{"id":2987,"date":"2006-05-03T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T10:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/05\/03\/frusciantes-zappa-band-audition"},"modified":"2006-05-03T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T10:37:01","slug":"frusciantes-zappa-band-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/05\/03\/frusciantes-zappa-band-audition","title":{"rendered":"Frusciante&#8217;s Zappa Band Audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time he was 16, John Frusciante had mastered all of Frank Zappa&#8217;s guitar solos and had even auditioned for Zappa&#8217;s band, <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/music\/features\/article361666.ece\">a sobering experience<\/a> that drew him up short.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was sitting there thinking, do you want to be a rock star and write your own songs and draw all the girls,&#8221; he told Mojo magazine, &#8220;or do you want to be in Frank Zappa&#8217;s band, where you&#8217;ll be told what to do all the time, not allowed to take drugs, and it&#8217;s kind of a square band so there&#8217;s not going to be a lot of girls at the shows?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of a square band. <em>Ha!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time he was 16, John Frusciante had mastered all of Frank Zappa&#8217;s guitar solos and had even auditioned for Zappa&#8217;s band, a sobering experience that drew him up short. &#8220;I was sitting there thinking, do you want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/05\/03\/frusciantes-zappa-band-audition\">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":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-zappa-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}