{"id":6334,"date":"2011-03-18T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T13:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2011-03-18T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T13:06:38","slug":"gearhead-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/gearhead-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearhead Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic for this post came to me today when I ran across this documentary (or is it a long-form ad?) about the <strong>Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal<\/strong>. I remembered <strong>George Harrison<\/strong>&#8216;s song &#8220;Wah-Wah&#8221; from <em>All Things Must Pass<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wah-wah\/You&#8217;ve given me a wah-wah<\/p><\/blockquote><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20902369?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Now, I&#8217;ve read that George was using the term &#8220;wah-wah&#8221; to refer to a headache, which recording <em>Let It Be<\/em> with Paul in the director&#8217;s chair apparently gave him, literally or metaphorically enough to quit. But still, I like to think of the song as an ode to that piece of gear.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are there other good songs about beloved musical equipment or instruments?<\/em> Generic instrument references like <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221; and <strong>Talking Heads<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;Electric Guitar&#8221; (great lyrics, by the way!) are plentiful, but what about more particular instruments, like <strong>B.B. King<\/strong>&#8216;s guitar &#8220;Lucille,&#8221; or specific items, like a Vox Amp or a Gretsch guitar, in songs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic for this post came to me today when I ran across this documentary (or is it a long-form ad?) about the Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal. I remembered George Harrison&#8216;s song &#8220;Wah-Wah&#8221; from All Things Must Pass. Wah-wah\/You&#8217;ve given me a wah-wah Now, I&#8217;ve read that George was using the term &#8220;wah-wah&#8221; to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/gearhead-songs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1867,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[437,164,436,37,22,438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334"}],"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\/1867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}