{"id":133,"date":"2019-03-29T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/?p=133"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:40:25","slug":"led-zeppelin-unplugged-or-unbearable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/led-zeppelin-unplugged-or-unbearable\/","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin Unplugged &#8212; or Unbearable?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finally, after some 20 years not even touching a guitar I broke down and re-stringed Erika&#8217;s old Martin acoustic.  Erika bought me classical guitar strings for Christmas, I adjusted the bridge and <em>voila!  <\/em>it plays!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now if only I could play!  Of course we old wheezers have to start somewhere, why not with some blues?  I have an mp3 of &#8220;Since I&#8217;ve been Loving You&#8221; on an iPod, uploaded it to my laptop and imported it into Audacity.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there I just wailed away with rest of the band. See?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jimmy-page-with-acoustic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve picked yourself up off the floor, here&#8217;s what really happens.   I highlight a very small section of the song, slow it way, way down without changing the pitch, and struggle to follow Page&#8217;s playing.  Believe it or not, I&#8217;ve made it through the first 10 bars of the song.  It even sounds halfway decent played that slowly, especially when I&#8217;m wearing my headphones so all I hear is Led Zeppelin.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after some 20 years not even touching a guitar I broke down and re-stringed Erika&#8217;s old Martin acoustic. Erika bought me classical guitar strings for Christmas, I adjusted the bridge and voila! it plays! Now if only I could play! Of course we old wheezers have to start somewhere, why not with some blues? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/led-zeppelin-unplugged-or-unbearable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Led Zeppelin Unplugged &#8212; or Unbearable?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jandemoore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}