{"id":2900,"date":"2006-03-13T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T13:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/03\/13\/rip-martin-lickert"},"modified":"2006-03-13T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T13:11:55","slug":"rip-martin-lickert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/03\/13\/rip-martin-lickert","title":{"rendered":"RIP Martin Lickert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lickert, the guy who played\/replaced Jeff Simmons in Zappa&#8217;s 200 Motels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,,1729597,00.html\" title=\"scroll down to the end of the article\">has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jeff Simmons, the Mothers&#8217; bass player, had left the group and Zappa was unable to find anyone to play him. In exasperation, he told his entourage the next person to walk into the room would have the part. In walked Lickert, who had gone to buy cigarettes for his boss, Ringo. He was hired, and performed adequately, but became a better barrister than he was a bass player&#8217;s stand-in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lickert, the guy who played\/replaced Jeff Simmons in Zappa&#8217;s 200 Motels, has died. Jeff Simmons, the Mothers&#8217; bass player, had left the group and Zappa was unable to find anyone to play him. In exasperation, he told his entourage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/03\/13\/rip-martin-lickert\">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":[2,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-in-the-news","category-zappa-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","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=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}