{"id":14713,"date":"2012-07-31T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14713"},"modified":"2012-07-31T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:06:44","slug":"the-devils-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-devils-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil&#8217;s Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14714\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-devils-advocate\/ttyo-8\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TTYO2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TTYO2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TTYO2-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give me about a shotglass of rockabilly. Now I need a pound of delta blues, and add four\u00a0tablespoons of jet-fueled Los Angeles punk.<\/p>\n<p>Now just a pinch of voodoo, and give me a half pint of 50\u2019s EC horror comics.<\/p>\n<p>Sprinkle liberally with some jazz touches.<\/p>\n<p>Place on the burner<\/p>\n<p>And  bring to a boil<\/p>\n<p>Beat.\u00a0Well.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14715\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-devils-advocate\/1-01-sex-beat\/\">Sex Beat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14716\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-devils-advocate\/04-run-through-the-jungle\/\">Run Through the Jungle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Gun Club<\/strong> took a punk attitude to roots rock, rising from the same scene as X and The Blasters. With a name that sounds like he came right out of Faulkner, leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce began as a music writer enamored with glam and reggae. He also was the President of the Blondie fan club, and with his bleached hair, <em>damn<\/em> if he didn\u2019t look like Debby Harry.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14717\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-devils-advocate\/02-preaching-the-blues\/\">Preaching the Blues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14718\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-devils-advocate\/07-ghost-on-the-highway\/\">Ghost on the Highway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The music pairs well with The Cramps, The Birthday Party\/Bad Seeds, Flat Duo Jets, Gallon Drunk, and any other band description where I might use the words <em>swamp<\/em>, <em>amphetamine<\/em>, <em>devil<\/em>, <em>whiskey<\/em>, or <em>howl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14719\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-devils-advocate\/06-the-master-plan\/\">The Master Plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14720\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-devils-advocate\/12-mother-of-earth\/\">Mother of Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JLP was always something of a fuck-up, living the Sunset Strip life despite a history of bad health. He died at 37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give me about a shotglass of rockabilly. Now I need a pound of delta blues, and add four\u00a0tablespoons of jet-fueled Los Angeles punk. Now just a pinch of voodoo, and give me a half pint of 50\u2019s EC horror comics. Sprinkle liberally with some jazz touches. Place on the burner And bring to a boil <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-devils-advocate\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[692,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713"}],"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\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}