{"id":2445501,"date":"2019-06-19T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=850189"},"modified":"2019-06-19T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:45:59","slug":"gary-clark-jr-builds-psychedelic-peace-path-in-got-to-get-up-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/gary-clark-jr-builds-psychedelic-peace-path-in-got-to-get-up-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Clark Jr. Builds Psychedelic Peace Path in \u2018Got to Get Up\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gcj.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gary Clark Jr. constructs a trippy path to peace in his vivid, partly animated \u201cGot to Get Up\u201d video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The singer-guitarist uses several cultural icons \u2014 including Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Marley, John Lennon, James Brown, Bruce Lee and Nelson Mandela \u2014 as signposts of positivity to combat various forms of evil, like Nazism and the KKK. The musician himself pops up throughout, slinging his guitar along a colorful route via trains, submarines and spaceships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement, Manu Viqueira, who co-directed the clip with Laprisamata, describes the visual as \u201ca journey throughout history in which the powerful energy of \u2018Got To Get Up\u2019 makes people come together to fight with pride against different forms of oppression.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGot to Get Up\u201d appears on Clark Jr.\u2019s February-issued third LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/gary-clark-jr-this-land-review-799001\/\"><em>This Land<\/em><\/a>. The songwriter \u2014 who recently joined Tom Morello for his solo track <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-tom-morello-gary-clark-jr-s-new-song-cant-stop-the-bleeding-821106\/\">\u201cCan\u2019t Stop the Bleeding\u201d<\/a> \u2014 will continue to promote the album on tour throughout the summer and fall, including a North American leg that launches in early August at Lollapalooza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gary-clark-jr-got-to-get-up-video-850189\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Clark Jr. constructs a trippy path to peace in his vivid, partly animated \u201cGot to Get Up\u201d video. The singer-guitarist uses several cultural icons \u2014 including Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Marley, John Lennon, James Brown, Bruce Lee and Nelson Mandela \u2014 as signposts of positivity to combat various forms of evil, like Nazism [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 05:25:20","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&#039;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\/2445501","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=2445501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}