{"id":2847,"date":"2005-05-15T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T12:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/15\/2847.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:02","slug":"top-five-musical-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/15\/top-five-musical-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Musical Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Top Five Musical Heroes\nBefore I begin: Your Humble Blogger will quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=2032\">a Tohu Bohu note<\/a>:<blockquote>Your Humble Blogger uses the term &#8216;hero&#8217; for a bunch of people who are really really good at what they do, who in some way do what I would do if I wanted to be in their field and had hella talent and dedication. It&#8217;s not a great use of the word &#8216;hero&#8217;, since many of these people have performed no acts of heroism. They&#8217;re not exactly role models, either. Some of &#8217;em are assholes, and many of them are doing things I wouldn&#8217;t ever want to do. But they&#8217;re my people, and the emergence of, say, a new column by Jon Carroll or Molly Ivins, or a new Elvis Costello or Klezmatics album or a new Terry Gilliam movie is an Event for me.<\/blockquote>\n<ul><li>Duke Ellington<\/li>\n<li>Elvis Costello<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Sondheim<\/li>\n<li>Benny Goodman<\/li>\n<li>Klezmatics<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Benny Goodman gets a boost, actually, because I think of him as admirable, particularly in integrating his band in the late thirties, when doing so was a risk, just because Teddy Wilson was so damned good. Just left off were, um ... David Byrne, I suppose. Mark Knopfler. Cole Porter. XTC. Shane McGowan and the Pogues. Billie Holliday. Mel Torme. But now I&#8217;m well past the hero stage, and into the like-a-lot stage.\n<p>That&#8217;s the last of them, and it was a lot of fun. Maybe I&#8217;ll do a wrap-up, but I&#8217;m three book reports behind, now, and there&#8217;s always the possibility I will rouse myself to comment on the world outside of the arts as well.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Five Musical Heroes Before I begin: Your Humble Blogger will quote from a Tohu Bohu note:Your Humble Blogger uses the term \u2018hero\u2019 for a bunch of people who are really really good at what they do, who in some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17407,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/17407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}