{"id":2481,"date":"2009-12-29T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-29T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T12:02:14","slug":"rock-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Frauds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/magicalex.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"186\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In discussing the legendary Beatles hanger-on and rock fraud <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/many-faces-of-magic-alex-mardas.html\" target=_blank>Magic Alex<\/a><\/strong> last night, <strong>Townsman Oats<\/strong> wondered what other rock frauds must have weasled their way into the inner workings of successful rock bands and become part of the &#8220;creative process.&#8221; For purposes of this discussion, let&#8217;s leave out band managers and other &#8220;suits.&#8221; That lot tends to be, if at all competent, full of hot air. We&#8217;re looking for people who&#8217;ve worked their way into recording sessions, songwriting credits, and the like while displaying no actual talent. Also for purposes of this discussion, we will not allow the inclusion of spouses, like <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong> and <strong>Linda McCartney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing the legendary Beatles hanger-on and rock fraud Magic Alex last night, Townsman Oats wondered what other rock frauds must have weasled their way into the inner workings of successful rock bands and become part of the &#8220;creative process.&#8221; For purposes of this discussion, let&#8217;s leave out band managers and other &#8220;suits.&#8221; That lot <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-frauds\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481"}],"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=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}