{"id":6654,"date":"2015-07-28T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T06:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2015-07-28T23:10:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T06:10:03","slug":"rip-alan-mirikitani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/rip-alan-mirikitani\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Alan Mirikitani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blues lost another great blues\/rock guitar player when Alan Mirikitani died of a heart attack in the recording studio last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Alan was known to many as BB Chung King, and his band BB Chung King &amp; The Screaming Buddaheads has been a fixture in the LA Area since the 1980s when I can remember first seeing them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen Alan many times as he has played Arcadia Blues Club which is fairly nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Alan was always a gentleman to me and the other blues players in the area. When I was young and new to the area we used to converse via email periodically and he was always helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Alan will surely be missed in my area, and likely in yours as well. So today I pay a tribute to Alan and if you&#8217;ve never heard his music I hope you&#8217;ll take some time to listen.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dbfvFLkA-3o?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N0rzy8cxJCg?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KGeKOxRHM64?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blues lost another great blues\/rock guitar player when Alan Mirikitani died of a heart attack in the recording studio last weekend. Alan was known to many as BB Chung King, and his band BB Chung King &amp; The Screaming Buddaheads has been a fixture in the LA Area since the 1980s when I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}