{"id":610,"date":"2010-03-29T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2010-03-29T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:59:28","slug":"song-of-the-day-kow-kow-calqulator-by-steve-miller-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Kow Kow Calqulator” by Steve Miller Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

This song<\/a> came up in conversation while I was getting a ride home from my friend Uncle Furry.\u00a0 I asked him if he had ever heard of Kow Kow Calqulator, to which he responded “no”.\u00a0 That, I’m guessing, is what most people would have said.<\/p>\n

But onward I pressed.\u00a0 “Did you know,” I said, “That Kow Kow Calqulator was a very smooth operator?\u00a0 And that he had himself a pet alligator?\u00a0 And that he kept it in a chrome elevator?”<\/p>\n

Again, Uncle Furry responded “No”.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not the type to just go making shit up.\u00a0 Actually, I am.\u00a0 When I said I wasn’t, I was making that up.<\/p>\n

So to prove that I wasn’t making this up… about Mr. Calqulator… Here is today’s “Song of the Day”.<\/p>\n

Zoy!<\/p>\n

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\nI bought this album in 1993.\u00a0 I have it on cassette, and I pretty much wore it right out.\u00a0 When I first started listening to “Classic Rock”, I heard plenty of Steve Miller songs, but they were mainly from the late 70s.<\/p>\n

This album collects all his awesome stuff from the late 60s to early 70s, which is MUCH better.\u00a0 Not so much chart success, but better tunage.<\/p>\n

I fucking love the sound of this album, and I even have a reconstructed version of it made from tracks compiled from all his CDs which I bought.\u00a0 These are great tunes and the production on them is warm and natural.\u00a0 And lots of them have piano great Nicky Hopkins on them.\u00a0 He wasn’t a band member, but he played on lots of late 60s and 70s rock albums.\u00a0 The Stones used him a lot.<\/p>\n

He’s a Scientologist though.\u00a0 Weird.\u00a0 Poor bastard.\u00a0 Actually, being a Scientologist he probably is literally poor after being conned out of all his money.<\/p>\n

But enough about weirdo space cults that destroy lives.\u00a0 Back to the music.<\/p>\n

Actually, I’ve pretty much run out of things to say.\u00a0\u00a0 So I’ll leave you all with a word in parting.<\/p>\n

Iridescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This song came up in conversation while I was getting a ride home from my friend Uncle Furry.\u00a0 I asked him if he had ever heard of Kow Kow Calqulator, to which he responded “no”.\u00a0 That, I’m guessing, is what most people would have said. But onward I pressed.\u00a0 “Did you know,” I said, “That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[69,101,161],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-60s","tag-70s","tag-steve-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}