{"id":2131,"date":"2015-06-05T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T21:36:07","slug":"music-friday-deep-in-the-weeds-entree-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-deep-in-the-weeds-entree-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Deep In The Weeds (Entree) 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-deep-in-the-weeds-entree-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Deep In The Weeds (Entree) 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>I said deep in the WEEDS, not deep in the weed.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Fagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Fagen<\/a>, one of the founders of Steely Dan talking about the composition of one of their songs, <em>Chain Lightning<\/em>. &nbsp;He goes way, way <em>way<\/em> into detail. &nbsp;One of the reasons why Steely Dan is so popular among musicians is that there is really some craft that goes into their &#8220;meaningless&#8221; songs. &nbsp;There is some &#8220;there&#8221; there if you know where to look for it &#8211; kind of like an inside joke. &nbsp;Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4K8RfOSa90\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>Now just the song without the lecture.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CziTcShxjdg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>Oh yeah. &nbsp;Don&#8217;t bother to understand&#8230;don&#8217;t question the little man&#8230;be part of the brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Chain Lightnin&#8217;&#8230;Feels <em>So<\/em> Good. &nbsp;How did you like your meat &#8216;n potatoes? &nbsp;Dessert&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I said deep in the WEEDS, not deep in the weed. Here is Donald Fagen, one of the founders of Steely Dan talking about the composition of one of their songs, Chain Lightning. &nbsp;He goes way, way way into detail. &nbsp;One of the reasons&#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-2131","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\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}