{"id":17979,"date":"2013-03-07T10:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17979"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:09:37","slug":"is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-oh-shit-i-just-joined-a-dead-cover-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-oh-shit-i-just-joined-a-dead-cover-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Drummer in the House: <em>Oh Shit, I Just Joined a Dead Cover Band!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TkRLhKjWxtk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I received the following message from a close personal friend and Townsperson who just joined a Dead cover band. He asked me to pass along his note in hopes of getting advice from the Hall on how to best handle this new challenge<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just joined a Dead cover band to help out a friend from our\u00a0synagogue\u00a0 They do Dead, Stones, The Band, &#8220;Into the Mystic,&#8221; &#8220;Breathe&#8221; by Floyd, and some other classic rock. What was I thinking? Now what do I do?\u00a0Can any drummers in the Hall give advice\u00a0on how to play Dead-style drums? I&#8217;ve been listening to the band&#8217;s set recordings and it&#8217;s all bad habits and bad fills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a title=\"Unlocking the Secrets to Jerry Garcia's Soloing Style\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unlocking-the-secrets-to-jerry-garcia\" target=\"_blank\">Previously<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the following message from a close personal friend and Townsperson who just joined a Dead cover band. He asked me to pass along his note in hopes of getting advice from the Hall on how to best handle this new challenge I just joined a Dead cover band to help out a friend <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-there-a-drummer-in-the-house-oh-shit-i-just-joined-a-dead-cover-band\/' 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":[596,41,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17979"}],"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=17979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}