{"id":24920,"date":"2023-03-08T05:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24920"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:27:32","slug":"interview-roundup-the-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/interview-roundup-the-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: The Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16219\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/turtles_battle_back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/turtles_battle_back.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/turtles_battle_back-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/turtles_battle_back-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Everybody knows the Turtles, and most of us love \u2018em. Led by co-vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, they made some of the best pop music of the \u201860s: folk rock, psychedelic, baroque pop and more. You know the hits, but did you know that the Turtles were one of the few L.A. groups that didn\u2019t use the fabled Wrecking Crew on their sessions? They played their own instruments, only using session musicians for the fiddly extra bits. And post-Turtles, as Flo and Eddie, Howie and Mark did great things with Zappa\u2019s Mothers and then on an underrated series of albums.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve interviewed them a few times\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/features\/howard_kaylan_my_dinner_with_jimi.shtml\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard Kaylan<\/a> (2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4908\">Howard Kaylan<\/a> (2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6447\">Mark Volman<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/06\/guide-for-the-turtles-fan-an-album-by-album-discussion-with-mark-volman-part-1-of-3\/\">Mark Volman<\/a> (2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I\u2019ve written about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/they-showed-us-the-turtles-present-the-battle-of-the-bands-at-40\/\">great concept album<\/a> (more on that soon, by the way)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/album-review-the-turtles-happy-together-180g-vinyl\/\">Their <i>Happy Together<\/i> LP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/album-review-the-turtles-it-aint-me-babe-180g-vinyl\/\">Their <i>It Ain\u2019t Me, Babe<\/i> LP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows the Turtles, and most of us love \u2018em. Led by co-vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, they made some of the best pop music of the \u201860s: folk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[840,1408,5096,2281],"class_list":["post-24920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-flo-and-eddie","tag-mark-volman","tag-oward-kaylan","tag-turtles","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24921,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions\/24921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}