{"id":5624,"date":"2011-02-02T17:44:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T21:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2011-02-03T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T13:49:00","slug":"your-signature-piece-of-gear-whether-you-own-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-signature-piece-of-gear-whether-you-own-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Your \u201cSignature\u201d Piece of Gear, Whether You Own It or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09dcrG6hOkk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>We all know <strong>Townsman Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong>&#8216;s most-coveted, would-be &#8220;signature&#8221; piece of gear is the <strong>&#8220;harlequin&#8221; Gibson Firebird<\/strong> played by <strong>Adrian Gurvitz<\/strong>, of Baker-Gurvitz Army fame. (<em>See <\/em>video.) <em>What piece of musical gear that you own or covet could be (or would be) considered your &#8220;signature&#8221; piece of gear?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not something I could carry around and impress folks with, but mine is my <a href=\"http:\/\/overlookedgems.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/maestro-parametric-filter.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Coltrane box,&#8221;<\/a> a <strong>Maestro Parametric Filter<\/strong>. If I had the energy to buy a signature axe and really learn to play the way I wish I could play I think I&#8217;d get a <strong>Fender Jazzmaster<\/strong>, like <strong>Tom Verlaine<\/strong>&#8216;s.<\/p>\n<p>Take it from me, you don&#8217;t have to be much of a musician (or a musician at all) to have an entry in this thread!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know Townsman Hrrundivbakshi&#8216;s most-coveted, would-be &#8220;signature&#8221; piece of gear is the &#8220;harlequin&#8221; Gibson Firebird played by Adrian Gurvitz, of Baker-Gurvitz Army fame. (See video.) What piece of musical gear that you own or covet could be (or would be) considered your &#8220;signature&#8221; piece of gear? It&#8217;s not something I could carry around and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-signature-piece-of-gear-whether-you-own-it-or-not\/' 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":[164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624"}],"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=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}