{"id":12013,"date":"2012-02-16T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12013"},"modified":"2012-02-16T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:28:55","slug":"all-star-jamthis-and-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/all-star-jamthis-and-that\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Jam: This and That"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7DGapLpz-hg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>A few odds and sods that have been rattling around in my brain that I thought I&#8217;d dump on you&#8230; Feel free to return the favor!<\/p>\n<p>Friend of the Hall <strong>Ben Vaughn<\/strong> (original late-&#8217;70s demo version of the song performed above <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/my-first-band-rock-town-hall-s-talent-less-search\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!), featuring my close personal friend and longtime musical collaborator\u00a0<strong>Townsman Sethro<\/strong> on drums, is featured <a href=\"http:\/\/video.whyy.org\/video\/2196475453\/\" target=\"_blank\">tonight at 10:00 pm on Philadelphia&#8217;s PBS station WHYY<\/a> (and possibly PBS stations elsewhere). The performance was from a fun show in a South Jersey park late summer or early in the fall of 2011. Perhaps you&#8217;ll see me and my family sitting in the audience, off to the right side (from the audience&#8217;s perspective) of the stage. You may also see a guy who looks like me with shorter hair. That would be my brother.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtfpod.com\/podcast\/episodes\/episode_253_-_nick_lowe\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marc Maron<\/strong> interviewed <strong>Nick Lowe<\/strong> on his <em>WTF<\/em> podcast<\/a>. I&#8217;m a real late-comer to this show, and despite having some problems with Maron&#8217;s &#8220;cool-guy&#8221; penchant for dropping F-bombs, his too-familiar-for-my-comfort self-absorption, and in this interview with a musician, obvious gaping holes in his musical knowledge, the interview really pays off if the music nerd in you can get by Maron&#8217;s Larry King\u2013like lack of preparation. Lowe shares a lot about his early days.<\/p>\n<p>A week or two ago I caught a clip of <strong>Christina Aguilera<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aviEAI_NgYc\" target=\"_blank\">hamming it up<\/a> at <strong>Etta James<\/strong>&#8216; funeral. That&#8217;s one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iDEmydS5pn4\/TySDjS39IcI\/AAAAAAAANTM\/oT94yb0pAIc\/s1600\/christina-aguilera-etta-james-funeral-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">low-hanging cross<\/a>!\u00a0There&#8217;s got to be an amazing <strong>Ham-Jam<\/strong> out there featuring Aguilera that blows away her role in the star-studded quartet version of that old LaBelle song some time ago.<\/p>\n<p>This morning on my local Oldies radio station the DJ and news person made a <strong>Flavor Fav<\/strong> reference in their crossover. It made me feel 100 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few odds and sods that have been rattling around in my brain that I thought I&#8217;d dump on you&#8230; Feel free to return the favor! Friend of the Hall Ben Vaughn (original late-&#8217;70s demo version of the song performed above here!), featuring my close personal friend and longtime musical collaborator\u00a0Townsman Sethro on drums, is <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/all-star-jamthis-and-that\/' 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\/12013"}],"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=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}