{"id":1246,"date":"2008-02-25T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:43:37","slug":"another-who-drummer-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/another-who-drummer-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Who Drummer Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re a little late on this new item, but I&#8217;d forgotten all about this story. In light of <strong>Scott Halpin<\/strong>&#8216;s passing, why not take a few moments to reflect on just about any young rock musician&#8217;s dream? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5223059\" title=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5223059\" target=\"_blank\">a link to an NPR interview with Halpin<\/a>, who was recruited from the audience at a 1973 San Francisco show to sub in for a wasted Keith Moon. Following is a clip of the young man&#8217;s trial by fire!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mahxhAo9SVs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI know <strong>Townsman Chickenfrank<\/strong> once did mop-up duty for a member of <strong>The Replacements<\/strong>. Anyone else ever get such a last-minute call, even for a local band?<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\">Previously, in the News!<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re a little late on this new item, but I&#8217;d forgotten all about this story. In light of Scott Halpin&#8216;s passing, why not take a few moments to reflect on just about any young rock musician&#8217;s dream? Here&#8217;s a link to an NPR interview with Halpin, who was recruited from the audience at a 1973 <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/another-who-drummer-dies\/' 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":[16],"tags":[170,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"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=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}