{"id":19657,"date":"2013-07-29T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19657"},"modified":"2013-07-29T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:18:47","slug":"mick-farren-hippie-proto-punk-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mick-farren-hippie-proto-punk-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Farren, Hippie Proto-Punk, Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmNavln3NAU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Mick Farren<\/strong>&#8216;s one of those legendary rock &#8216;n roll underground characters I&#8217;ve read much about dating back to a youth pouring over <a title=\"Trouser Press entry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trouserpress.com\/entry.php?a=mick_farren\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Trouser Press<\/em><\/a>, yet still know little of. Every few years I tried to grab a hold of him, but he&#8217;d slip away. I&#8217;ve heard music of his bands, <strong>The Pink Fairies<\/strong>, <strong>Motorhead<\/strong>, and <strong>The Deviants<\/strong>, and I know he crossed paths with many musicians I love from the hippie and punk scenes, but I never got a grip on the man himself. I hope you did.<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-pVp7tZV6Q?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s dead, having died onstage at a recent show. Feel free to help me understand more about the scene-stirrer whose life and works I, mostly, missed. (Oh, how I know our old friend <strong>Happiness Stan<\/strong> would have some choice experiences, likely involving a lady friend and an outdoor festival, with the music of Farren ringing in his ears.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mick Farren dead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/musicblog\/2013\/jul\/29\/charles-shaar-murray-tribute-mick-farren\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/musicblog\/2013\/jul\/29\/charles-shaar-murray-tribute-mick-farren<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Farren&#8216;s one of those legendary rock &#8216;n roll underground characters I&#8217;ve read much about dating back to a youth pouring over Trouser Press, yet still know little of. Every few years I tried to grab a hold of him, but he&#8217;d slip away. I&#8217;ve heard music of his bands, The Pink Fairies, Motorhead, and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mick-farren-hippie-proto-punk-dead\/' 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":[170,38,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19657"}],"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=19657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}