{"id":3164,"date":"2022-07-05T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:25:45","slug":"gene-harding-conan-in-the-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3164","title":{"rendered":"Gene Harding: Conan lights the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1003\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-29-1003x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-29-1003x1024.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-29-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-29-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-29-1504x1536.jpg 1504w, https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/\u00a9Camilo_Leon-Quijano-29.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[Photo by Camilo Le\u00f3n Quijano, Dec 2025.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GH: <\/strong>One time after Katrina, we were playing and all the power went out in all the clubs. Everybody stopped, and I just said, \u2018The hell with it,\u2019 and kept playing the drums. I mean, I was solo-ing I don\u2019t know how long, and when I look up, it was jet-black at night. I think Walter was at DBA; a bunch of people came from DBA, and all the clubs, because it got dark. They came over, because they heard the music, and Conan\u2014you know Conan just died not too long ago\u2014Conan came in, and he had a tiki torch. He brought a tiki torch in there, and I played for about an hour with no power! It was packed in there. People were buying drinks and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>[Read full-length interview <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>!]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo by Camilo Le\u00f3n Quijano, Dec 2025.] GH: One time after Katrina, we were playing and all the power went out in all the clubs. Everybody stopped, and I just said, \u2018The hell with it,\u2019 and kept playing the drums. I mean, I was solo-ing I don\u2019t know how long, and when I look up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-interviews","category-interviews","category-quick-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}