{"id":13987,"date":"2012-06-19T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13987"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:41:25","slug":"do-you-like-any-revivalist-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/do-you-like-any-revivalist-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Like Any &#8220;Revivalist&#8221; Rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vyq-dYurBuA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong> Stray Cats<\/strong> in black and white.<\/p>\n<p>I heard <strong>Brian Setzer<\/strong> on the radio this weekend. I started to think that here is a guy that has made a long career of being a musical revivalist.   I loved the Stray Cats for a short time &#8212;  dancing to &#8220;Rock This Town&#8221; &#8217;til I was a sweaty mess.<\/p>\n<p>I also saw the first incarnation of the Brian Setzer Orchestra in the early &#8217;90s at DC&#8217;s 9:30 Club.  At the time, I took my now-wife, we were just looking for something to do &#8212; and had no idea what we were in for that night.  We saw them setting up the Lawrence Welk music stands with a &#8220;BSO&#8221; logo and I thought &#8212; &#8220;we might want to get up close for this.&#8221;  It was a fantastic show &#8212; and one my wife still talks about.<\/p>\n<p>Sure the schtick got old for both bands, but the first time you hear or see it, it can be kind of cool.<\/p>\n<p>So my question is &#8212; what rock revivalists do you enjoy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stray Cats in black and white. I heard Brian Setzer on the radio this weekend. I started to think that here is a guy that has made a long career of being a musical revivalist. I loved the Stray Cats for a short time &#8212; dancing to &#8220;Rock This Town&#8221; &#8217;til I was a sweaty <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/do-you-like-any-revivalist-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987"}],"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\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}