{"id":13794,"date":"2012-06-08T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:22:53","slug":"silent-songwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/silent-songwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Songwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13796\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13796\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13796 \" title=\"REM's Peter Buck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/REMs-Peter-Buck-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/REMs-Peter-Buck-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/REMs-Peter-Buck.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In His Own Voice<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>On his Facebook page, would-be Roxborough resident and Newbridge mayor\u00a0<strong>Jon Wurster<\/strong>, partner-in-crime with <strong>Tom Scharpling<\/strong> on <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoftom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Best Show on WFMU<\/a><\/em><em> (my favorite 3 hours of radio\u2014heard over the Web, often after the fact, in <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmu.org\/playlists\/BS\" target=\"_blank\">archive form<\/a>) and drummer for <strong>Superchunk<\/strong> (among many others), asked the following question of his close, personal friends, a question that is right up our alley. Jon has approved of us re-posting this for discussion here. He looks forward to your responses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>News broke recently about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/r-e-m-s-peter-buck-plans-solo-album-20120314\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter Buck<\/strong> solo LP<\/a> that&#8217;s in the pipeline. This will be the first the world hears his singing voice (as far as I know). What other major songwriting forces never sang <em>in their bands<\/em>? My entries (and let me know if I&#8217;m wrong, just don&#8217;t preface it with &#8220;You stupid idiot&#8221;):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johnny Marr?<\/li>\n<li>Did Robbie Robertson sing lead on any Band songs?<\/li>\n<li>Greg Ginn<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Page<\/li>\n<li>Steve Harris<\/li>\n<li>Angus and Malcolm Young<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Ramone (didn&#8217;t write a lot but&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Neil Peart<\/li>\n<li>Tom Scholz<\/li>\n<li>Eddie Van Halen<\/li>\n<li>Iommi\/Butler<\/li>\n<li>Nikki Sixx<\/li>\n<li>Did Walter Becker sing lead ever?<\/li>\n<li>Has anyone but James Hetfield sung lead on a Metallica song?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his Facebook page, would-be Roxborough resident and Newbridge mayor\u00a0Jon Wurster, partner-in-crime with Tom Scharpling on The Best Show on WFMU (my favorite 3 hours of radio\u2014heard over the Web, often after the fact, in archive form) and drummer for Superchunk (among many others), asked the following question of his close, personal friends, a question <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/silent-songwriters\/' 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":[162,563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794"}],"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=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}