{"id":395,"date":"2020-05-14T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2020-05-14T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:23:07","slug":"a-tribute-to-adam-schlesinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-tribute-to-adam-schlesinger\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Adam Schlesinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I WROTE A NEW SONG!<\/p>\n<p>Here it is in super rough demo format, complete with bad drumming, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NeverReallySayingGoodbye-demo-20200514mix.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption><strong>Never Really Saying Goodbye<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a tribute to one of my favorite songwriters and musicians, ever. Adam Schlesinger was very important to my development as a musician and songwriter, and his sense of melody and lyricism and endless hooks were a bottomless well of inspiration to me. He passed away earlier this year from complications from COVID-19, one of the first people of note (to me, at least) to fall victim to this horrible disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoy it and it makes you smile. It&#8217;s my first song written since December 2015. Hopefully this inspires me to get more stuff written and recorded. I mean, my friend Dennis C. Miller just released his second album, so I lost his challenge (I was to release my first before he released his second).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m tired. I need to sleep. I thank you for reading and hopefully giving it a listen. Rest in peace, Adam. Good night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I WROTE A NEW SONG! Here it is in super rough demo format, complete with bad drumming, etc.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tribute to one of my favorite songwriters and musicians, ever. Adam Schlesinger was very important to my development as a musician and songwriter, and his sense of melody and lyricism and endless hooks were a bottomless well of inspiration to me. He passed away earlier this year from complications from COVID-19, one of the first people of note (to me,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-tribute-to-adam-schlesinger\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}