{"id":1333,"date":"2008-04-01T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-02T23:04:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T23:04:53","slug":"out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Out With the New, In With the Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/rowlands.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Somebody needs to be the voice rising up <em>against<\/em> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asparagusmedia.tv\/video\/BoscovsMothers.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.asparagusmedia.tv\/video\/BoscovsMothers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>rampant consumerism<\/strong><\/a> that seems to be overtaking rock and roll from all quarters &#8212; even in the hallowed halls, it seems.  I say:  <em>Pshaw!<\/em>  And if you think <em>anything<\/em> is new under the sun, or worth buying and owning, I say:  <em>Double-pshaw!<\/em>  Why, just the other day, a recording &#8212; literally etched in smoke in the year 1860 &#8212; was <strong>digitally deciphered<\/strong> and played for the world&#8217;s ears for the first time.  The ghostly warblings definitively prove that, if nothing else, <strong>The Band<\/strong> were a bunch of olde-fashioned poseur assholes.  <em>This<\/em> is what real old-timey music is meant to sound like!<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oE6_M6BkUM8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>HVB, proudly sponsored by Rowland&#8217;s Macassar Oil and Herpicide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody needs to be the voice rising up against the rampant consumerism that seems to be overtaking rock and roll from all quarters &#8212; even in the hallowed halls, it seems. I say: Pshaw! And if you think anything is new under the sun, or worth buying and owning, I say: Double-pshaw! Why, just the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/1333"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}