{"id":957,"date":"2013-09-04T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=957"},"modified":"2013-09-04T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:15:33","slug":"captain-beefhearts-10-rules-of-guitar-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/captain-beefhearts-10-rules-of-guitar-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Beefheart&#8217;s 10 Rules of Guitar Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of highlights, to go with this classic bit of damaged punky blues from 1980.  Morris Tepper played guitar for Beefheart in that lineup. Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2009\/03\/captain-beefhearts-10-commandments-of-guitar-playing.html\">full list at WFMU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Listen to the birds.<\/strong><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod.<\/strong><br \/>\nUse it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you&#8217;re good, you&#8217;ll land a big one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. If you&#8217;re guilty of thinking, you&#8217;re out<\/strong><br \/>\nIf your brain is part of the process, you&#8217;re missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Don&#8217;t wipe the sweat off your instrument<\/strong><br \/>\nYou need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music. <\/p>\n<p>(via dangerousminds.net)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of highlights, to go with this classic bit of damaged punky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[206,390,136,134,9,391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}