Phish, Vampire Weekend Cover \u2018Gloria\u2019 After St. Louis Blues\u2019 Stanley Cup Win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Both Phish<\/a> and Vampire Weekend<\/a> paid tribute to the St. Louis Blues\u2019 Stanley Cup victory on Wednesday with respective live versions of Laura Branigan\u2019s 1982 synth-pop anthem \u201cGloria,\u201d which the hockey team used this season as their post-victory locker room song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Phish performed a fleshed-out version of the song, with keyboardist Page McConnell singing lead as he read lyrics from a sheet of paper. Guitarist Trey Anastasio grinned wildly while cranking out chunky barred chords, later adapting the main melodic theme into a guitar solo. In a display of their deft transitional skills, the jam band smoothly moved into a cover of the Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cLoving Cup.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Vampire Weekend\u2019s brief, ramshackle take opened with frontman Ezra Koenig leading the band through the basic chord changes. After singing the signature hook, he cut the song off with an emphatic hand gesture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vampire Weekend\u2019s tribute to@the Blues. #LGB<\/a> #stanleycupfinal2019<\/a> #Gloria<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/smPa8J1jpG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alan D Pennington (@alandpennington) June 13, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Blues secured their first Stanley Cup win over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday \u2014 completing a storybook turnaround dating back to January 3rd, when the team had the worst record in the NHL. It\u2019s unclear whether \u201cGloria\u201d helped the band right the ship, but it\u2019s worth noting that several Blues players \u2014 Alexander Steen, Joel Edmundson, Robert Bortuzzo, Jaden Schwartz and Robby Fabbri \u2014 picked up their postgame tune from friends while watching a Philadelphia Eagles NFL game in a local bar.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe got together with some friends and watched the game with a bunch of Philly guys who grew up there,\u201d Edmundson told the Blues\u2019 website<\/a>. \u201cThey had a DJ in the bar and whenever there was a commercial break, they would crank the tunes and all these guys from Philly would get up and start dancing around. They played this song \u2018Gloria\u2019 a couple of times, and this one guy looked at the DJ and said \u2018keep playing \u2018Gloria,\u2019 so they kept playing it. Everyone would get up and start singing and dancing. We just sat back and watched it happen. Right there we decided we should play the song after our wins. We won the next game, we got a shutout, so we just kept on playing it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Phish and Vampire Weekend paid tribute to the St. Louis Blues\u2019 Stanley Cup victory on Wednesday with respective live versions of Laura Branigan\u2019s 1982 synth-pop anthem \u201cGloria,\u201d which the hockey team used this season as their post-victory locker room song. Phish performed a fleshed-out version of the song, with keyboardist Page McConnell singing lead […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 21:00:49","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}