{"id":267,"date":"2011-03-25T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/25\/jokers-jokers-1972\/"},"modified":"2021-09-25T23:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T03:26:57","slug":"jokers-jokers-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/25\/jokers-jokers-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokers &#8211; Jokers (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Jokers.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" ><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Hailing from Tehran, Iran, the JOKERS were arguably Iran\u2019s heaviest underground rock group during the early 70\u2019s. Having visited the UK for a short period, Vaheed, the lead singer and guitarist of JOKERS returned to Iran with new ideas and influences. After hearing groups like MC 5 &amp; Cream, the JOKERS decided to pursue this type of sound, and subsequently recorded a heavy psychedelic blues album in a garage circa 1972 using nothing more then a reel to reel and two microphones. Filled with heavy fuzz, loud wah guitars and screaming vocals, the album sounds unlike any rock artifact unearthed from Iran so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hailing from Tehran, Iran, the JOKERS were arguably Iran\u2019s heaviest underground rock group during the early 70\u2019s. Having visited the UK for a short period, Vaheed, the lead singer and guitarist of JOKERS returned to Iran with new ideas and influences. After hearing groups like MC 5 &amp; Cream, the JOKERS decided to pursue this&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/25\/jokers-jokers-1972\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Jokers &#8211; Jokers (2011)&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,19,476,475,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-189","category-blues-rock","category-iran","category-jokers","category-psychedelic-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}