{"id":1339,"date":"2008-04-04T00:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T04:57:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-04T00:59:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T00:59:28","slug":"scandal-groundbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/scandal-groundbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal: Groundbreaking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qzl_bUasVIo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<center><em>Version 1<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Still no dice on finding that Philadelphia local commercial for Frank&#8217;s Soda featuring a then-unknown <strong>Patty Smyth and Scandal<\/strong>, but I did uncover two alternate versions of of what&#8217;s supposed to be a <strong>video demo<\/strong> that got the band signed to its first label deal. As if that old Frank&#8217;s ad wasn&#8217;t enough! Note one of the guitarists, who would go on to set <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=rock_s_longest_unbroken_streak_of_incons&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=rock_s_longest_unbroken_streak_of_incons&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">rock longest (and still running) unbroken streak of inconsequential mediocrity<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DIdBDhgNXGY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<center><em>Version 2<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Until seeing these videos, it never occurred to me that a video demo could be part of the process for getting signed. I&#8217;m cynical enough to believe that major-label bands since the late &#8217;80s must be taking lessons in lip-synching, and I don&#8217;t even put it beyond the music video industry to call in <strong>stand-in, or &#8220;stunt,&#8221; musicians<\/strong> to &#8220;rock out&#8221; or whatever in a more animated way than an uptight band member. But a video demo? Was this practice in place much earlier than the time of these Scandal video demos? Can it be that Scandal was actually &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221; in some perverse way?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, which version do you think sealed the deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 1 Still no dice on finding that Philadelphia local commercial for Frank&#8217;s Soda featuring a then-unknown Patty Smyth and Scandal, but I did uncover two alternate versions of of what&#8217;s supposed to be a video demo that got the band signed to its first label deal. As if that old Frank&#8217;s ad wasn&#8217;t enough! <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/scandal-groundbreaking\/' 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\/1339"}],"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=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}