{"id":1644,"date":"2008-08-21T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-21T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:36:59","slug":"who-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owfeftxDItg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nSimple question: <em>What band leaders have been least equipped to face the world as solo artists?<\/em> In other words, what once-mighty rock visionaries have most struggled with creating meaningful, distinctive music outside their original (or any) <em>band<\/em> setting? You are encouraged to discuss <em>Why<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Artists like <strong>David Lee Roth<\/strong>, who were clearly <em>co<\/em>-visionaries of a distinctive band, may not be up to the level of discussion that I seek. (If the Stones were to dissolve, the same would go for, say, Mick Jagger or Keef as solo artists.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple question: What band leaders have been least equipped to face the world as solo artists? In other words, what once-mighty rock visionaries have most struggled with creating meaningful, distinctive music outside their original (or any) band setting? You are encouraged to discuss Why. Artists like David Lee Roth, who were clearly co-visionaries of a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-are-you\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"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=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}