{"id":20519,"date":"2013-11-16T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20519"},"modified":"2013-11-16T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T18:37:04","slug":"battle-royale-does-anyone-have-brassier-balls-than-jon-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-does-anyone-have-brassier-balls-than-jon-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Does Anyone Have Brassier Balls Than Jon Anderson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ne317y_eOYs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>As the classically trained musicians in <strong>Yes<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0hold down a cubed time signature\u00a0while guitarist <strong>Steve Howe<\/strong>&#8216;s wild runs through the Pixarlodian scale, focus on singer <strong>Jon Anderson<\/strong>. He shakes a single maraca, holding it close enough to the mic to be heard clearly. We&#8217;ve studied before the <a title=\"What singers do during long solos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/things-trevor-horn-did-during-long-solos\/\" target=\"_blank\">things singers need to do during long solos<\/a>, \u00a0but Anderson&#8217;s single-maraca shake takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Anderson had brass balls, if for no other reason for singing the way he did. I listened to the awesome late-period Yes song &#8220;Going for the One&#8221; at the gym this morning. Anderson sings so high that he could have sung the song an octave lower and still cut through the fury of advanced chordings. Maybe that&#8217;s the range God intended his voice to occupy, and if that&#8217;s the case, He is a good god, for He gave Jon Anderson the brassiest balls in rock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battle Royale:<\/strong> <em>Does anyone in rock have brassier balls than Jon Anderson?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the classically trained musicians in Yes\u00a0\u00a0hold down a cubed time signature\u00a0while guitarist Steve Howe&#8216;s wild runs through the Pixarlodian scale, focus on singer Jon Anderson. He shakes a single maraca, holding it close enough to the mic to be heard clearly. We&#8217;ve studied before the things singers need to do during long solos, \u00a0but <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-does-anyone-have-brassier-balls-than-jon-anderson\/' 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":[866,42,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519"}],"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=20519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}