{"id":3816,"date":"2009-12-04T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T02:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2009-12-04T20:37:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T02:37:49","slug":"eric-woolfson-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2009\/12\/04\/eric-woolfson-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Woolfson RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The primary singer and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project passed away earlier this week according the NY Times<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Contrary to the band being named after his partner; the more famous recording engineer (practically everyone knows about Alan’s contributions to Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>); Eric did most of the writing.<\/p>\n

From reading the obit, I had no idea he was Carl Douglas’ manager (the dude behind “Kung Fu Fighting.”) The musical world can be a funny place when you find out who has worked with whom.<\/p>\n

Although most Prog Rock isn’t often my cup of tea (Helen says it best in her criticisms of Rush and Queensryche, to paraphrase, “Don’t tell me a stupid story, just sing the song in a decent amount of time!”) I feel Woolfson mastered the ability to synthesize the genre’s sound (or mindset) to the Pop\/Rock format long before Genesis and Yes did in the Eighties: “Can’t Take It With You,” “I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You,” “Damned If I Do,” and “Games People Play” appeared well before 1980. Many say Alan Parsons Project was rather cheesy too. Never mind the cool soundtrack they did for the movie Ladyhawke<\/em> or the song “Sirius” which was frequently used at sporting events such as introducing the opening line up of the Chicago Bulls in the Nineties or segments on Frasier<\/em> and Duckman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Alan Parsons Project will always remain one of the guilty musical pleasures of my life. I often heard them on WDBR and KLOL as a teenager so they were a part of my upbringing and musical education. Anybody who can turn the writings of Edgar Allen Poe into interesting, accessible songs deserves a round of applause and respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The primary singer and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project passed away earlier this week according the NY Times. Contrary to the band being named after his partner; the more famous recording engineer (practically everyone knows about Alan’s contributions to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}