{"id":2468,"date":"2005-06-18T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/06\/18\/european-ears"},"modified":"2005-06-18T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T08:11:47","slug":"european-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/06\/18\/european-ears","title":{"rendered":"European Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It turns out that he sold roughly four times as many records in the Old Continent than in the country that provided so much of the raw material for his scabrous satirising. Gail Zappa thinks it is to do with the centuries-old tradition of church music that has made European ears receptive and sophisticated (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dall we have is the marching band in the town square on July 4\u00e2\u20ac\u009d); but I also felt momentarily proud of that much-maligned phenomenon, the European sensibility. We got Zappa: his twists and turns, his reckless veering between high and low culture, his sarcasm, his innovations. These were all too much for his own country, which remains, relative to its size and power, culturally simplistic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/99c1504a-de1e-11d9-a42f-00000e2511c8.html\">Peter Asden meets Gail Zappa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that he sold roughly four times as many records in the Old Continent than in the country that provided so much of the raw material for his scabrous satirising. Gail Zappa thinks it is to do with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/06\/18\/european-ears\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-zappa-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}