{"id":1150,"date":"2022-11-25T03:53:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T03:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:17","slug":"riffs-and-the-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/riffs-and-the-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Riffs and the Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/album.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1152\" width=\"288\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/album.jpg 720w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/album-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Keep<em> the <\/em>thought!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The Featured pic is of the late Ed King and last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gary Rossington.  I have seen them about five times now. They are great. Ed is the riff master for the intro of &#8220;Sweet Home Alabama&#8221; the rest is history. <br><br>     I think Ed was smart to leave early&#8230;.it likely saved his life. Everyone KNOWS the first three albums produced by Al Kooper were the standard. Tom Dowd couldn&#8217;t mix two eggs according to King, as I am sure he would know.  <br><br>      Everyone knows the &#8220;Christmas&#8221; album is cringe worthy&#8230;&#8230;.but I feel like Johnny Van Zant wants to do a gospel, but has a fear that it would be rejected. Barry Lee Harwood would be a great resource&#8230;<br><br>Look Up <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Featured pic is of the late Ed King and last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gary Rossington. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/guitar-heros.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}