{"id":10274,"date":"2013-06-26T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10274"},"modified":"2013-06-26T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T19:22:15","slug":"obit-watch-june-26-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10274","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 26, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Myers passed away on Monday, though I did not find out about it until today.<\/p>\n

Myers…<\/p>\n

…was Devo’s third drummer, joining in 1976 before the band released its Brian Eno-produced debut, \u201cQ: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!\u201d and remained in the band until the mid-’80s. He played on all the Akron, Ohio-born, Los Angeles-based Devo’s most mind-bending material, including the deconstructed version of \u201c(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction\u201d that first propelled them onto the national stage, \u201cWhip It\u201d and \u201cGirl U Want.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m trying to find some appropriate links. I’m not sure this one shows Myers or the rest of the band well, but it is from the right era as well as being one of my favorite Devo songs. Plus, does anyone remember “Fridays”?<\/p>\n

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And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like:<\/p>\n

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Also, a shoutout to my homeboys at Popehat:<\/p>\n

Hey! @nytimes<\/a>! Richard Matheson died two days ago. Where’s the obituary? “All the news that’s fit to print” indeed.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Popehat (@Popehat) June 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Myers passed away on Monday, though I did not find out about it until today. Myers… …was Devo’s third drummer, joining in 1976 before the band released its Brian Eno-produced debut, \u201cQ: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!\u201d and remained in the band until the mid-’80s. He played on all the Akron, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-music","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10275,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}