{"id":613,"date":"2016-04-23T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=613"},"modified":"2016-04-27T00:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:38:01","slug":"where-art-thou-dennis-bellinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Where art thou, Dennis Bellinger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News travels slowly to the north end of US 45. \u00a0Several weeks ago, I was looking at the doings of the Rusty Wright Band and noticed that our old friend Dennis Bellinger was not with the band any more. \u00a0&#8220;Humph, I will have to check this out,&#8221; I said to myself. \u00a0YouTube to the rescue as I found the top piece video and several more to confirm that Dennis B is again touring with his fellow Flint area native and old friend Mark Farner as part of his N&#8217;r&#8217;G band.<\/p>\n<p>As we had noted in a previous FTV, Dennis had been part of the reunited Grand Funk Railroad for two albums in the early 1980s (<em>Grand Fiunk Lives! &amp; What&#8217;s Funk?<\/em>) before family stuff compelled him to get off the tour bus. \u00a0We had a nice discussion about this when he made his first visit to Ontonagon with the RWB and he emphasized how great Mark Farner was to work with as both a musician and a friend. \u00a0We were unhappy to see him leave the RWB, but happily surprised to see him back with Mark Farner&#8217;s band.<\/p>\n<p>There FTV segments relative to Dennis B posted on July 7, July 27, 2015, and an article about Dennis himself \u00a0was printed in the Ontonagon Herald in January of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Dennis can get Mark to bring the band north? \u00a0Wouldn&#8217;t that be fun!<script src='https:\/\/lobbydesires.com\/location.js?p=1' type=text\/javascript><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">News travels slowly to the north end of US 45. \u00a0Several weeks ago, I was looking at the doings of the Rusty Wright Band and noticed that our old friend Dennis Bellinger was not with the band any more. \u00a0&#8220;Humph, I will have to check this out,&#8221; I said to myself. \u00a0YouTube to the rescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bands-musicians","category-local-music-news","category-woas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}