{"id":627,"date":"2007-03-26T07:04:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/26\/things-id-pay-a-lot-of-money-for\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T16:06:24","slug":"things-id-pay-a-lot-of-money-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;d Pay A Lot of Money To Hear Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was sometime late in 1986 when Dave Elvin managed to book Country Dick Montana, the eccentric drummer of California cowpunk band the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardowens.com\/dick\/\">Beat Farmers<\/a>, on the Don Vogel show.\u00a0 It was one of the most hilarious interviews of all time.\u00a0 We&#8217;d been using the Farmers&#8217; classic &#8220;Happy Boy&#8221; as a bumper whenever we needed to cheer Don up, either literally or theatrically.\u00a0 It always worked, of course &#8211; there are few funnier songs, ever.<\/p>\n<p>I remember nothing about the interview except that Montana, who claimed to have just stepped out of the shower, kept Vogel in stitches for twenty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Atomizer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraterslibertas.com\/2007_03_01_archive.html#6013309862482338305#6013309862482338305\">pays eloquent tribute <\/a>to Montana and the Farmers over at the Frats this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was sometime late in 1986 when Dave Elvin managed to book Country Dick Montana, the eccentric drummer of California cowpunk band the Beat Farmers, on the Don Vogel show.\u00a0 It was one of the most hilarious interviews of all time.\u00a0 We&#8217;d been using the Farmers&#8217; classic &#8220;Happy Boy&#8221; as a bumper whenever we needed [&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-627","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\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}