{"id":2722,"date":"2010-05-05T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T03:40:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-16T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:28:52","slug":"rock-s-groundbreaking-harp-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-groundbreaking-harp-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock&#8217;s Groundbreaking Harpist: Maureen Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XbGYC5Kyq9U?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Some time ago I questioned whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/triple-your-pleasure-with-joanna-newsom-1#c38296\" target=\"_blank\">anyone&#8217;s ever wanted to hear rock &#8216;n roll featuring a harp<\/a>. Then <strong>Mean Mr. Moderator<\/strong> felt the need to hijack my thread with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-explain-how-is-taking-cheap-shots-at-joanna-newsom-any-different-than-the-cheap-shots-taken-at-any-other-musician-whose-music-someone-doesn-t-like-such-as-pat-benetar-billy-joel-or-even-michael#c39760\" target=\"_blank\">his own thoughts<\/a> on <strong>Ravi Shankar<\/strong> and the fact that rock fans from the &#8217;60s have yet to identify the second-best sitar player in the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/maureen_love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/maureen_love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"611\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Rock&#8217;s second-best harp player!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, little did we know that long before <strong>Joanna Newsom<\/strong> burst onto the scene with her mad harp <em>skillz<\/em>, <strong>Maureen Love<\/strong>, sister of The Beach Boys&#8217; frontman, Mike, was laying down harp <em>traxx<\/em> on the band&#8217;s &#8220;Catch a Wave,&#8221; from the <em>Surfer Girl<\/em> sessions. The harp first enters at the <strong>21-second mark<\/strong>, and Maureen has the good sense to refrain from caterwauling.<\/p>\n<p>Love would not just ride the coattails of her famous brother. She&#8217;s carved out her own career as both a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maureenlove.com\/harpist.htm\" target=\"_blank\">harpist<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maureenlove.com\/maingallery.htm\" target=\"_blank\">photographer<\/a>. More power to her, and more power to rock &#8216;n roll&#8217;s long tradition of harp players!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I questioned whether anyone&#8217;s ever wanted to hear rock &#8216;n roll featuring a harp. Then Mean Mr. Moderator felt the need to hijack my thread with his own thoughts on Ravi Shankar and the fact that rock fans from the &#8217;60s have yet to identify the second-best sitar player in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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\/2722"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}