{"id":13772,"date":"2012-07-03T07:43:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13772"},"modified":"2012-07-03T07:45:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:45:34","slug":"battle-royal-backstage-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royal-backstage-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Backstage Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OABFBUXHJiM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Backstage footage of musicians in their natural habitat, away from the groping public, is often quite telling, even inspiring. Sometimes musicians you&#8217;d never expect to see sharing a stage are caught yukking it up in the wings. Ah, the glorious bonds of music know no bounds! In the above clip, videotaped backstage in Ocean City, Maryland,\u00a0<strong>Dion<\/strong> and <strong>Marty Balin<\/strong><strong> share a moment over a hair that fell into a third man&#8217;s beer.<\/strong> I&#8217;m not sure this tops the legendary footage of <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> and <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> backstage in 1985, discussing the art of recording their music as it was meant to sound, but it comes close.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/91UpnieKYTs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>What are some of your most memorable backstage moments, either captured on video or from your own memory? And while we&#8217;re at it, what is the <em>greatest<\/em> backstage moment in rock?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstage footage of musicians in their natural habitat, away from the groping public, is often quite telling, even inspiring. Sometimes musicians you&#8217;d never expect to see sharing a stage are caught yukking it up in the wings. Ah, the glorious bonds of music know no bounds! In the above clip, videotaped backstage in Ocean City, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royal-backstage-pass\/' 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":[42,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772"}],"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=13772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}