{"id":1135,"date":"2008-01-13T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-13T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T10:58:08","slug":"blondie-is-a-band-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blondie-is-a-band-no-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Blondie Is a Group&#8230;No, Really!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/blondiegroupsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that my <strong>Tin Machine<\/strong> video featuring staged stage diving is <strong>no longer available<\/strong> on YouTube. Part of me is sad, while another part of me is proud of having shamed the owner of said video into taking it down. However, I sense you&#8217;re disappointed. To make up for the teaser of a long-forgotten Tin Machine video, I&#8217;m offering you three momentous looks back at the band &#8211; honest &#8211; Tin Machine. Enjoy, and feel free to share your memories of bands involving already-famous solo artists that really were a group. <em>Really!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First up, an interview with the group &#8211; the whole group &#8211; on <strong>Arsenio<\/strong>.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ooimVwKx1MY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Next, the countdown to the group&#8217;s first televised performance!<\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lKrdYIABFuo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>You thought you&#8217;d get it all in one clip? The countdown continues!<\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/>\nWhere were you when the <strong>big moment<\/strong> finally arrived?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g3jpnzERVuo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve gotten this far you&#8217;ve earned the right to post something about how the headless-guitar-playing guy was &#8220;actually quite good,&#8221; or perhaps you&#8217;d like to fill us in on something obvious regarding the Sales brothers having played on some of Iggy&#8217;s best-known Bowie productions. Even dim memories of watching <strong>The Soupy Sales<\/strong> show are welcome! <\/p>\n<p>I know this isn&#8217;t the slam dancing post you&#8217;d been contemplating, but it&#8217;s the best I can do on short notice.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blondie-is-a-band-no-really\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blondie-is-a-band-no-really\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blondie-is-a-band-no-really\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned that my Tin Machine video featuring staged stage diving is no longer available on YouTube. Part of me is sad, while another part of me is proud of having shamed the owner of said video into taking it down. However, I sense you&#8217;re disappointed. To make up for the teaser of a long-forgotten <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blondie-is-a-band-no-really\/' 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\/1135"}],"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=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}