{"id":106326,"date":"2025-12-03T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=106326"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:20:47","slug":"rip-steve-cropper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=106326","title":{"rendered":"RIP Steve Cropper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Steve Cropper. He made more beautiful music with fewer notes than any guitarist I ever heard. <\/p>\n<p>The  the first Booker T and the MGs tune I ever heard was Groovin&#8217;. IIRC their cover came out not that long after the Rascals original in 67. But I liked it better.  Cropper overdubbed the piano. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hear Green Onions until later. (I was 7 when it was first released.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/euWA4j0PPpo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Steve Cropper. He made more beautiful music with fewer notes than any guitarist I ever heard. The the first Booker T and the MGs tune I ever heard was Groovin&#8217;. IIRC their cover came out not that long after the Rascals original in 67. But I liked it better. Cropper overdubbed the piano. I didn&#8217;t hear Green Onions until later. (I was 7 when it was first released.) <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=106326\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":115783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2026-01-20-at-9.19.42\u202fPM.png?fit=1634%2C1104&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-rEW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115784,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106326\/revisions\/115784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}