{"id":12307,"date":"2012-03-09T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12307"},"modified":"2012-03-07T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T01:52:13","slug":"i-sure-as-hell-don%e2%80%99t-call-him-%e2%80%9cluke%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-sure-as-hell-don%e2%80%99t-call-him-%e2%80%9cluke%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"I Sure as Hell Don\u2019t Call Him \u201cLuke\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7FXPbnxiRg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Seriously, is there something about being a &#8220;musician&#8217;s musician&#8221; that makes one seem more likely to come off like an asshole\u2014not everyone in this clip, mind you\u2014or is it the fact that they&#8217;re the ones most likely to be asked to appear in these videos that gives us the opportunity to see them that way? In other words, if we were filmed playing &#8220;No Fun&#8221; or &#8220;Gloria&#8221; or whatever &#8220;cool,&#8221; rudimentary song we knew how to play on guitar would we tend to come off looking just as self-absorbed?<\/p>\n<p>Or am I simply an asshole for thinking this way at all?<\/p>\n<p>Is there&#8217;s anything to what I&#8217;ve been thinking when I watch this clip, is there an instrument on which players with &#8220;chops&#8221; are <em>least likely<\/em> to look silly playing in such a video? Do piano players, for instance, come off any better when captured showing off their chops?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, is there something about being a &#8220;musician&#8217;s musician&#8221; that makes one seem more likely to come off like an asshole\u2014not everyone in this clip, mind you\u2014or is it the fact that they&#8217;re the ones most likely to be asked to appear in these videos that gives us the opportunity to see them that way? <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-sure-as-hell-don%e2%80%99t-call-him-%e2%80%9cluke%e2%80%9d\/' 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":[596,589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307"}],"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=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}