{"id":157,"date":"2007-01-23T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T09:56:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-24T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T23:30:48","slug":"look-letdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/look-letdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Letdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching the All-Star Jam clip of The Kinks<\/strong> performing the exquisite “Autumn Almanac” that Mr. Todd just posted, I’m reminded of perhaps what is – for me<\/strong> – the most disappointing letdown in a favorite rock artist’s Look. How cool is Ray Davies’ Look in 1967? How cool is Dave Davies’ Look, for that matter? Sure, getting old’s a bitch, and I’m not getting any younger myself. Somehow, though, Ray’s long, thinning, dyed hair – possibly with some combover action in play – makes him look too much like the questionable characters he portrayed in both song and stage persona circa early-70s. For me, that’s a letdown. I didn’t grow up thinking I might model my Look after a sleazy hustler. I know it’s petty and wrong to express such a feeling, but I suspect you harbor your own Look Letdown<\/strong> candidate.<\/p>\n

I look forward to your shamefully sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching the All-Star Jam clip of The Kinks performing the exquisite “Autumn Almanac” that Mr. Todd just posted, I’m reminded of perhaps what is – for me – the most disappointing letdown in a favorite rock artist’s Look. How cool is Ray Davies’ Look in 1967? How cool is Dave Davies’ Look, for that matter? […]<\/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":[24,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}