{"id":6763,"date":"2011-04-13T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2011-04-13T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:04:20","slug":"critical-upgrade-ron-altbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-upgrade-ron-altbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Upgrade: Ron Altbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-SVB-EvYtNw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Mike Love<\/strong> knows talent when he sees it. Wait &#8217;til you hear this Altbach guy&#8217;s story and learn what early &#8217;70s hits he wrote. And he&#8217;s <em>classically trained<\/em>.\u00a0(Damn, I&#8217;ve got to finish up that Satanic Beach Boys piece!)<\/p>\n<p>This Altbach cat&#8217;s also got jazz chops. Check out this next clip, in which he jams with a <strong>Townsman dbuskirk<\/strong>-worthy jazzbo, <strong>Charles Lloyd<\/strong>. Lloyd knows talent\u2014and finely woven Navaho blankets to boot! Altbach, Mike Love, blankets, and more. Can you dig it?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stick with this thing to the end; it&#8217;s well worth your time.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vw-7aDokbso?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Love knows talent when he sees it. Wait &#8217;til you hear this Altbach guy&#8217;s story and learn what early &#8217;70s hits he wrote. And he&#8217;s classically trained.\u00a0(Damn, I&#8217;ve got to finish up that Satanic Beach Boys piece!) This Altbach cat&#8217;s also got jazz chops. Check out this next clip, in which he jams with <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-upgrade-ron-altbach\/' 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":[120,449,61,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763"}],"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=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}