{"id":53379,"date":"2018-11-16T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=53379"},"modified":"2018-11-17T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T16:02:08","slug":"18-notes-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/18-notes-per-second\/","title":{"rendered":"18 notes per second, with a grin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the greatest guitar album ever recorded?<span id='easy-footnote-1-53379' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/18-notes-per-second\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-53379' title='I&amp;#8217;m restricting the question to popular music. Classical guitar is a world of its own, as is &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/how-to\/30-day-guitar-challenge-day-26-learn-allan-holdsworths-mind-blowing-signature-techniques&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Allan Holdsworth&lt;\/a&gt;.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surfing-Alien-Joe-Satriani\/dp\/B004DD3LAQ\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing with the Alien<\/a><\/i>? <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Performing-This-Ronnie-Scotts-Deluxe\/dp\/B00VRJ6DF4\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Performing this week &#8230; Live at Ronnie Scott&#8217;s<\/a><\/i>? <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Return-Hellecasters\/dp\/B004WMU6J2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Return of the Hellecasters<\/a><\/i>? Something by Danny Gatton, or Roy Buchanan?<\/p>\n<p>How about <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lightning-Fingers-Roy-Clark\/dp\/B005XOR4T8\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark<\/a><\/i>? Clark may have had the persona of a hayseed clown, but he could play guitar. Here&#8217;s a sample:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJJY41lrKBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-DjQ650DK5k\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s not as easy as it looks<\/a>. If you have any interest in guitar music, you need Roy Clark in your library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/roy-clark-country-music-legend-and-hee-haw-star-dead-at-85\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clark died yesterday<\/a> at the age of 85. <a href=\"http:\/\/wonderduck.mu.nu\/a_late-discovered_icon_passes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wonderduck has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the greatest guitar album ever recorded? Surfing with the Alien? Performing this week &#8230; Live at Ronnie Scott&#8217;s? The Return of the Hellecasters? Something by Danny Gatton, or Roy Buchanan? How about The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark? Clark may have had the persona of a hayseed clown, but he could play guitar. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/18-notes-per-second\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18 notes per second, with a grin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dead-people","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-dSX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53379"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53421,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53379\/revisions\/53421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}