{"id":56189,"date":"2014-11-02T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56189"},"modified":"2014-11-02T20:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T01:04:45","slug":"a-legend-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56189","title":{"rendered":"A Legend Has Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/530177\/Jack-Bruce-Cream-bassist\">Jack Bruce has passed<\/a>.\u00a0 He died on 25 October 2014 of liver disease, aged 71.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m guessing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/fameandfortune\/8932131\/Former-Cream-bassist-Jack-Bruce-I-squandered-too-much-money-on-drugs.html\">his admittedly heavy use of chemicals<\/a> may well have been partly to blame.\u00a0 That was his choice in life.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking you recall the name, you should.\u00a0 If you ever heard anything by Cream &#8211; Bruce was the one that provided the bass, and probably wrote most or all of the song.\u00a0 He was a damn talented and innovative musician and a groundbreaking bassist for popular music.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce was also one helluva songwriter.\u00a0 Reputedly, the one featured below was mostly his &#8211; as were most of Cream&#8217;s songs.\u00a0 It all evens out, I guess; though a guy named Eric gets the kudos for his guitar work thereon, Bruce ended up with more of the royalties.<\/p>\n<p>RIP, Jack.\u00a0 We hardly knew ye.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/i2Y410pt_hU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Bruce has passed.\u00a0 He died on 25 October 2014 of liver disease, aged 71. Yeah, &hellip; <a title=\"A Legend Has Passed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56189\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Legend Has Passed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,172,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-geezer-alert","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}