{"id":4538,"date":"2012-11-19T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:52:55","slug":"im-on-sound-opinions-talking-about-the-5-royales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m on Sound Opinions Talking About The &#8220;5&#8221; Royales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4539\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4539\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,580\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"so\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so-300x248.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4539\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/so.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A week or so ago I made my second appearance on the call-in segment of NPR&#8217;s music show\/podcast <em>Sound Opinions<\/em>. You can find the show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundopinions.org\/shownotes\/2012\/110912\/shownotes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;m at the very, very end of the show&#8211;around 59:30 minutes&#8211;talking about the influence of Winston-Salem&#8217;s own &#8220;5&#8221; Royales on James Brown&#8217;s band The Famous Flames, who were discussed the week previous in the show&#8217;s &#8220;album dissection&#8221; of <em>James Brown: Live at the Apollo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I did a one-page comic about the Royales a while back. If you missed it, here it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/royales_strip2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4540\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/royales_strip2.png\" data-orig-size=\"750,977\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"royales_strip2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/royales_strip2-230x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/royales_strip2.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4540\" title=\"royales_strip2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/royales_strip2-230x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/royales_strip2-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/11\/royales_strip2.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week or so ago I made my second appearance on the call-in segment of NPR&#8217;s music show\/podcast Sound Opinions. You can find the show here. I&#8217;m at the very, very end of the show&#8211;around 59:30 minutes&#8211;talking about the influence of Winston-Salem&#8217;s own &#8220;5&#8221; Royales on James Brown&#8217;s band The Famous Flames, who were discussed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4538\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-1bc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}