{"id":77377,"date":"2021-04-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77377"},"modified":"2021-04-04T20:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:50:35","slug":"the-2020-bad-news-just-keeps-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77377","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 Bad News Just Keeps Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t even aware of this last December &#8211; but longtime saxophone player in Bob Seger&#8217;s Silver Bullet Band, Alto Reed (born Thomas Cartmell) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/brian-mccollum\/2020\/12\/30\/alto-reed-dies-obituary\/4088034001\/\">passed away last December 30.  He was 72<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His most famous song with Seger was one of his first &#8211; the iconic sax part from 1972&#8217;s &#8220;Turn the Page&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Turn The Page-Live Bob Seger\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3wC3us4_BgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But for my money, I&#8217;ll go with this reworking of what had been Muscle Shoals guitar player Allan Carr&#8217;s ephemeral guitar part on &#8220;Mainstreet&#8221; &#8211; probably my favorite Seger song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mainstreet by Bob Seger at Jimmy Kimmel Live!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvwsBnXHizg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t even aware of this last December &#8211; but longtime saxophone player in Bob Seger&#8217;s Silver Bullet Band, Alto Reed (born Thomas Cartmell) passed away last December 30. He was 72. His most famous song with Seger was one of his first &#8211; the iconic sax part from 1972&#8217;s &#8220;Turn the Page&#8221;: But for [&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-77377","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\/77377","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=77377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77378,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77377\/revisions\/77378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}