{"id":1463,"date":"2008-06-01T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-01T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T23:22:27","slug":"unmatched-configurations-in-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unmatched-configurations-in-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmatched Configurations in Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xyR-HmJS2qQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nYou wouldn&#8217;t think it would be that difficult reconstruct &#8211; two <em>smokin&#8217;<\/em>, <em>rockin&#8217;<\/em> sisters fronting a solid hard rock band &#8211; but to date the closest the rock world has come to reconstructing the dynamic of <strong>Heart<\/strong> is <strong>The Breeders<\/strong>. Although <strong>Kim<\/strong> and <strong>Kelly Deal<\/strong> sisters were kinda kute, they were no Wilson sisters, and the other two Breeders don&#8217;t round out as hot a lineup as the other chicks did in Heart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bt5MWCwFhCI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNpKjmNaJpQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe fact that the Wilson sisters excelled at kid sister <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> should not be held against them. Theirs was a special, seemingly simple configuration that has gone unmatched. Don&#8217;t give me <strong>The Donnas<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Jett<\/strong>, and any other cartoonish women-led hard rock outfits. <strong>Sleater-Kinney<\/strong> might be the only multiple women-led band (as opposed to, say, <strong>PJ Harvey<\/strong>, a &#8220;band&#8221; led by a sole woman) that&#8217;s had as natural a way with anything approaching hard rock. But they didn&#8217;t have a bassist.<\/p>\n<p>Find me another young, sultry Ann Wilson; a totally femme, Ovation-playing sister; a pair of butch guitarists; a tough rhythm section; and the teenage boys will once more understand.<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse, that&#8217;s my unmatched configuration. <em>What&#8217;s yours?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t think it would be that difficult reconstruct &#8211; two smokin&#8217;, rockin&#8217; sisters fronting a solid hard rock band &#8211; but to date the closest the rock world has come to reconstructing the dynamic of Heart is The Breeders. Although Kim and Kelly Deal sisters were kinda kute, they were no Wilson sisters, and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unmatched-configurations-in-rock\/' 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\/1463"}],"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=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}