{"id":888036,"date":"2026-01-26T23:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/having-tommy-bolin-play-on-my-songs-was-a-compliment-but-artistically-it-ruined-it-for-me-it-led-to-a-lot-of-conflict-moxys-earl-johnson-lost-control-of-his-band-as-they\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:16:48","slug":"having-tommy-bolin-play-on-my-songs-was-a-compliment-but-artistically-it-ruined-it-for-me-it-led-to-a-lot-of-conflict-moxys-earl-johnson-lost-control-of-his-band-as-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/having-tommy-bolin-play-on-my-songs-was-a-compliment-but-artistically-it-ruined-it-for-me-it-led-to-a-lot-of-conflict-moxys-earl-johnson-lost-control-of-his-band-as-they\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHaving Tommy Bolin play on my songs was a compliment, but artistically it ruined it for me. It led to a lot of conflict\u201d: Moxy\u2019s Earl Johnson lost control of his band as they tracked their debut album. After decades away, he might have got it back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian hot riffer explains how he was edged out of playing solos on his own songs, how it broke down his partnership with his singer, and why he\u2019s still chasing his Led Zeppelin-style vision&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/guitarists\/earl-johnson-moxy-and-tommy-bolin\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Johnathon Redner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian hot riffer explains how he was edged out of playing solos on his own songs, how it broke down his partnership with his singer, and why he\u2019s still chasing his Led Zeppelin-style vision&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,192,3898],"tags":[5291,13007],"class_list":{"0":"post-888036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-having","8":"category-sports","9":"category-tommy","10":"tag-having","11":"tag-tommy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}