{"id":26719,"date":"2017-10-13T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26719"},"modified":"2017-10-13T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T17:25:03","slug":"john-mclaughlin-interviewed-by-robert-fripp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26719","title":{"rendered":"John McLaughlin Interviewed by Robert Fripp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is real:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephant-talk.com\/wiki\/Interview_with_John_McLaughlin_by_Robert_Fripp_in_Musician\">Fripp<\/a>: That D major chord which changed you from a pianist to a guitarist, what color would that be for you?<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin: What color...? (pause) I think it could be green.<\/p>\n<p>Fripp: Exactly what I would've said...<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin: It's got to be yellow and some blue.<\/p>\n<p>Fripp: A major for me is yellow and A minor inclines toward white, which is my C major. Graham Bond said it was red.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin: C major, red? No, E major, I would say, is red.<\/p>\n<p>Fripp: E major for me is very blue, a kind of royal blue, and when you get to E minor it becomes more of a night blue, with kind of stars...<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin: That's very interesting...<\/p>\n<p>Fripp: G is very greenish, but not quite. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They're all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>D major is a strong and heavy arrow. E minor is a sad rectangle. C major is holding on. A minor is giving in. G major is an open door. A major is the closed door. Diminished chords are covered in spines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is real: Fripp: That D major chord which changed you from a pianist to a guitarist, what color would that be for you? McLaughlin: What color...? (pause) I think it could be green. Fripp: Exactly what I would've said... McLaughlin: It's got to be yellow and some blue. Fripp: A major for me is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26726,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719\/revisions\/26726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}