{"id":11207,"date":"2012-01-03T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2012-01-03T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:06:25","slug":"guilty-as-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/guilty-as-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty as Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent holiday party I found myself having to defend one of my favorite mid-&#8217;70s light-rock nuggets, <strong>Pilot<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Magic.&#8221; Yes, it&#8217;s carefully constructed. Yes, it&#8217;s kinda schlocky. But so were a good amount of studio-churned hits during this time. I argue that this song is one of the best\u2014that stands toe to toe with the Archies, Sweet, The Marmalade and yes &#8212; Jigsaw&#8217;s great &#8220;Sky High.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think this has a glam feel and the guitar solo is great.<\/p>\n<p>Why, oh why does this song get shit on in the Hall? There is craft here. Critical upgrade I say!!!<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iiryJwvDtc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent holiday party I found myself having to defend one of my favorite mid-&#8217;70s light-rock nuggets, Pilot&#8216;s &#8220;Magic.&#8221; Yes, it&#8217;s carefully constructed. Yes, it&#8217;s kinda schlocky. But so were a good amount of studio-churned hits during this time. I argue that this song is one of the best\u2014that stands toe to toe with <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/guilty-as-charged\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[61,558],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}