{"id":550,"date":"2007-03-10T00:10:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/10\/i-closed-my-eyes-and-it-slipped-away\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T15:50:34","slug":"i-closed-my-eyes-and-it-slipped-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"I Closed My Eyes, And It Slipped Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did the seventies have a voice?<\/p>\n<p>You could nominate quite a few voices for the title, of course; Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne, Paul McCartney, Barry Gibb, Eddie Kendricks, Linda Ronstadt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but if you were a teenager in the rural midwest,  huddled in your friends&#8217; basements, listening to their older brothers&#8217; records on their dads&#8217; stereos,  Brad Delp of Boston was probably on the short list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boston.org\/pictures\/Brad_Delp_More_Than_A_Feeling.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Delp &#8211; with a bit of help from Tom Scholz&#8217; extreme production style &#8211; was the high, clear, blazingly distinctive voice of a corporate rock band that still &#8211; at least on their incandescent first album &#8211; had a heart underneath all the pure technique.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boston.org\/pictures\/brad107-35_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/03\/10\/arts\/NA-A-E-CEL-US-Obit-Brad-Delp.php\">Delp was found dead yesterday<\/a>, at age 55.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the seventies have a voice? You could nominate quite a few voices for the title, of course; Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne, Paul McCartney, Barry Gibb, Eddie Kendricks, Linda Ronstadt&#8230; &#8230;but if you were a teenager in the rural midwest, huddled in your friends&#8217; basements, listening to their older brothers&#8217; records on their dads&#8217; stereos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}