{"id":1051,"date":"2007-12-10T11:48:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:07:27","slug":"is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-ralph-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-ralph-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Drummer in the House: Ralph Molina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h3WsxRdyFws?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nDisregard, if you are able, the greatness of the above Neil Young song and the even greater audience shots of passionate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/overlookedgems.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/mandancing.html\" title=\"http:\/\/overlookedgems.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/mandancing.html\" target=\"_blank\">mandancing<\/a><\/strong>. Certainly, there&#8217;s been a whole heap of <strong>Mandom<\/strong> shaken over this crowd! For now, however, I ask you to focus on drummer <strong>Ralph Molina<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Is there a drummer in the house<\/em> to help me answer the following questions? But first, as always, I ask of our drummers to cast their well-trained, dispassionate eyes toward these questions, not getting hung up on cliched responses, like &#8220;It&#8217;s only rock &#8216;n roll, man!&#8221; or &#8220;What do you want, every drummer to play like Neil Peart?&#8221; Those of you who&#8217;ve kept a close eye on this feature can verify that for every <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=is_there_a_drummer_in_the_house_but_im_d&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=is_there_a_drummer_in_the_house_but_im_d&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Buckler<\/a><\/strong> who goes under the microscope there&#8217;s a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=is_there_a_drummer_in_the_house_billy_co&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=is_there_a_drummer_in_the_house_billy_co&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Cobham<\/a><\/strong>. In the name of musicology, we will examine today&#8217;s puzzling drummer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does Ralph Molina have any special chops and\/or signature move?<\/li>\n<li>Is there anyone in the Halls of Rock who feels he or she would not be able to hold down Ralph Molina&#8217;s job?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that Neil Young&#8217;s music is usually better when backed by Molina rather than a slumming chops maven, such as <strong>Steve Jordan<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<li>Does any young drummer want to grow up to be like Ralph? Why?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s your favorite Ralph Molina moment?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look forward to your analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disregard, if you are able, the greatness of the above Neil Young song and the even greater audience shots of passionate mandancing. Certainly, there&#8217;s been a whole heap of Mandom shaken over this crowd! For now, however, I ask you to focus on drummer Ralph Molina. Is there a drummer in the house to help <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-ralph-mo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[146,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}