{"id":1570,"date":"2008-07-17T21:18:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-17T22:07:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T22:07:14","slug":"grudge-match-aerosmith-vs-van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grudge-match-aerosmith-vs-van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"Grudge Match: Aerosmith vs Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/eddieVSjoe.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"310\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I pit these guys against each other&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure why&#8230;something to do with late-&#8217;70s AOR in Phoenix maybe&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>What gets me is the respect that <strong>Aerosmith<\/strong> gets and the lack of respect that <strong>Van Halen<\/strong> gets. Can I hear an Amen!<\/p>\n<p>We just got <em>Guitar Hero Aeorsmith<\/em> over here, which was worth the price just so I could play <strong>Complete Control<\/strong> by <strong>The Clash<\/strong>. (The first person who can post the appropriateness of this Clash tune for use in this game wins a patented RTH No-Prize.)  <\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, in listening and &#8220;playing&#8221; the <em>Aerosmith<\/em> songs I got to thinking how much they suck. By the time I was finished with the game I realized that by owning <strong>Toys in the Attic<\/strong> (which is pretty great), I had more than enough Aerosmith, with the possible exception of <strong>Dream On<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Van Halen<\/em> on the other hand ripped out 6 great (but flawed for sure) albums from &#8217;78-&#8217;84. These guys kicked it, and evidenced by the videos, if not by their lyrics, had a sense of humor about themselves. Plus they were relatively original in both sound and Look. Aerosmith just comes off as a K-Mart Zeppelin-come-by-Stones schtick, right down to the lips, scarf, and lead guitarist initials.<\/p>\n<p>What say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pit these guys against each other&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure why&#8230;something to do with late-&#8217;70s AOR in Phoenix maybe&#8230; What gets me is the respect that Aerosmith gets and the lack of respect that Van Halen gets. Can I hear an Amen! We just got Guitar Hero Aeorsmith over here, which was worth the price just <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grudge-match-aerosmith-vs-van-halen\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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\/1570"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}