{"id":165,"date":"2008-11-04T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-11-04T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T08:44:00","slug":"william-eggleston-something-i-should-have-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"William Eggleston &#8211; something I should have known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/red_ceiling-705154.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/red_ceiling-705147.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I get to what I should have known, let me remind you that <i>William Eggleston: The Democratic Camera<\/i> opens at the Whitney this week. <\/p>\n<p>Ok here is the interesting part. After the Velvet Underground many people would consider Big Star to be the most important bands no one really knows. (Bare with me on this poor choice of words) Anyway I was reading the liner notes to the third Big Star record (it&#8217;s called either <i>Third<\/i> or <i>Sisters Lovers<\/i>) and I stumbled over the name of the keyboard player in many of the sessions &#8211; that keyboardist is William Eggelston. Consider me floored.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge Alex Chilton\/Big Star fan and as close to an Eggleston fanboy as there is &#8211; so I thought I would share.<\/p>\n<p>Go vote.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Big-Star-Third-Sister-Love-705127.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 298px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Big-Star-Third-Sister-Love-705109.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get to what I should have known, let me remind you that William Eggleston: The Democratic Camera opens at the Whitney this week. Ok here is the interesting part. After the Velvet Underground many people would consider Big Star to be the most important bands no one really knows. (Bare with me on this poor choice of words) Anyway I was reading the liner notes to the third Big Star record (it&#8217;s called either Third or Sisters Lovers) and I stumbled over the name of the keyboard player in many of the sessions &#8211; that keyboardist is William&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=165\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Eggleston &#8211; something I should have known<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[160,161,166],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}