{"id":911,"date":"2012-03-25T19:39:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T19:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-03-26T05:26:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T05:26:30","slug":"baroque-meets-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Baroque meets future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120325_jameslast01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nToday my father gave me this original <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Last\">James Last<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Viva-Vivaldi-Vinyl-James-Last\/dp\/B000091ESA\/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1332739484&#038;sr=1-3\">vinyl record from 1985<\/a>: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t these the drums you are interested in, son?&#8221; &#8220;Indeed!&#8221; I put the record on the player but too bad all drums had been acoustic. So the pads had been chosen for a particular purpose: the contrast between old and modern. This record cover (which provoked a constant grin in my face) is a perfect proof that in 1985 Simmons must have been the synonym for technology and future. I wonder why they showed 3 SDSV pads on the front cover but a white SDS8 on he back?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120325_jameslast02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my father gave me this original James Last vinyl record from 1985: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t these the drums you are interested in, son?&#8221; &#8220;Indeed!&#8221; I put the record on the player but too bad all drums had been acoustic. So the pads had been chosen for a particular purpose: the contrast between old and modern. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-and-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}