{"id":16422,"date":"2012-11-02T16:37:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16422"},"modified":"2012-11-03T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T22:08:50","slug":"legendary-bands-lacking-particularly-influential-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/legendary-bands-lacking-particularly-influential-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Bands Lacking Particularly Influential Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16423\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16423\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16423\" title=\"pete-quaife\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pete-quaife-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pete-quaife-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pete-quaife.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WANTED: Bassist with good hair. No poseurs!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some nerdboy with a thing for <strong>Pete Quaife<\/strong>&#8216;s hairdo is bound to disagree, but driving into work this morning it occurred to me that <strong>The Kinks<\/strong> achieved a legendary body of work without having any particularly influential musician. Any musician with an ounce of taste will rave about songwriting and the songs, but beside <strong>Dave Davies<\/strong>&#8216; freakout solos on a couple of early singles, who ever thinks of any member of that band in a &#8220;Musicians&#8217; Musician&#8221; type of way? Who&#8217;s ever posted an add seeking a musician with a description of the musical style of a member of The Kinks?<\/p>\n<p>Sure,\u00a0\u00a0a case can be made for the influence of <strong>Ray Davies<\/strong>&#8216; fey vocal delivery, but has Ray ever made a &#8220;Top 100 Vocalists in Rock&#8221; list? Highly doubtful.<\/p>\n<p>In no way do I mean to imply that there&#8217;s anything <em>wrong<\/em> with this thought, mind you, but I was wondering if any other legendary bands were composed of musicians who didn&#8217;t particularly influence future generations of <em>musicians<\/em>, you know, real musicians who practice, buy special gear, and shit like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some nerdboy with a thing for Pete Quaife&#8216;s hairdo is bound to disagree, but driving into work this morning it occurred to me that The Kinks achieved a legendary body of work without having any particularly influential musician. Any musician with an ounce of taste will rave about songwriting and the songs, but beside Dave <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/legendary-bands-lacking-particularly-influential-musicians\/' 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":[596,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16422"}],"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=16422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}