{"id":2576,"date":"2010-02-23T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T11:40:40","slug":"shocking-photos-of-musicians-playing-unexpected-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shocking-photos-of-musicians-playing-unexpected-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Photos of Musicians Playing Unexpected Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/elvisbass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/elvisbass.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"522\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Say what?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For some reason this photo of <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong> playing bass always makes me do a double-take. Of course he was capable of doing more than holstering a guitar &#8211; and every guitarist knows it&#8217;s not too hard to pick up a bass and fake it now and then &#8211; but Elvis seems too regal for the bass. I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s a bit like seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8I0v2bVX8j4\" target=_blank><strong>Carl Wilson<\/strong> play drums<\/a> (thanks to <strong>Townsman bobbybittman<\/strong> for directing me to this video of a relative masterpiece among post-Brian turds).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Beach Boys photographed on unexpected instruments, the following came to mind:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/BeachboysDrums1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/BeachboysDrums1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">CAUTION: Genius on Drums.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>What photos of musicians playing unexpected instruments shock you to this day?<\/em> If you can cite a link, please do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what? For some reason this photo of Elvis Presley playing bass always makes me do a double-take. Of course he was capable of doing more than holstering a guitar &#8211; and every guitarist knows it&#8217;s not too hard to pick up a bass and fake it now and then &#8211; but Elvis seems too <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shocking-photos-of-musicians-playing-unexpected-instruments\/' 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\/2576"}],"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=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}