{"id":3968,"date":"2009-01-28T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2009-01-27T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T22:18:42","slug":"happy-birthday-dave-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3968","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Dave Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u00a0hear me playing a solo on the electric guitar &#8211; and I&#8217;m having a good day and my amp is clicking on all six cylinders\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0I sound just a tad like\u00a0David Gilmour.<\/p>\n<p>But playing rhythm?\u00a0 Someone who knew my old band once told me I came off a lot like Dave Sharp.\u00a0 Which is odd, since my style was pretty well settled before I even <em>heard <\/em>the Alarm at any depth.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.\u00a0 Just saying.\u00a0 The guy has a style about him; like the Edge, but not quite as polished.\u00a0 Good example?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSN4W45rYvo\">Sure, here y&#8217;go<\/a>. Heck, I&#8217;m feeling good &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aA3CtkrwFcU\">here&#8217;s another<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=67-ppbEMZU0&#038;feature=related\">keep the change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davesharp.org\/\">former guitarist for The Alarm<\/a> turns fifty today.<\/p>\n<p>Wait &#8211; did I just say Dave Sharp is fifty?<\/p>\n<p>Oy.\u00a0 I believe I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u00a0hear me playing a solo on the electric guitar &#8211; and I&#8217;m having a good day and my amp is clicking on all six cylinders\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0I sound just a tad like\u00a0David Gilmour. But playing rhythm?\u00a0 Someone who knew my old band once told me I came off a lot like Dave Sharp.\u00a0 Which is odd, [&hellip;]<\/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-3968","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\/3968","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=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}