{"id":635,"date":"2009-03-25T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2009-03-25T09:26:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T09:26:23","slug":"hey-jerrie-by-allee-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Hey Jerrie (By Allee Willis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Triiibes exploded, when 2,000 new members came knocking on the door, it&#8217;s been impossible to keep up or welcome all the new faces, who cover an incredibly broad range of people &amp; talents. But there&#8217;s one that stood out from the crowd for me <a title=\"Allee Willis website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allee Willis<\/a> (&amp; <a title=\"Allee Willis Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allee_Willis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>). You may not know the name, but you certainly know her songs, of which she has sold over 50,000,000 recordings!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few:<br \/>\nBoogie Wonderland &amp; September (Earth Wind &amp; Fire)<br \/>\nNeutron Dance (Pointer Sisters)<br \/>\nSoundtrack: Beverly Hills Cop (Grammy Winner)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll Be There: Theme tune of Friends<\/p>\n<p>Check out her website &amp; the Wiki link for a lot more, you&#8217;ll be impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, regardless of all the back history, which as I said is impressive, the reason Allee stood out for me, was because of the video below, in Allee&#8217;s own words <i>&#8220;Jerrie, the 91 yr. old going on 30, is recovering from hip surgery so snare and hi hat, hands only drumming, is all that&#8217;s possible.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As the lyrics of &#8220;Old Folks Boogie&#8221; by Little Feat go, &#8220;You know you&#8217;re over the hill, when your mind makes a promise, that your body can&#8217;t fulfill&#8221;: Jerrie is living proof that you gotta to use it or lose it, she&#8217;s an inspiration to us all, amazing stuff!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mYZkFOZoP-o] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Triiibes exploded, when 2,000 new members came knocking on the door, it&#8217;s been impossible to keep up or welcome all the new faces, who cover an incredibly broad range of people &amp; talents. But there&#8217;s one that stood out from the crowd for me Allee Willis (&amp; Wikipedia). You may not know the name, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[184,8,6,31],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","tag-allee-willis","tag-inspiration","tag-triiibes","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}