{"id":23648,"date":"2020-06-24T08:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23648"},"modified":"2020-07-06T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:31:59","slug":"last-man-standing-artists-whose-professional-name-changed-mid-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-artists-whose-professional-name-changed-mid-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Artists Whose Professional Name Changed Mid-Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This may be one of those highly specific Last Man Standings, with only 5 possible answers. I can only think of a few instances of this happening, but you rarely fail to impress me. And please, read closely to get the rules straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re looking for artists who, after their professional, <em>credited<\/em> career started, <strong>changed their name<\/strong> on album covers, billboards, recording credits and other documented places. (Get ready for some rules&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Multiple name changes by the same artist DO count separately; please list them one per post, according to our usual &#8220;Don&#8217;t Bogart that thread&#8221; guidelines<\/li><li>Newly acquired nicknames do NOT count if the artist still has an underlying name he or she is credited by<\/li><li>Attempts to go by a new name &#8211; one that was documented on a record credit &#8211; that didn&#8217;t stick DO count<\/li><li>Your knowledge of the artist&#8217;s real name or stage name before earning any credits does NOT count &#8211; this is about documented changes in how an artist is billed\/credited<\/li><li>Credits on demo recordings that were not released commercially do NOT count (same goes for credits on bootlegs)<\/li><li>Variations in spelling DO count<\/li><li>A official return to an earlier variation on an artist&#8217;s name (ie, A to B, then back to A) DOES count as separate credit. If you&#8217;d like to earn that credit, please post the information in the right order, in a separate post<\/li><li>It will be the judges&#8217; discretion whether the addition or dropping of a <em>diminutive<\/em> or nickname in an artist&#8217;s name counts or not<\/li><li>This is about artists &#8211; human beings, NOT bands (eg, anyone trying to point out that Slade was originally known as Greenslade will be served a yellow card or put in the penalty box)<\/li><li>The judges reserve the right to add new rules as discussion ensues.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me know if we need a separate thread to debate the rules. Because the field of possible answers is so tight, I won&#8217;t prime the pump with an example. As always, DON&#8217;T BOGART THIS THREAD. <em>Limit yourself to one entry at a time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be one of those highly specific Last Man Standings, with only 5 possible answers. I can only think of a few instances of this happening, but you rarely fail to impress me. And please, read closely to get the rules straight. We&#8217;re looking for artists who, after their professional, credited career started, changed <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-artists-whose-professional-name-changed-mid-career\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23648"}],"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=23648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}