{"id":209,"date":"2009-02-16T20:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/wordpress\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-02-16T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:54:21","slug":"louie-bellson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Louie Bellson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Louie Bellson\" src=\"http:\/\/imaging.lefora.com\/reduce\/?url=http%3A\/\/www.louiebellson.info\/images\/bellsonatdrumset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"121\" \/>Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, aka<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louie_Bellson\"> Louie Bellson<\/a>, died on Saturday. Louie was the pioneer of the double bass drum set&#8211;something seen frequently among hard rock and heavy metal drummers today. Interestingly, other than Louie and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drummerworld.com\/pics\/drum40\/ed_shaughnessy.jpg\">Ed Shaugnessy<\/a>, I can&#8217;t think of any other Jazzers who used two basses. Anyway, here&#8217;s to you, Louie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, aka Louie Bellson, died on Saturday. Louie was the pioneer of the double bass drum set&#8211;something seen frequently among hard rock and heavy metal drummers today. Interestingly, other than Louie and Ed Shaugnessy, I can&#8217;t think of any other Jazzers who used two basses. Anyway, here&#8217;s to you, Louie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-brhythm","post-209","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}