{"id":163,"date":"2006-04-30T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2006-04-30T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T13:55:09","slug":"ohio-players-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/ohio-players-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Players &#8212; Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ohioplayershoney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-846\" title=\"Ohio Players -- Honey\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ohioplayershoney.jpg\" alt=\"Ohio Players -- Honey\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Ohio Players<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Honey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1975<\/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> 1999 ? &#8211; Record Mart in Alexandria, VA?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning from Fayetteville, NC. We&#8217;re spending a couple days with Mary&#8217;s parents after spending a couple with mine. Tomorrow morning we finally head to Asheville where we will spend a night or two with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumenlab.com\/about.php\">Grayson and Kellie<\/a> while we wait for the movers to show up. Time with family: priceless. Roadtripping after shoulder surgery: painful.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Players love their gatefold-pin-up album covers. If you think the cover for &#8220;Honey&#8221; is spicy-hot you should see the inside. I was going to include it here but I&#8217;m Heavy Duty! is a family show. Just picture the woman on the outside cover with honey dripped <em>all over<\/em> her. Enough about the packaging. The big hit, classic even, on this record is of course &#8220;Rollercoaster&#8221;, made popular again a few years ago as a cover by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But my absolute favorite is the riff-heavy, slow-grinding, super-funky &#8220;FOPP.&#8221; This is another classic by any standard and has also had its share of cover versions. Soundgarden did a great version on an early EP of the same name when they were still with Sub Pop. What does &#8220;FOPP&#8221; mean? Anything?<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ohio_Players\">more about The Ohio Players<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Ohio Players Title: Honey Year: 1975 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1999 ? &#8211; Record Mart in Alexandria, VA? Keeper: Yes Good morning from Fayetteville, NC. We&#8217;re spending a couple days with Mary&#8217;s parents after spending a couple with mine. Tomorrow morning we finally head to Asheville where we [&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":[498,689,46,869,921,1033],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-o","category-record-collection","tag-498","tag-funk","tag-music","tag-ohio-players","tag-rb","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}