{"id":17956,"date":"2013-03-06T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2013-03-06T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:04:49","slug":"more-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/more-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17965\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wexler.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17965\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-17965  \" alt=\"Someone wasn't paying attention to the man's wishes...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wexler.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wexler.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wexler-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the man&#8217;s wishes&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I heard an old <strong>Jerry Wexler<\/strong> interview over the weekend that Nick Spitzer did for <em>American Routes<\/em>. I loved hearing interviews with Wexler. What a <em>cat<\/em>! My close personal friend and bandmate\u00a0<strong>Sethro<\/strong> met him not too long before he died. Of all the musical experiences Sethro had without me, in his other bands, that may be the experience about which I&#8217;m most jealous. Spitzer wrapped up the rebroadcast of that interview with a story I&#8217;d heard once before: when Wexler was asked what he&#8217;d like his tombstone to read he said, &#8220;More bass!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What musical epitaph would you like to have engraved on your tombstone (or urn or whatever)?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses\u2014and hope it&#8217;s ages before your wishes are put into practice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard an old Jerry Wexler interview over the weekend that Nick Spitzer did for American Routes. I loved hearing interviews with Wexler. What a cat! My close personal friend and bandmate\u00a0Sethro met him not too long before he died. Of all the musical experiences Sethro had without me, in his other bands, that may <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/more-bass\/' 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":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956"}],"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=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}