{"id":10300,"date":"2011-11-16T23:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T04:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2011-11-17T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:34:07","slug":"a-few-words-about-moogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-few-words-about-moogy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Words About Moogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10317\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/a-few-words-about-moogy\/moogyklingman\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/moogyklingman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>Yesterday came word of the passing of <strong>Mark &#8220;Moogy&#8221; Klingman<\/strong>, one of the most prolific but &#8220;undersung&#8221; figures in our rock universe. I had heard the name <strong>&#8220;Moogy&#8221; Klingman<\/strong> pop up here and there, usually in the <strong>Todd Rundgren-Utopia<\/strong> camp. A follow-up with the usual suspects <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moogy_Klingman\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/mark-moogy-klingman-p94495\/biography\" target=\"_blank\">All Music <\/a>yielded quite a storied history. I was completely surprised of his wide-ranging accomplishments as a producer, songwriter, and musician. His getting expelled from high school after a jug-band performance with <strong>Andy Kaufman <\/strong>during a controversial civil rights concert is a story needed to be explored in more detail. He managed to cross paths over the years with all sorts, from <strong>Dylan and Hendrix<\/strong> to <strong>Midler and Manilow<\/strong>. His contributions to side 4 of Todd&#8217;s <em>Something\/Anything <\/em>are invaluable (most notably the organ on<em> Hello It&#8217;s Me<\/em>). RIP.<\/p>\n<p>I invite members of the Hall, more familiar with his work, to share their thoughts on the man.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10318\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/a-few-words-about-moogy\/moogy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/moogy-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/moogy-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/moogy.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday came word of the passing of Mark &#8220;Moogy&#8221; Klingman, one of the most prolific but &#8220;undersung&#8221; figures in our rock universe. I had heard the name &#8220;Moogy&#8221; Klingman pop up here and there, usually in the Todd Rundgren-Utopia camp. A follow-up with the usual suspects Wikipedia and All Music yielded quite a storied history. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-few-words-about-moogy\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[170,542,540,541,538,537,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}