{"id":2161,"date":"2009-05-12T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-12T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:50:03","slug":"six-degrees-of-guest-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/six-degrees-of-guest-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Guest Musicians: Beginning With The Beatles\/Clapton Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-u6cwYgX_4Q?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a little game I&#8217;d like to try out, without having put a great deal of thought into it to ensure its chances of success. In other words, I ask you to cut me a break in advance, if this turns out to be a terrible idea.<\/p>\n<p>A Townsperson will suggest a guest musician on a noted artist&#8217;s record, such as <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong> playing on <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps.&#8221; We&#8217;re talking actual guest appearances or appearances as session musicians, not a spell when said &#8220;guest&#8221; was actually a member of the band (eg, <strong>Johnny Marr<\/strong>&#8216;s membership in <strong>Modest Mouse<\/strong> does <em>not<\/em> count as &#8220;guest appearance&#8221;). Easy enough, right? <\/p>\n<p><em>Then<\/em>, the next Townsperson needs to cite someone who has <strong>1)<\/strong> guested on that guest musician&#8217;s own recording, <strong>2)<\/strong> another recording by an artist on which the first guest musician has recorded, or <strong>3)<\/strong> a guest musician on the most recently-introduced artist&#8217;s recording who can be tied back to the previous guest artist. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, in the case of Clapton guesting with The Beatles, the next Townsperson would need to cite either <strong>1)<\/strong> someone who has guested on a Clapton record or  <strong>2)<\/strong> someone who has guested on a recording by another musician with whom Clapton has guested. In this example, for instance, Townsperson #2 may play <strong>George Harrison<\/strong> guesting with <strong>Delaney, Bonnie and Friends<\/strong>, with whom Clapton also guested! (Harrison may have been a guest musician on a Clapton record, for that matter &#8211; either direction would work, if this is the case.)<\/p>\n<p>With that move played, <ins><strong>Townsperson #3<\/strong><\/ins> would need to cite a musician who has <strong>1)<\/strong> guested with Harrison, <strong>2)<\/strong> guested with another musician with whom Harrison has also guested (eg, Clapton!), or <strong>3)<\/strong> guested with the most recently-introduced artist in this tangled web, Delaney, Bonnie and Friends. <\/p>\n<p>Got me? I&#8217;ll tell you what, to make sure you&#8217;ve got me, <strong>let&#8217;s say those first two moves have been played and the first Townsperson to play is Townsperson #3.<\/strong> You may even play that Clapton card I just gave you as a possible answer at your own risk: the coencentric circles of Clapton-associated musicians may quickly become too much to bear!<\/p>\n<p>We may never get off this topic, or we may throw up our hands and determine it&#8217;s time to put a halt to these proceedings in the Halls of Rock. Godspeed, Townspeople!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little game I&#8217;d like to try out, without having put a great deal of thought into it to ensure its chances of success. In other words, I ask you to cut me a break in advance, if this turns out to be a terrible idea. A Townsperson will suggest a guest musician on <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/six-degrees-of-guest-musicians\/' 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":[19,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161"}],"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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}