{"id":2385,"date":"2009-10-26T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-26T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T11:01:21","slug":"battle-royale-rock-and-roll-zelig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-rock-and-roll-zelig\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Rock and Roll Zelig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/zeligelvis2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lemmy Kilmister<\/strong> is featured in the current issue of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>.  The writer called him &#8220;rock and roll\u2019s <strong>Zelig<\/strong>,&#8221; and I think the article laid out a pretty compelling case for him:  He was <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>\u2019s roadie; he gave <strong>Sid Vicious<\/strong> bass lessons; he attended some of <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; Cavern Club shows.  On top of all that, he\u2019s Lemmy, for chrissake.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anyone else who has a greater claim Rock and Roll Zelig?  Please confine your answers to musicians.  I don\u2019t want this to turn into a catfight between <strong>Bebe Buell<\/strong> and <strong>Pamela Des Barres<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemmy Kilmister is featured in the current issue of Rolling Stone. The writer called him &#8220;rock and roll\u2019s Zelig,&#8221; and I think the article laid out a pretty compelling case for him: He was Jimi Hendrix\u2019s roadie; he gave Sid Vicious bass lessons; he attended some of The Beatles&#8216; Cavern Club shows. On top of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-rock-and-roll-zelig\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}