{"id":170,"date":"2006-01-26T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T15:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2006-01-26T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T15:32:35","slug":"wicked-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/wicked-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wicked&#8221; Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know, Wilson Pickett passed away last week at the age of 64. His music was a great influence to many of the musicians of our time. When I first started playing, I learned how to play by listening to his records, backed by the mighty Stax\/Volt tandem, including Donald &#8220;Duck&#8221; Dunn &#038; Steve Cropper. In my time I didn&#8217;t know of a band whose set list didn&#8217;t include &#8220;In the Midnight Hour&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Mustang Sally&#8221;. I venture to say Dunn &#038; Cropper laid the foundation for generations of music to come. I&#8217;ll go one further and say if it wasn&#8217;t for Duck Dunn, there may not have been a Chris Squire or a Jaco Pastorius! If you haven&#8217;t already seen it, I recommend a movie that was based on his music, The Commitments&#8221;. Thanks for the memories, Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know, Wilson Pickett passed away last week at the age of 64. His music was a great influence to many of the musicians of our time. When I first started playing, I learned how to play by listening to his records, backed by the mighty Stax\/Volt tandem, including Donald &#8220;Duck&#8221; Dunn &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}