{"id":14899,"date":"2012-08-11T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14899"},"modified":"2012-08-12T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T14:21:30","slug":"greatest-live-band-best-known-for-not-playing-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/greatest-live-band-best-known-for-not-playing-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Live Band Best Known for Not Playing Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <strong>Tom Waits<\/strong> on <em>Letterman<\/em> last night. I know he doesn&#8217;t play live that often. Beside that concert film he did coming out of the Frank&#8217;s Wild Years period, I don&#8217;t recall seeing him play live on a screen since his early hobo piano balladeer days. He was pretty good last night, but I much preferred his sit down on Dave&#8217;s couch. I&#8217;ll take Waits the\u00a0raconteur\u00a0or actor any day over Waits the musician.<\/p>\n<p>You can have your early <strong>Beatles<\/strong> concerts. I love the Beatles above all other bands. I know they made girls wet their pants and were probably the first band best known for not playing live, but I think their brief performance on the rooftop in <em>Let It Be<\/em> so far surpasses any live clips I&#8217;ve seen from their early days that the band is only the second-greatest live band best known for not playing live.<\/p>\n<p>Give me <strong>XTC<\/strong> from their live days over any other audience-fearing band I can think of. It&#8217;s the weekend. I know Andy usually looks like a smacked ass. I know <strong>E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Man or Machine&#8221; criticisms of the band. I&#8217;m down with their music and the band&#8217;s overall Man or Machine conflicts. Their music has a high degree of difficulty without being prog. They can play. Original drummer Terry Chambers IS a machine, and I mean that as a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>Pop the following full XTC concert up on your Google or Apple TV and watch along with me.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WE5olpWJCPs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>(Am I missing a better live artist best known for not playing live?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Tom Waits on Letterman last night. I know he doesn&#8217;t play live that often. Beside that concert film he did coming out of the Frank&#8217;s Wild Years period, I don&#8217;t recall seeing him play live on a screen since his early hobo piano balladeer days. He was pretty good last night, but I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/greatest-live-band-best-known-for-not-playing-live\/' 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":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899"}],"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=14899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}