{"id":194,"date":"2010-05-28T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-05-28T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:24:15","slug":"the-charmed-musical-life-of-don-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"The charmed musical life of Don Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rolling Stones fan&#8217;s idea of heaven would be something like living in the skin of Don Was. The bassist and record producer was, for years, a huge Stones fan, having seen them live countless times, including as a kid during the group&#8217;s first wave of British Invasion popularity in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the early 1990s, Was &#8212; who appears with his band Was Not Was at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival on Sunday &#8212; became the Stones&#8217; record producer, and has helped them shape their studio sound ever since, producing every studio album since 1994&#8217;s &#8220;Voodoo Lounge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got the best seat in the house,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/entertainment\/ci_15171590\" target='_blank'>Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rolling Stones fan&#8217;s idea of heaven would be something like living in the skin of Don Was. The bassist and record producer was, for years, a huge Stones fan, having seen them live countless times, including as a kid during the group&#8217;s first wave of British Invasion popularity in the 1960s. Then, in the [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}