{"id":142,"date":"2007-05-09T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=142"},"modified":"2013-08-03T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T20:58:20","slug":"new-music-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"New music sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock music.  What happened to guitar solos?  Why do bands not do that anymore?  It doesn&#8217;t have to be a long fast 2 minute thing, just a short section.<BR><BR>Even bands that used to make it a point to have a nice long one in every song like Metallica. Kirk Hammett hasn&#8217;t had any sort of solo in his last few albums which is crazy.  What happened to him?  A solo is how a guitarist puts in his creative stamp on a song.  You&#8217;d think they could hardly wait so they could bust out and express themselves.  Now its all power chords and memorable hooks.  You don&#8217;t need two rhythm guitarists for that crap.<BR><BR>Remember the solos in Aerosmith &#8211; Amazing, Guns &#8216;N Roses &#8211; November Rain, Metallica &#8211; One, Pink Floyd &#8211; Comfortably Numb, Led Zeppelin &#8211; Stairway to Heaven, Lynard Skynard &#8211; Free Bird etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock music. What happened to guitar solos? Why do bands not do that anymore? It doesn&#8217;t have to be a long fast 2 minute thing, just a short section.Even bands that used to make it a point to have a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/?p=142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75YnM-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoff.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}