{"id":2440,"date":"2009-11-18T19:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-18T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:35:55","slug":"mystery-date-revealed-phil-manzanera-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-phil-manzanera-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date Revealed:  Phil Manzanera (with a chunk of the Split Enz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4Sd6Cz9SNRY]<br \/>\nPhil&#8217;s 1978 solo release, <strong>K-Scope<\/strong>, was recorded in the home studio of <em>Chris Squier<\/em> and featured <em>Tim Finn<\/em> on most lead vocals, <em>Neil<\/em> on  on at least one backup and <strong>Split Enz\/Crowded House<\/strong> keyboardest <em>Eddie Rayner<\/em>. <em> John Wetton<\/em> and <em>Bill MacCormick<\/em> were all over it as well.    I think if I had played the above track, <strong>Cuban Crises<\/strong>, folks would&#8217;ve gotten the Finn part but not the Manzanera part?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my favorite track from this fun but hit or miss album:<br \/>\nzgi-7eQvFjc]<\/p>\n<p>If you dig &#8217;70 era <em>Roxy, Eno, Ferry<\/em> then I&#8217;d suggest Phil&#8217;s first solo album <strong>Diamond Head<\/strong>.  I&#8217;m sure there are other opinions out there.<\/p>\n<p>alexmagic is clearly <em>The Man<\/em> here and those of you thinking <strong>Squeeze<\/strong> and <strong>The Specials<\/strong> were definitely in the stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4Sd6Cz9SNRY] Phil&#8217;s 1978 solo release, K-Scope, was recorded in the home studio of Chris Squier and featured Tim Finn on most lead vocals, Neil on on at least one backup and Split Enz\/Crowded House keyboardest Eddie Rayner. John Wetton and Bill MacCormick were all over it as well. I think if I had played the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-phil-manzanera-wit\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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\/2440"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}