{"id":5452,"date":"2014-06-04T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2014-07-21T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T00:39:30","slug":"5452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=5452","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Who_Came_First1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Who_Came_First1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Who_Came_First\" width=\"330\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Who_Came_First1.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Who_Came_First1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Who_Came_First1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTHING IS EVERYTHING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Who Came First<\/em> was a 1972 release created by Pete Townshend, songwriter and guitarist of the rock group The Who. It included demos from the aborted album <em>Lifehouse<\/em>, some of which appeared on the chart busting <em>Who&#8217;s Next<\/em>. These tracks were recorded at Townshend&#8217;s home studio and payed tribute to his avatar, Meher Baba.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Lane of The Faces was a significant contributor to <em>Who Came First<\/em> and was a collaborator on the 1977 LP titled <em>Rough Mix <\/em>. Lane was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the time and died at age 51, seventeen years ago today. Be sure and check out Lane&#8217;s other albums <em>Anymore for Anymore <\/em>and <em>Slim Chance<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you are happy with nothing you have everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTHING IS EVERYTHING Who Came First was a 1972 release created by Pete Townshend, songwriter and guitarist of the rock group The Who. It included demos from the aborted album Lifehouse, some of which appeared on the chart busting Who&#8217;s Next. These tracks were recorded at Townshend&#8217;s home studio and payed tribute to his avatar, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=5452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}