{"id":90005,"date":"2012-06-30T03:38:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T03:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=90005"},"modified":"2012-06-30T03:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T03:38:53","slug":"john-harrison-inventor-of-tone-tubby-hemp-speakers-for-rock-stars-dies-at-59-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/john-harrison-inventor-of-tone-tubby-hemp-speakers-for-rock-stars-dies-at-59-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harrison, inventor of Tone Tubby hemp speakers for rock stars, dies at 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr. Harrison came up with the idea to substitute hemp \u2014 the industrial fiber from marijuana \u2014 for paper in the vibrating cone in speakers of guitar and bass amplifiers. R.E.M.\u2019s Pete Buck said the \u201chempcone\u201d speakers gave him \u201cthe coolest, most authentic early \u201960s garage band tone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr. Harrison tried them out first on Santana, a longtime customer of his speaker repair shop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSantana was the first guy in the world to play through hemp and he immediately loved it,\u201d Mr. Harrison said in a Marin Independent Journal article last year. \u201cEight years later he\u2019s still using the originals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Harrison came up with the idea to substitute hemp \u2014 the industrial fiber from marijuana \u2014 for paper in the vibrating cone in speakers of guitar and bass amplifiers. R.E.M.\u2019s Pete Buck said the \u201chempcone\u201d speakers gave him \u201cthe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/john-harrison-inventor-of-tone-tubby-hemp-speakers-for-rock-stars-dies-at-59-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}