{"id":15736,"date":"2012-09-30T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2012-09-30T19:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T23:53:44","slug":"last-man-standing-the-big-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-big-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: The Big Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EgB__YratE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I thought there had been a thread about this subject awhile ago, but I guess not. If not, then the time has come to honor the iconic drum intro to<strong> The Ronette<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Be My Baby.&#8221; You know the one: Bum-ba-bum-BOOM!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil Spector<\/strong> added echo to drummer <strong>Hal Blaine<\/strong>&#8216;s bass drum, and everyone&#8217;s tried to imitate it and capture its Wall of Sound grandiosity ever since. How many imitations, renditions, samples and variations are there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought there had been a thread about this subject awhile ago, but I guess not. If not, then the time has come to honor the iconic drum intro to The Ronette&#8216;s &#8220;Be My Baby.&#8221; You know the one: Bum-ba-bum-BOOM! Phil Spector added echo to drummer Hal Blaine&#8216;s bass drum, and everyone&#8217;s tried to imitate <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-big-beat\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[146,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736"}],"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\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}