{"id":448,"date":"2007-04-02T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T00:38:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:19:51","slug":"do-kick-ass-rock-guitar-riffs-preclude-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/do-kick-ass-rock-guitar-riffs-preclude-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Kick-Ass Rock Guitar Riffs Preclude Intelligent Lyrics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0uvr3dmptvg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m listening to today&#8217;s <em>tasty<\/em> Thrifty Music selection, Deep Purple&#8217;s &#8220;Rat Bat Blue&#8221;, and I&#8217;m struck by the thought that kick-ass rock guitar riffs may preclude intelligent lyrics. Does Rock Guitar Heroics require thinking with one&#8217;s dick? And you know what I&#8217;m talking about, SmartyPants &#8211; not Tom Verlaine or some other &#8220;brainy&#8221; guitarist. I&#8217;m talking about practitioners of Hot Licks from the late-60s Age of the Guitar Hero and beyond: <strong>Hendrix<\/strong>, Cream, <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Aerosmith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahoganyrush.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mahoganyrush.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Frank Marino&#8217;s Mahogany Rush<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the best lyric any of these fierce riff-driven artists has produced, &#8220;The Wind Cries Mary&#8221;? Name a <strong>mighty<\/strong> guitarist, and then name a song lyric associated with this artist that&#8217;s stupid, funny, or plain silly. I challenge you, and I shall determine which suggestions do not qualify.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m listening to today&#8217;s tasty Thrifty Music selection, Deep Purple&#8217;s &#8220;Rat Bat Blue&#8221;, and I&#8217;m struck by the thought that kick-ass rock guitar riffs may preclude intelligent lyrics. Does Rock Guitar Heroics require thinking with one&#8217;s dick? And you know what I&#8217;m talking about, SmartyPants &#8211; not Tom Verlaine or some other &#8220;brainy&#8221; guitarist. I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/do-kick-ass-rock-guitar-riffs-preclude-i\/' 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":[13,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}