{"id":5169,"date":"2013-03-12T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2013-03-12T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:10:27","slug":"filligar-at-the-savannah-stopover-on-way-to-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/03\/12\/filligar-at-the-savannah-stopover-on-way-to-sxsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Filligar at the Savannah Stopover on way to SXSW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8268618372\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nThe Chicago-based rock band <a href=\"http:\/\/filligar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Filligar<\/a> has been around since 2000 and has over 63,000 fans on Facebook, but I&#8217;ll confess to never hearing of them before this year&#8217;s Savannah Stopover.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure glad I checked them out last Friday afternoon on the patio at B&#038;D Burgers. It&#8217;s an open, airy spot, but the band&#8217;s big sound and energetic live show easily took over the space &#8212; and took over the street too. <\/p>\n<p>The ever-changing mix of vocals, guitar, keys, bass and drums speaks to the band&#8217;s long time playing together &#8212; Casey Gibson and brothers Johnny, Teddy and Pete Mathias formed the band in 2000, when they were still kids.<\/p>\n<p>I caught the last couple songs of Filligar&#8217;s set on Saturday night at the Congress Street Social Club. As good as they were outside during the day, the band is even better on a cramped stage at night with the audience just inches away.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope Filligar will be coming back to Savannah on their next trip down South. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-07-25\/entertainment\/ct-ent-0726-filligar-profile-20120725_1_band-members-dee-dee-van\" target=\"_blank\">A fun 2012 piece<\/a> in the Chicago Tribune gives a sense of Filligar&#8217;s life on the road:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Filligar \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Teddy, Pete and Johnny, brothers from Chicago, and Casey, a childhood friend who spent his teen years in Madison, Wis. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d will open for Alabama Shakes Wednesday at Metro, in a pre-Lollapalooza show that sold out almost instantly. They spent much of late spring and early summer as openers on a Counting Crows tour, playing the biggest arenas of their musical lives.<\/p>\n<p>Before driving to the East Coast last week to play a beer festival in New Hampshire and headline a show Friday at New York City&#8217;s Gramercy Theatre, the band members, none older than 25, spent time in the studio, polishing their next album, the fifth since 2006 and a continuation of the bluesy, guitar-and-keys-driven sound that has seen them tagged at rock revivalists.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Filligar sampler:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1777466\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLcbp7YoRxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-nerve\/id378329220\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the latest album <em>The Nerve<\/em> on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>I took a few photos.<\/p>\n<!-- AAIAoF7st7FH -->\r\n<!-- Cincopa WordPress plugin wp1.161: \/\/www.cincopa.com\/media-platform\/wordpress-plugin.aspx -->\r\n<div id=\"cp_widget_AAIAoF7st7FH_475a66ec49e5c7c738d608d20d1fa3bf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cincopa.com\/media-platform\/runtime\/loading.gif?w=594\" style=\"border:0;\" alt=\"Cincopa WordPress plugin\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\/* PLEASE CHANGE DEFAULT EXCERPT HANDLING TO CLEAN OR FULL (go to your Wordpress Dashboard\/Settings\/Cincopa Options ... *\/\r\n\/\/ cp_load_widget(\"AAIAoF7st7FH\", \"cp_widget_AAIAoF7st7FH_475a66ec49e5c7c738d608d20d1fa3bf\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago-based rock band Filligar has been around since 2000 and has over 63,000 fans on Facebook, but I&#8217;ll confess to never hearing of them before this year&#8217;s Savannah Stopover. And I&#8217;m sure glad I checked them out last Friday&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/03\/12\/filligar-at-the-savannah-stopover-on-way-to-sxsw\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1078,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture-143.png?fit=510%2C333","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1ln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}