{"id":15069,"date":"2012-08-17T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T03:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15069"},"modified":"2012-08-17T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T03:06:43","slug":"the-most-satisfying-byrds-performance-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-satisfying-byrds-performance-ive-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Satisfying Byrds Performance I&#8217;ve Ever Seen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15070\" title=\"McGuinn egg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McGuinn-egg-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McGuinn-egg-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McGuinn-egg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/McGuinn-egg.png 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You know how a certain admittedly somewhat talented artist can grate on your nerves for reasons too deep to get into even here in the Halls of Rock, the safest haven for rock &#8216;n roll hang-ups on the Web? Think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greatest-live-band-best-known-for-not-playing-live\/#comment-76175\" target=\"_blank\">the anguish that the perceived arrogance of XTC&#8217;s <strong>Andy Partridge<\/strong> causes our friend <strong>E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong><\/a>. Clearly it&#8217;s personal. We&#8217;re not sure we ever want to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n<p>The artist who brings out the worst in me for reasons I&#8217;m not ready to face is The Byrds&#8217; <strong>Roger McGuinn<\/strong>. For that reason I find the following video the most satisfying Byrds performance I&#8217;ve ever seen. Egg on face. Enjoy&#8230;<em>after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EMhHdm-Gda4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how a certain admittedly somewhat talented artist can grate on your nerves for reasons too deep to get into even here in the Halls of Rock, the safest haven for rock &#8216;n roll hang-ups on the Web? Think about the anguish that the perceived arrogance of XTC&#8217;s Andy Partridge causes our friend E. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-satisfying-byrds-performance-ive-ever-seen\/' 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":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069"}],"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=15069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}