{"id":1005,"date":"2007-11-20T00:27:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:27:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-24T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:15:10","slug":"holy-grails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/holy-grails\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Grails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hl8H-rm6kt4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI was very excited to read one my favorite phrases in the world of rock used in The Big Dipper news release: &#8220;Lost Album.&#8221;  Is there anything as exciting as a &#8220;Lost Album?!&#8221;  Better than a reunion album, because it suggests a band in its <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/heyday\" title=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/heyday\">heyday<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I only own, what I consider, two Lost Albums and both exceeded expectations.  The Lost Album then is more rare and magnificent than the Bicentennial.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbJKBgZkiwE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><!--more-->Now I understand that we can quibble about what constitutes an actual Lost Album although I&#8217;m pretty certain that we could all agree       that The Velvet Underground&#8217;s <em><strong>VU<\/strong><\/em> was indeed a lost album and one filled with great many treasures.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lrOiXPq6bHw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We might argue that Brian Wilson&#8217;s <strong><em>Smile<\/em><\/strong> wasn&#8217;t a true &#8220;Lost Album,&#8221; but when you have so few true ones, I count this one and was thrilled with it as well.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7z8NRUFyN0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n(I know some people have issues  with &#8220;Heroes &amp; Villains&#8221; but damned if all I can find is what&#8217;s right about it.)<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m looking for some education here.  Was <em>Smile<\/em> the original Lost Album?  Are there others?  Ones that have been released?  Ones that haven&#8217;t?  Good ones, bad ones&#8230; Please share your knowledge so that we may all benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very excited to read one my favorite phrases in the world of rock used in The Big Dipper news release: &#8220;Lost Album.&#8221; Is there anything as exciting as a &#8220;Lost Album?!&#8221; Better than a reunion album, because it suggests a band in its heyday. I only own, what I consider, two Lost Albums <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/holy-grails\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[120,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}