{"id":1115,"date":"2008-01-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-06T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T21:06:33","slug":"assumptions-from-those-outside-the-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/assumptions-from-those-outside-the-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"Assumptions From Those Outside the Halls of Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LoYyvcDIpdc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI frequently run into people outside the confines of Rock Town Hall who know of us, have heard something about what we do, and want to talk to me about what they imagine takes place here. It&#8217;s kind of funny. It&#8217;s not like any one of these folks can&#8217;t log onto our site and see for themselves, but I won&#8217;t complain about any degree of interest people might have.<\/p>\n<p>It is funny what people sometimes assume goes on here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You must be talking about <strong>Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings<\/strong>, huh?&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I bet you guys are all over <strong>Dr. Dog<\/strong>&#8216;s latest!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Clapton autobiography must be getting a lot of play.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, the answer to these and other questions is &#8220;No.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ite_aYNLZus?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What makes one artist fodder for Rock Town Hall discussion and another not? Why don&#8217;t we talk about Dr. Dog? They, in particular, seem so up our alley, even if it means they take a licking from some of our usual bullies. If nothing else, doesn&#8217;t the <strong>Patti Boyd<\/strong> stuff in Clapton&#8217;s autobiography at least tempt you to crack that bad boy open? Of course, you&#8217;re aware that Patti Boyd was married to George Harrison, who it goes without saying was in <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>. You see what I&#8217;m saying? <\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s holding out on topics that don&#8217;t get kicked around often enough, if at all? Who&#8217;s holding out on fanning the flames of an in-depth discussion of interesting bands like <strong>Queen<\/strong> or <strong>Radiohead<\/strong> or <strong>Sparks<\/strong> or <strong>The Chills<\/strong> or <strong>The National<\/strong>. <em>The Fuckin&#8217; National, mannnn!<\/em> I&#8217;ve been seeing this band&#8217;s name dropped on all the blogs the regular kids browse. Who&#8217;s holding The National?<\/p>\n<p>You see what I&#8217;m saying? The year is young. Some of us are pretty old. What I hope we&#8217;re not is unwilling to check out <strong>and comment on<\/strong> bands outside our comfort zone, not quite propped up on our dunk tank. Keep your ears open, Townspeople, and your fingers free to sound off.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to expanding my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I frequently run into people outside the confines of Rock Town Hall who know of us, have heard something about what we do, and want to talk to me about what they imagine takes place here. It&#8217;s kind of funny. It&#8217;s not like any one of these folks can&#8217;t log onto our site and see <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/assumptions-from-those-outside-the-halls\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}