{"id":5180,"date":"2011-01-06T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2011-01-06T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:55:24","slug":"mystery-date-revealed-static-taxi-featuring-deposed-replacements-guitarist-bob-stinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-static-taxi-featuring-deposed-replacements-guitarist-bob-stinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date Revealed: Static Taxi, Featuring Deposed Replacements&#8217; Guitarist Bob Stinson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/MysteryDateRevealed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"490\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Your Mystery Date Be a Dream or a Dud?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yep, <strong>Bob Stinson<\/strong> actually lent his bizarre, energetic, sloppy, interestingly failed\u00a0hard rock chops to another band following The Replacements. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Static-Taxi\/56357871281\" target=\"_blank\">Static Taxi<\/a><\/strong>, a local Minneapolis band led by <strong>Ray Reigsted<\/strong>, recorded 2 albums&#8217; worth of material in the late 1980s-very early 1990, prior to Stinson&#8217;s death in 1995. I forgot Stinson lived that long! The title of the Mystery Date song was &#8220;FAFA.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a more tuneful one, &#8220;Max Factor,&#8221; also from the band&#8217;s second posthumous album, <em>Closer 2 Normal<\/em>. In some ways, I can better enjoy Stinson&#8217;s playing in this band. There&#8217;s less for him to step over; more for him to &#8220;make interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Static-Taxi_01_Max-Factor.mp3|titles=Static Taxi, &#8220;Max Factor&#8221;]\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, Bob Stinson actually lent his bizarre, energetic, sloppy, interestingly failed\u00a0hard rock chops to another band following The Replacements. Static Taxi, a local Minneapolis band led by Ray Reigsted, recorded 2 albums&#8217; worth of material in the late 1980s-very early 1990, prior to Stinson&#8217;s death in 1995. I forgot Stinson lived that long! The title <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-static-taxi-featuring-deposed-replacements-guitarist-bob-stinson\/' 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":[2,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180"}],"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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}