{"id":27776,"date":"2025-04-21T21:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27776"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:13:06","slug":"media-music-drag-racer-the-doug-wood-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27776","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA\/MUSiC: Drag Racer, The Doug Wood Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNKJ-sGpMuU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An absolute classic\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/snooker\/36186945\">Watch on BBC iPlayer<\/a>. Or see it on YouTube:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aIqmLYfat_o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time not long back when the  \u2018[w]itless brand managers or evil cultural terrorists\u2019 that have infiltrated the venerable BBC started butchering this sacred music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about that sorry episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2007\/apr\/26\/comment.snooker\">here<\/a>. Fortunately &#8211; or so it seems (watching snooker today, on the iPlayer) &#8211;  \u2018Drag Racer\u2019 been restored to a more natural state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s great hearing from the horses\u2019 mouth, about Doug playing and recording all the parts himself, on an early four-track \u2018domestic\u2019 tape recorder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An absolute classic\u2026 Watch on BBC iPlayer. Or see it on YouTube: There was a time not long back when the \u2018[w]itless brand managers or evil cultural terrorists\u2019 that have infiltrated the venerable BBC started butchering this sacred music. Read more about that sorry episode here. Fortunately &#8211; or so it seems (watching snooker today, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA\/MUSiC: Drag Racer, The Doug Wood Band&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7e0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}