{"id":1368,"date":"2008-04-15T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-30T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:28:18","slug":"battle-royale-best-gimmick-free-beard-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-best-gimmick-free-beard-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Best Gimmick-Free Beard in Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/levon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Levon&#8217;s beard, second from left.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I say <strong>Levon Helm<\/strong>. Well groomed without looking fussed over. Variegated tones. The beard&#8217;s best feature may be its fantastic <strong>mustache-to-beard definition<\/strong>. Unlike some of the fine, gimmick-free beards that <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, for example, has sported, Helm&#8217;s beard did not filter or otherwise aid or interfere with his singing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Next<\/em>, a look at Levon&#8217;s beard in its prime &#8211; <em>in action!<\/em> &#8211; getting a run for its money from <strong>Richard Manuel<\/strong>&#8216;s pre-hobo beard.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtoyFYrXPAQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nLater in this clip, <strong>Rick Danko<\/strong> attempts a terrible scruff beard, which answers the question why Rick never seemed to develop that killer moustache of early vintage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levon&#8217;s beard, second from left. I say Levon Helm. Well groomed without looking fussed over. Variegated tones. The beard&#8217;s best feature may be its fantastic mustache-to-beard definition. Unlike some of the fine, gimmick-free beards that Eric Clapton, for example, has sported, Helm&#8217;s beard did not filter or otherwise aid or interfere with his singing. Next, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-best-gimmick-free-beard-in\/' 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":[581,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"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=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}