{"id":83,"date":"2026-05-07T18:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/?p=83"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:56:35","slug":"monkee-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/2026\/05\/07\/monkee-the-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkee &amp; the Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monkee and the Hammer by Lobster Optimus Ltd\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2251576169&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes:<br>John came to the studio with this song idea. It took some time to get the guitar parts right. I wrote the music for the chorus. This was the first time that I doubled the guitar track using this method. I recorded it once, then changed the sound slightly and recorded it again. Cool sound. The verse parts during the vocals don&#8217;t sound as smooth as I had imagined but it is unique and this is experimental music.<br>if you are wondering what this song is really about, ask John.<br>This was one of the last songs recorded for our first album.<br>Jeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics by John Lister<br>You hit the monkee with the hammer, That\u2019s what they said that you should do<br>But you said you couldn\u2019t do it, They\u2019re lining up to hammer you<br>It seems we must increase your dosage, before you neighbors seem to find<br>You\u2019re mailing letters without postage, and slowly loosing all your mind<br>Chorus<br>Monkee don\u2019t want to die<br>Monkee don\u2019t want no pain<br>Don\u2019t hit the monkee with the hammer<br>There\u2019s nothing really you can gain<br>You were feeling kinda dizzy, a new prescription kicking in<br>You forgot about the monkee,when someone kicked you in the shin<br>I saw you picking up the hammer, you looked at me I saw you wink<br>You hit the monkee with the hammer,and you did not even blink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:John came to the studio with this song idea. It took some time to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}