{"id":12521,"date":"2012-03-09T11:03:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12521"},"modified":"2012-03-12T06:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:57:10","slug":"stumbling-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/stumbling-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumbling In: The Best Artist You Just Happened to Catch in Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HWcbYbKQO7o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Here&#8217;s a topic I picked up from Facebook friend yesterday: Who&#8217;s the best artist (solo or band) you just happened to catch in concert? I&#8217;m talking about an artist you knew nothing about but simply stumbled into seeing as an opener, as a chance encounter on a night out with friends, or whatever?<\/p>\n<p>My answer is <strong>The Embarrassment<\/strong>, a band I&#8217;d never heard of but saw as the first of 3 bands on a <strong>Public Image Ltd<\/strong> show in Chicago in 1981 or 1982. The Embarrassment were these nerdy guys with Oxford shirts, sweaters, and horn-rimmed glasses who put on a short set of incredibly high-energy, guitar-driven, fun (and funny) pop songs. They blew away the next band on the bill, <strong>The Effigies<\/strong>, and gave PiL (with John Lydon and Keith Levene playing half the set offstage, in the wings) a run for their money. In the early days of Nerd Rock, The Embarrassment delivered Nerd Rock at its finest!<\/p>\n<p>A few years later I&#8217;d see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/big-dipper-waleik\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Dipper<\/a><\/strong> for the first time and realize that the familiar-looking high-octane guitarist\/singer from that band was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goffrier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Goffrier<\/a><\/strong>, from The Embarrassment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a topic I picked up from Facebook friend yesterday: Who&#8217;s the best artist (solo or band) you just happened to catch in concert? I&#8217;m talking about an artist you knew nothing about but simply stumbled into seeing as an opener, as a chance encounter on a night out with friends, or whatever? My answer <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/stumbling-in\/' 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":[24,600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521"}],"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=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}