{"id":1236,"date":"2010-04-01T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2011-08-07T08:18:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:18:03","slug":"strum-sum-up-by-dug-pinnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/strum-sum-up-by-dug-pinnick\/","title":{"rendered":"Strum Sum Up by dUg Pinnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1237\" title=\"DugPinnick_StrumSumUp\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/08\/DugPinnick_StrumSumUp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/08\/DugPinnick_StrumSumUp.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/08\/DugPinnick_StrumSumUp-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>dUg Pinnick\u2019s last solo release Strum Sum Up is a heavy, heartfelt rocking good time! I am as much a fan of Pinnick\u2019s solo material as I am of the Kings X band efforts. In many ways they are stylistically the same, but Strum Sum Up has a crisper heaviness to it. The thing that dUg does so well is that thick funky bass groove that he lays down just underneath the guitars in many songs, but then in songs like \u201cComing Over\u201d that funka funka thumpa thumpa is the vehicle that drives the song. Lyrically my favorite track here was the opener \u201cPerfect World Part 1,\u201d which deals with the fact that we are all living under the same sun, dealing with the same junk, and no one is any different from the next person.\u2026 dUg does not confess Christianity, but thematically the lyrics here could be a very well crafted \u201cfor all have sinned\u201d type song, and it works well. Pick this one up and play at maximum volume! Headphones are recommended \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n[2007 Magna Carta | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnacarta.net\" target=\"_blank\">MagnaCarta.net<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dUg Pinnick\u2019s last solo release Strum Sum Up is a heavy, heartfelt rocking good time! I am as much a fan of Pinnick\u2019s solo material as I am of the Kings X band efforts. In many ways they are stylistically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/strum-sum-up-by-dug-pinnick\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[254,255],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-2010","category-music-review","tag-dug-pinnick","tag-magna-carta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}