{"id":13589,"date":"2012-05-23T23:24:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2012-05-24T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:14:45","slug":"i-saw-the-future-and-its-name-was-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-saw-the-future-and-its-name-was-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw the future and its name was\u2026BOB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the thread the other day about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-ones-that-got-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">losing, borrowing, stealing, and doing all sorts of other things to favourite records<\/a>, I found myself humming this as I was stuck at the traffic lights on way to work the other day, as I&#8217;ve been wont to do for the last 23 years, and musing that I&#8217;ve never been able to buy it as I&#8217;ve never even seen a copy.  I even collared their drummer at a gig once and asked if he knew where I might be able to find a copy and he had no idea either.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXLE_0aruec?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Apart from John Peel playing their records at every opportunity, <strong>Bob<\/strong> made about as little impression on the pop world as it was possible to get away with but still keep going for a few years, and they were my favourite band.  I went to see them whenever they played anywhere within about a 30-mile radius (I&#8217;m talking about British roads here), we booked them to play at our local community centre, and I own all of their records except this one.  And they are almost all as good as this one, which made number 31 in <em>John Peel&#8217;s Festive Fifty<\/em> (as nominated and voted for by his listeners)\u2014which was about the closest they ever got to recognition.<\/p>\n<p>One of my greatest fanboy experiences was bumping into them at the bar at the Town and Country Club (as it was called then) at a Julian Cope gig and missing the first 2 songs of the second half of the show through being engrossed in conversation with them.  I practically had to go and lie down when Dean, their drummer, recognised me and stopped for a chat in the Cabaret tent at Glastonbury a couple of years later.<\/p>\n<p>So, in an attempt to feel less alone, I have two questions for the Hall:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is there a record you would like to own that you have just never managed to find?  (I&#8217;m talking about one that you&#8217;d actually play and listen to, not just for being ridiculously valuable.)<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever followed a band whose talent it feels\/felt that no-one but you and about 3 other people have been able to recognise?  (Getting above number 30 in any chart of any description counts as success, particularly if it involves record sales).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the thread the other day about losing, borrowing, stealing, and doing all sorts of other things to favourite records, I found myself humming this as I was stuck at the traffic lights on way to work the other day, as I&#8217;ve been wont to do for the last 23 years, and musing that <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-saw-the-future-and-its-name-was-bob\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589"}],"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\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}