{"id":28807,"date":"2019-11-18T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=28807"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:35:39","slug":"chuck-prophet-releases-prophetable-new-song-as-high-as-johnny-thunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2019-11\/chuck-prophet-releases-prophetable-new-song-as-high-as-johnny-thunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Prophet Releases  Prophetable New Song &#8220;As High As Johnny Thunders&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chuck-Thunders.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chuck-Thunders.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chuck-Thunders-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chuck-Thunders-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have been fans of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckprophet.com\/\">Chuck <\/a>Prophet<\/strong> in his various guises (<strong>Green On Red<\/strong>, solo, with <strong>The Mission Express<\/strong>, etc.) for at least two lives. Simply put, <strong>Prophet<\/strong> is one of America&#8217;s best songwriters and guitar-players, not to mention comedians. During those two lives, we haven&#8217;t stopped dragging ourselves around to see <strong>Prophet<\/strong> perform wherever and whenever possible.  <strong>Prophet <\/strong>has written some of the great gems of the American songbook, including <strong><em>No Other Love, Summertime Thing, Would You Love Me?, <\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>You Did (Bomp Shooby Doobie Bomp)<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Willie Mays Is Up To Bat, Castro Halloween<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Wish Me Luck<\/em><\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now comes the great news that <strong>Prophet<\/strong> has released another song to add to that hallowed list: <strong><em>As High As Johnny Thunders<\/em><\/strong>, which you can listen to at the usual sources <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/johnnythunders\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> (the song was  co-written with <strong>klipschutz<\/strong>).  For those unaware, <strong>Johnny Thunders<\/strong> was a notoriously raucous member of <strong>The New York Dolls<\/strong> and <strong>The Heartbreakers<\/strong> who, among other things, gave the world another great song, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TknY89kECq0\">You Can&#8217;t Put Your Arms Around A Memory<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. before succumbing years later to overdose in 1991&#8211;hence <strong>Prophet&#8217;s<\/strong> song&#8217;s reference to &#8220;high as&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>As High As Johnny Thunders<\/em><\/strong> was recorded as part of <strong>Episode 3 <\/strong>of the show <strong><em>Sites &amp; Sounds<\/em><\/strong> (sponsored by Southwest Airlines &amp; Luck Reunion), which you can watch <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southwest.fm\/sites-and-sounds\/episode-3\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> . In the episode, <strong>Prophet<\/strong> takes on the role of San Francisco tour guide and takes musician <strong>Aaron Lee Tasjan<\/strong> to some of the best hidden spots in San Francisco, including <strong>The Make-Out Room<\/strong>\u00a0concert venue where <strong>Prophet<\/strong> and cohorts perform the new song (at minute 25:00).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song and episode are further evidence of <strong>Prophet&#8217;s<\/strong> estimable powers as a songwriter, musician and comedian (if you don&#8217;t believe us on the funny-front, do yourselves a favor and sign up for his great newsletter <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chuckprophet.fanbridge.com\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catch him if you can! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been fans of Chuck Prophet in his various guises (Green On Red, solo, with The Mission Express, etc.) for at least two lives. Simply put, Prophet is one of America&#8217;s best songwriters and guitar-players, not to mention comedians. During those two lives, we haven&#8217;t stopped dragging ourselves around to see Prophet perform wherever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28807","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\/28807","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=28807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28813,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions\/28813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}