{"id":9847,"date":"2011-10-29T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T00:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2011-10-30T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:00:45","slug":"the-greatest-add-on-instrument-in-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-greatest-add-on-instrument-in-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Add-On Instrument in Rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQ_JAgHxR14?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I can&#8217;t think of an instrument that makes me smile more than the <strong>pedal steel guitar<\/strong>.  Every time it makes an appearance in a song I instantly like that song.  It makes ordinary country songs totally likable&#8230;and makes country wannabe songs totally like\\able too.  The tone, the vibe&#8230;oh yeah, baby.  Everyone from the Beatles, Stones, Byrds, Zepp, Neil Young &#8212; even the Monkees &#8212; have benefited from this ace-in-the-hole add-on.<\/p>\n<p>I never have the same feeling about any other instrument.  I never get that head-bobbing smile say, when a sax comes in&#8230;or when vibes come in.  Even my beloved <strong>Farfisa<\/strong> can&#8217;t top it.  For this reason I vote the pedal steel as The Greatest Add-On Instrument in Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Can I get an Amen&#8230;a list of fave pedal steel songs&#8230;or I challenge you to top this greatest of instruments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t think of an instrument that makes me smile more than the pedal steel guitar. Every time it makes an appearance in a song I instantly like that song. It makes ordinary country songs totally likable&#8230;and makes country wannabe songs totally like\\able too. The tone, the vibe&#8230;oh yeah, baby. Everyone from the Beatles, Stones, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-greatest-add-on-instrument-in-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"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\/9847"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}