{"id":1247,"date":"2015-06-28T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2015-06-28T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:21:11","slug":"rip-chris-squire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2015\/06\/28\/rip-chris-squire\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Chris Squire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bass guitar players passed away.  If you want to see some over-the-top, goofy and amazing bass guitar playing for ten minutes, watch this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aDIAyS0heLI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video doesn&#8217;t convey it accurately, live in concert, the bass would rattle your teeth, it was a sight to behold and hear.  <\/p>\n<p>Chris was always a man of excess, both on stage and in his personal life.  One of my favorite instruments that he would bring on stage was a TRIPLE-NECKED guitar (4 string bass, 6 string standard electric, 4 string fretless) for &#8220;Awaken&#8221;  It was a gigantic monster that only he could tame.<\/p>\n<p>One of the songs that Chris would play during his solo was &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; inspired by his youth as a choir boy in England.  I don&#8217;t know what his relationship with the Lord was, like I said he was a man of excess, though it wasn&#8217;t his hard living that killed him, it was cancer, but I hope he has found peace at the end.  And thanks for all the music, I can&#8217;t wait to see Yes in August and see what they do to honor his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bass guitar players passed away. If you want to see some over-the-top, goofy and amazing bass guitar playing for ten minutes, watch this: The video doesn&#8217;t convey it accurately, live in concert, the bass would rattle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2015\/06\/28\/rip-chris-squire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-n-roll-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}