{"id":2207,"date":"2009-06-15T00:43:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T04:43:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-15T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T14:35:41","slug":"song-saving-solos-or-let-s-hear-it-for-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/song-saving-solos-or-let-s-hear-it-for-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Song-Saving Solos, or:  Let&#8217;s Hear it for That Guy in the Commodores"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIRGNzVIz6Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Greetings, all.<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to surface briefly to ask for a list of songs you <em>only<\/em> listen to because of the song-redeeming quality of the <strong>instrumental solo<\/strong> they feature.  There are a good number of these in my book, but perhaps the most striking example for me is the guitar solo in &#8220;Easy&#8221; by <strong>The Commodores<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This song is basically a cheesefest from treacly beginning to bathetic end, but &#8212; man, oh, man, did the dude who plays the guitar in that band get things right!  I absoluitely <em>adore<\/em> that solo, and I will gladly lilsten to the entire steamer just for the chance to hear it played.  Without the solo &#8212; uh-uh, buddy; no way I&#8217;m listening to that crap!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video above.  You can tell watching guitar player dude that he <em>knows<\/em> he&#8217;s the best thing about that song.  It&#8217;s his moment in The Commodores&#8217; sun.  Try as Lionel might, he simply cannot wrest control of the tune from Guitar Player Guy&#8217;s Six-String Moment.  <em>Play on, Commodores Guitar Player Guy, play on!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, all. Just wanted to surface briefly to ask for a list of songs you only listen to because of the song-redeeming quality of the instrumental solo they feature. There are a good number of these in my book, but perhaps the most striking example for me is the guitar solo in &#8220;Easy&#8221; by The <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/song-saving-solos-or-let-s-hear-it-for-t\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/2207"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}