{"id":12217,"date":"2012-02-13T22:41:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2012-02-13T22:41:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T03:41:06","slug":"practice-makes-perfect-the-rolling-stones-rehearse-for-1978-television-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/practice-makes-perfect-the-rolling-stones-rehearse-for-1978-television-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Makes Perfect: The Rolling Stones Rehearse for 1978 Television Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my long-unfulfilled rock performance dreams is to have a gig in which my band sets up and \u201cperforms\u201d in rehearsal mode: that is, facing each other, playing for each other, having the right to stop songs in midstream, adjust part of an arrangement,\u00a0and criticize each other. We would completely block out the crowd and just do our thing, the way our thing is meant to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while I stumble across a video of an artist rehearsing for a gig or studio recording. I LOVE THIS STUFF! As a music lover, I\u2019m as interested in experiencing what goes on behind closed doors as I am listening to or making music myself, also behind closed doors. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the thrill of playing out or seeing a band out in the wild can be tremendous, but there are less opportunities for catching knowing glances, intimate gestures, and tossed-off asides and fills.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUdQTCCselA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Enjoy this goofy, spirited rehearsal by <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> while it lasts on YouTube. I&#8217;m afraid <strong>Steve Luthaker<\/strong> owns the rights to this clip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my long-unfulfilled rock performance dreams is to have a gig in which my band sets up and \u201cperforms\u201d in rehearsal mode: that is, facing each other, playing for each other, having the right to stop songs in midstream, adjust part of an arrangement,\u00a0and criticize each other. We would completely block out the crowd <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/practice-makes-perfect-the-rolling-stones-rehearse-for-1978-television-appearance\/' 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":[589,403,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217"}],"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=12217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}