{"id":103,"date":"2006-02-18T19:52:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T01:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2006-02-18T19:52:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T01:52:38","slug":"ohio-players-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/ohio-players-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Players &#8212; Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ohioplayersfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-848\" title=\"Ohio Players -- Fire\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ohioplayersfire.jpg\" alt=\"Ohio Players -- Fire\" width=\"500\" height=\"1250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Ohio Players<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Fire<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1974<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1998 ? &#8211; Pretty sure I got this at Record Mart in Alexandria, VA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m &#8217;bout to choke<br \/>\nFrom the smoke<br \/>\nLemme tighten up my <em>stroke<\/em><br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a four alarm bay-baaaay<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And when you sing the word &#8220;stroke&#8221; in the Ohio Players most awesome song &#8220;Fire&#8221; you have to go for the falsetto like you just sat on a tack. Some of the other songs on this record are sorta spaced out, trippy pop like you would expect on a mid-1970s soul record. Then, they hit you with &#8220;What The Hell&#8221; on side two. That song is one of the most metallic funk-jazz odysseys ever laid down. It&#8217;s like Funkadelic or something.<\/p>\n<p>Signing off from another house hunting trip to Asheville, NC. Total driving time today: over 12 hours. When will it end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Ohio Players Title: Fire Year: 1974 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1998 ? &#8211; Pretty sure I got this at Record Mart in Alexandria, VA. Keeper: Yes I&#8217;m &#8217;bout to choke From the smoke Lemme tighten up my stroke You&#8217;re a four alarm bay-baaaay And when you sing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,478,453],"tags":[497,689,46,869,921,1033],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-o","category-record-collection","tag-497","tag-funk","tag-music","tag-ohio-players","tag-rb","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}