{"id":13596,"date":"2012-11-14T23:14:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T07:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2012-11-14T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T07:14:42","slug":"jangle-on-watch-johnny-marrs-video-for-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-11\/jangle-on-watch-johnny-marrs-video-for-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Jangle On!  Watch Johnny Marr&#8217;s Video for &#8220;Messenger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We attended <strong>Modest Mouse&#8217;s<\/strong> last show at the <strong>Santa Barbara Bowl<\/strong> for two reasons.\u00a0 First, and foremost, was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnny-marr.com\/\"><strong>Johnny Marr<\/strong><\/a> (of The Smiths&#8211;<strong>The Smiths!!<\/strong>) was lending his guitar magic to the band on its tour.\u00a0 Second, was something about some bloke named <strong>Brock<\/strong>.\u00a0 And that night Marr delivered in spades the je-ne-c&#8217;est-quoi that is his guitar mastery.\u00a0 He has a sound all his own.\u00a0 How does he do it? \u00a0 No one knows how he wrangles the sounds he does from those six-string instruments and amps, and it&#8217;s just as well.<\/p>\n<p>Comes now (all these post-Smiths years later) that Marr will soon release his first (what the heck took so long?) self-titled solo album.\u00a0 To get a flavor, check out the first video for <em><strong>Messenger<\/strong> <\/em>from the new album.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Smiths\/REM meets Nada Surf, and look out below.\u00a0 We absolutely love it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Johnny Marr - The Messenger [Official Video]\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d2W8aVDxeBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We attended Modest Mouse&#8217;s last show at the Santa Barbara Bowl for two reasons.\u00a0 First, and foremost, was that Johnny Marr (of The Smiths&#8211;The Smiths!!) was lending his guitar magic to the band on its tour.\u00a0 Second, was something about some bloke named Brock.\u00a0 And that night Marr delivered in spades the je-ne-c&#8217;est-quoi that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}