{"id":157027,"date":"2022-09-27T03:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T03:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/why-the-failure-of-stray-dog-is-one-of-the-rock-world-s-biggest-conundrums"},"modified":"2022-09-27T03:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T03:25:56","slug":"why-the-failure-of-stray-dog-is-one-of-the-rock-world-s-biggest-conundrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/why-the-failure-of-stray-dog-is-one-of-the-rock-world-s-biggest-conundrums","title":{"rendered":"Why the failure of Stray Dog is one of the rock world&#8217;s biggest conundrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Lake loved them. They had one of the greatest opening tracks on any album, ever. Their guitarist is a hugely successful TV composer. So why did Stray Dog fail?(Image credit: Manticore Records)Back in 1973, I was getting my road safety advice from a rather unusual source. Step forward guitarist\/vocalist William Garrett &#8216;Snuffy&#8217; Walden, whose Highway Code counsel crops up a minute or so into Tramp (How It Is), track one on Stray Dog&#8217;s self-titled debut album. First, a brooding dose of operatic droning lulls you into a false sense of security. And then&#8230; &#8216;Fasten your seat belt!&#8217; Snuffy&#8217;s shrieked warning comes too late. He unleashes his liquid, lascivious guitar &#8211; sounding like a Frankenstein-monster version of ZZ Top&#8217;s Billy Gibbons &#8211; and the sudden impact jerks you forward, and your head smashes through the glass coffee table on the floor in front of you. As you pluck crystal shards from your forehead and examine your neck for whiplash injuries,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Lake loved them. They had one of the greatest opening tracks on any album, ever. Their guitarist is a hugely successful TV composer. So why did Stray Dog fail?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[336,19,12],"class_list":["post-157027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","tag-dogs","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}