{"id":1581,"date":"2007-11-07T05:41:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T10:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2007-11-07T07:32:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T12:32:35","slug":"stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vinnie “Mad Dog” Lopez may have been the worst drummer to ever record a major-label album.<\/p>\n

The New Jersey drummer, most famous <\/strike>known only for having played on Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings from Asbury Park <\/em>and The Wild, the Innocent and the Street Shuffle<\/em> – albums famous for swooping changes in rhythm for no good musical reason – was whacked from the E Street Band in 1974, replaced first with Ernie “Boom” Carter (who played on “Born to Run”) and finally Max Weinberg, both of whom could…well, keep a beat for starters.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting, then, to look at this video of the tribute band “Tramps Like Us”<\/a>, featuring Lopez on drums, doing a ’73-era Springsteen classic , “Thundercrack”.<\/p>\n

So – not only is he no better a drummer than ever, but he’s backing a bunch of singers that sound like a bunch of Italian soccer fans trying to sing harmony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vinnie “Mad Dog” Lopez may have been the worst drummer to ever record a major-label album. The New Jersey drummer, most famous known only for having played on Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings from Asbury Park and The Wild, the Innocent and the Street Shuffle – albums famous for swooping changes in rhythm for no good musical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}