{"id":135,"date":"2019-03-19T23:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/v2sandbox\/?p=135"},"modified":"2019-03-19T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:40:10","slug":"kerry-samson-1998-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/kerry-samson-1998-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Samson (1998-1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Early works.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For my first solo albums, \u201cPlaying With No Friends\u201d and the follow up \u201cProud To Be A Failed Waiter\u201d, I wanted to come up with a&nbsp; new name, partly in an effort to reinvent myself but also because I\u2019d heard there was someone else releasing music as Michael Jackson, though I\u2019ve no idea what became of that guy.&nbsp; The first name Kerry I chose partly in homage to Slayer\u2019s guitarist Kerry King, then Samson was pretty much a random surname I chose to go with it.&nbsp; Kerry stuck, Samson did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These albums got a decent reception at the time and I sold enough copies to keep my CD burner, printer and scissors busy&nbsp; (for those who\u2019ve grown up with CDBaby and Bandcamp, that\u2019s how we did self releases back then).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nofriends.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Waiter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cockroach Blues (1997)<\/h3>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-135-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cockroach.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cockroach.mp3\">http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cockroach.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Motorway Enui (1998)<\/h3>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-135-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MotorwayEnui.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MotorwayEnui.mp3\">http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MotorwayEnui.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early works. For my first solo albums, \u201cPlaying With No Friends\u201d and the follow up \u201cProud To Be A Failed Waiter\u201d, I wanted to come up with a&nbsp; new name, partly in an effort to reinvent myself but also because I\u2019d heard there was someone else releasing music as Michael Jackson, though I\u2019ve no idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}