{"id":488,"date":"2008-03-19T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2008-03-19T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:38:16","slug":"masters-of-reality-masters-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/masters-of-reality-masters-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Reality &#8212; Masters of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mastersofreality.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-795\" title=\"Masters of Reality -- Masters of Reality\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mastersofreality.jpg\" alt=\"Masters of Reality -- Masters of Reality\" width=\"500\" height=\"995\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Masters of Reality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Masters of Reality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1988<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1988<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was thinking this record was on the Delicious Vinyl label, but this is the original release which came out on Rick Rubin&#8217;s Def American. Turns out Delicious signed Masters of Reality and re-released their eponymous debut a couple years later. It&#8217;s better than I remember. There&#8217;s a weird vintage rock and roll vibe, but that&#8217;s how it sounded 20 years ago when it was new. It reminds me of Cream with a dash of Queens of The Stone Age. And there are in fact real connections to those bands. Ginger Baker would later play with the group, and singer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Goss_%28U.S.%29\">Chris Goss<\/a> has a side band with Queens front man Josh Homme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliciousvinyl.com\/\">Delicious Vinyl<\/a> has one of the coolest logos of all time, but I dig the industrial looking Def American graphic on the liner pictured below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masters_of_Reality\">More about Masters of Reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Masters of Reality Title: Masters of Reality Year: 1988 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1988 Keeper: Yes I was thinking this record was on the Delicious Vinyl label, but this is the original release which came out on Rick Rubin&#8217;s Def American. Turns out Delicious signed Masters of Reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,452,453],"tags":[512,645,724,820,46,932,1033],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-512","tag-desert-rock","tag-hard-rock","tag-master-of-reality","tag-music","tag-rick-rubin","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}