{"id":13330,"date":"2012-05-03T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2012-05-03T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:37:46","slug":"its-the-singer-and-the-song-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/its-the-singer-and-the-song-right\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Singer AND the Song, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught the following <strong>Daryl Hall<\/strong> performance on <em>Conan<\/em> last night. It was a re-run.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"ep\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/v5cache\/TBS\/cvp\/teamcoco_drupal_embed.swf?context=teamcoco_embed_offsite&amp;videoId=17343\" \/><embed id=\"ep\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/v5cache\/TBS\/cvp\/teamcoco_drupal_embed.swf?context=teamcoco_embed_offsite&amp;videoId=17343\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have what&#8217;s called a &#8220;good ear.&#8221; In band practices, for instance, I&#8217;m often the last to know that someone&#8217;s singing off-key. It&#8217;s probably because of my limited vocal abilities that I treat vocal pitch like horseshoes and hand grenades.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as this performance got underway, however, I suspected that Hall was singing <em>way<\/em> off key. He is, right? Please confirm that this is not just a matter of the song sucking.<\/p>\n<p>Bring back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/title-22\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oates\u2014and his &#8216;stache<\/a>. And the blond beard&#8217;s still not working, Daryl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught the following Daryl Hall performance on Conan last night. It was a re-run. I don&#8217;t have what&#8217;s called a &#8220;good ear.&#8221; In band practices, for instance, I&#8217;m often the last to know that someone&#8217;s singing off-key. It&#8217;s probably because of my limited vocal abilities that I treat vocal pitch like horseshoes and hand <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/its-the-singer-and-the-song-right\/' 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":[581,127,563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330"}],"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=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}