{"id":190,"date":"2007-01-29T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T14:46:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-29T19:23:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:23:59","slug":"tha-playaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/tha-playaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Tha Playaz?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/div>\n

Submitted by Townsman Rick Massimo.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n

I reckon we’ve all had bands that we realized we were wrong about – that we underestimated at first but realized the greatness of later. But how about individual players?<\/em><\/p>\n

In my late teens, I confess, I was one of those who looked down on John Bonham<\/a><\/strong> as a ham-fisted pounder<\/strong>. It was in my early 20s that I realized what a sexy beast his playing is. It took a lot longer – until my early 30s, I think – to realize what a monster Mick Fleetwood<\/strong> actually is. (Hearing “Hold Me” on Saturday, and realizing what a jam that is, brought the question to mind.)<\/p>\n

Any other examples? I realize the above are both drummers, but they don’t have to be. And what does it say about me that they both are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted by Townsman Rick Massimo. I reckon we’ve all had bands that we realized we were wrong about – that we underestimated at first but realized the greatness of later. But how about individual players? In my late teens, I confess, I was one of those who looked down on John Bonham as a ham-fisted […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}