{"id":22225,"date":"2019-06-24T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=22225"},"modified":"2019-06-24T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:22:15","slug":"the-black-strat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2019\/06\/24\/the-black-strat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Strat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS<br \/>\nWe see the leaf leaves the tree<br \/>\nI mean extreme weather spills blood<br \/>\nAbout the drought&#8230;<br \/>\nThen&#8230;<br \/>\nAnother flood<br \/>\nAnd, yet, so far&#8230;<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t find it bizarre?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to avoid Mr. Floyd<br \/>\nSold his guitar&#8230;<br \/>\nFor charity&#8230;<br \/>\nFor clarity<br \/>\nHeartfelt<br \/>\nMeant for the environment<br \/>\nAnd, yet, so far&#8230;<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t find it bizarre?<\/p>\n<p>The dog sled running out of ice bed<br \/>\nFan the flames of the wildfire<br \/>\nDow we have a higher desire?<br \/>\nAnd, yet, so far&#8230;<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t find it bizarre?<\/p>\n<p>Not less surprising<br \/>\nThe sea level&#8217;s rising<br \/>\nYou know &#8220;tornado&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230; hurricane&#8217;s insane<br \/>\nWith pollution so thick<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s making you sick<br \/>\nEnter your head: &#8220;We&#8217;re almost dead!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd, yet, so far&#8230;<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t find it bizarre?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danielle.membrane.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Premortem\/DR0000_1234-The-Black-Strat.mp3\">The Black Strat.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/hyper-terrestrial\/Beyond-Babble-On\/DR0000_1235-The-Black-Strat-Instrumental.mp3\"> The Black Strat Instrumental.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\n&#8220;The Black Strat&#8221; is the name of David Gilmour&#8217;s black Fender Stratocaster guitar that was used to record <em>The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall<\/em>. David auctioned off 120 guitars and gave the proceeds to the climate change charity ClientEarth. The Black Strat sold for a record $3.975,000 making it the world&#8217;s most expensive guitar. David&#8217;s auction raised over $21.5 million dollars.<br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Style: ExperiMental Rock \/ Extemporaneous<br \/>\nChords: Em Am \/ C B7 Em<br \/>\nRecording: original take \/ live digital 9-track stereo<br \/>\nInstrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums<\/p>\n<p>From the album <a href=\"http:\/\/danielle.membrane.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Premortem\/\"><strong><em>Premortem<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Written at the corners of Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Gay-Church\/\"><strong><em>Gay Church<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS We see the leaf leaves the tree I mean extreme weather spills blood About the drought&#8230; Then&#8230; Another flood And, yet, so far&#8230; You don&#8217;t find it bizarre? It&#8217;s hard to avoid Mr. Floyd Sold his guitar&#8230; For charity&#8230; For clarity Heartfelt Meant for the environment And, yet, so far&#8230; You don&#8217;t find it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,9,3454,14,16],"tags":[89,272,312,421,487,530,539,556,613,3784,1281,720,761,781,819],"class_list":["post-22225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-bazaar","category-chords","category-daniel","category-gay-church","category-lyrics","category-mother-natures-sons","tag-audio","tag-extemporaneous","tag-free","tag-improv","tag-live","tag-modern","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-original","tag-premortem","tag-progressive-rock","tag-rock","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-songs","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22227,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22225\/revisions\/22227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}