{"id":10199,"date":"2011-11-12T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T05:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2011-11-12T01:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T06:48:12","slug":"the-decline-and-fall-of-a-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-decline-and-fall-of-a-british-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline and Fall of a British Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/25HnSTSl2rk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>What is it with my obsession with watching footage of <strong>The Kinks<\/strong> sink to new lows in self-parody and loss of dignity? Most of the time, I&#8217;d much rather watch stuff like this than something from the band&#8217;s halcyon era. What does this say about me? (I should note for those who are new-ish to RTH that The Kinks are one of my  favorite bands and part of my Holy Trinity of Rock. This isn&#8217;t a case  of schadenfreude.)<\/p>\n<p>And does this footage merely show the band trying to stay current during a low point for mainstream rock, in general, or is there something else going on here?<\/p>\n<p>Also, help me guitar nerds: What is the weird Strat-like Gibson (I think) Ray plays in this clip?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a happier clip, giving a little glimpse of the band&#8217;s interpersonal communications as well as their innate musical talent. Sorry about the Ovation acoustics.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v8gDy4Sm19c?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with my obsession with watching footage of The Kinks sink to new lows in self-parody and loss of dignity? Most of the time, I&#8217;d much rather watch stuff like this than something from the band&#8217;s halcyon era. What does this say about me? (I should note for those who are new-ish to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-decline-and-fall-of-a-british-empire\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}