{"id":371,"date":"2007-03-12T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:56:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:56:48","slug":"prakash-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/prakash-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Prakash John Reflects on the Influence of Wagner and Hunter While I Reflect on the Death of Boston Lead Vocalist Brad Delp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From former <strong>Parliament\/Funkadelic<\/strong>, <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong>, and <strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong> bassist Prakash John, whose thoughts on the influence of <em>Rock &#8216;n Roll Animal<\/em>-era guitar tandem <strong>Dick Wagner<\/strong> and <strong>Steve Hunter<\/strong> I came across while reflecting on the death of Boston lead vocalist <strong>Brad Delp<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wagner and Hunter &#8211; I remember this clearly &#8211; all these guys that came after Wagner and Hunter in &#8217;73, all these guys in that band Aerosmith, and a band called Boston, they&#8217;d have those dueling guitar things, you know&#8230; leads, harmonizing &#8211; they got that all from Wagner and Hunter. These guys use to come and follow us all over the place &#8211; New York, Boston, wherever we were playing with Lou Reed. Next thing I know, I listen to their albums, and it sounds like Wagner and Hunter. And good for them, but people should acknowledge that Wagner and Hunter were the originators. They&#8217;re the guys who made that sound. If you hear that live album, Rock N Roll Animal, play the intro to &#8220;Sweet Jane.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrakis.es\/~e.miquel\/rnranimal\/loubands.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.arrakis.es\/~e.miquel\/rnranimal\/loubands.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lou Reed backing bands.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From former Parliament\/Funkadelic, Lou Reed, and Alice Cooper bassist Prakash John, whose thoughts on the influence of Rock &#8216;n Roll Animal-era guitar tandem Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter I came across while reflecting on the death of Boston lead vocalist Brad Delp: Wagner and Hunter &#8211; I remember this clearly &#8211; all these guys that <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/prakash-john\/' 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":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}