{"id":2129,"date":"2015-06-05T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:55:19","slug":"music-friday-prequel-appetizer-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-prequel-appetizer-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; prequel (appetizer) edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-prequel-appetizer-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; prequel (appetizer) edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Welcome at long last to another Music Friday!<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re going to drill down to the bedrock that the foundation of my musical tastes are built upon. \u00a0You may remember that over the last few months I have been trying to determine my &#8220;peak music year&#8221; by examining the BillBoard Hot 100 music charts and that based on those charts <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I had eliminated 1972, &#8217;73 and &#8217;74<\/a> as possibilities for consideration. \u00a0However, there was much music I liked that occured during those years that did not appear on the charts, much of it by artists like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Doobie_Brothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Doobie Brothers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_McDonald_(singer)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael McDonald<\/a> and of course <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steely_Dan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steely Dan<\/a>. \u00a0There is something &#8211; or rather some<em>one<\/em> &#8211; that The Doobies and Steely Dan have in common: \u00a0Michael McDonald. \u00a0Don&#8217;t believe me? \u00a0Here&#8217;s the proof:<\/p>\n<p>Steely Dan with Michael McDonald: <em>Pretzel Logic live<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m7EJGXa-5Rc?si=umVRs5hlBSCZYMZk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald: <em>Minute by Minute live<\/em> (note &#8211; long intro skip ahead to 2:20)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHLZfyU4k4U\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OK, there&#8217;s the appetizer. \u00a0Main course right below &#8211; scroll down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Welcome at long last to another Music Friday! Today we&#8217;re going to drill down to the bedrock that the foundation of my musical tastes are built upon. \u00a0You may remember that over the last few months I have been trying to determine my &#8220;peak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}