{"id":1698,"date":"2015-01-06T04:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2015-01-06T04:35:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:35:27","slug":"my-king-diamond-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1698","title":{"rendered":"My King Diamond Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that King Diamond is the man.  Andy LaRocque, well, he&#8217;s the man as well (so you can point that fucking finger up your ass!)  Sorry&#8230;<b>Tool<\/b> lyrics there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, that duo has created some of the best music ever.  In fact, King with both bands may be the greatest musician in history, just judging by the number of top-notch albums&#8230;but I digress&#8230;again!<\/p>\n<p>With a new guitar in tow, a buddy suggested I re-record some acoustic awesomeness from the &#8217;80s.  His suggestion was <b>Drunken Wisdom<\/b> but I&#8217;ve been out of the <b>Overkill<\/b> loop for some time.  This morning, <B>A Visit From The Dead<\/b> came on random and that was it.  Could I pull this off?  I am in fact <b><i>not<\/i><\/b> the man and both Andy and Pete&#8217;s guitarwork on <b>Conspiracy<\/b> are perfect and glorious metal anthems.  So, while I can&#8217;t possibly live up to that blinding excellence, here&#8217;s my poor-man&#8217;s ode to King and 1989&#8217;s slab of excellence <b>Conspiracy<\/b>.  Busted out in an evening, replete with the normal imperfections that time and love could address&#8230;here goes nothing!<\/p>\n<table width=100%>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td class=\"sub\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><b>Bone Fire: 1503 &#8211; A Visit From The Dead (Intro)<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1698-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bone-Fire-1503-A-Visit-From-The-Dead-Intro.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bone-Fire-1503-A-Visit-From-The-Dead-Intro.mp3\">https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bone-Fire-1503-A-Visit-From-The-Dead-Intro.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that King Diamond is the man. Andy LaRocque, well, he&#8217;s the man as well (so you can point that fucking finger up your ass!) Sorry&#8230;Tool lyrics there. Anyways, that duo has created some of the best music ever. In fact, King with both bands may be the greatest musician in history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37,38,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-downloads","category-mp3s","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}