{"id":16598,"date":"2012-11-16T09:06:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16598"},"modified":"2012-11-16T09:12:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:12:52","slug":"if-new-wave-muic-could-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-new-wave-muic-could-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"If New Wave Mu$ic Could Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rT8Td3BapM4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Beside <strong>Linda Rondstadt<\/strong> and <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>, did any established rock artists of the late-&#8217;70s attempt to cash in on New Wave and Punk music? I can&#8217;t think of any others beside <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;response to Punk&#8221; album (a phrase they now embrace but a notion I believe they rejected at the time), <em>Some Girls<\/em>. I&#8217;m sure there are a few other examples beyond <strong>Townman alexmagic<\/strong>&#8216;s long-imagined, never-delivered\u00a0<strong>Bob Seger New Wave album<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, there wasn&#8217;t much cash to cash in on regarding New Wave music of the late-&#8217;70s and early-&#8217;80s. If this music had caught fire, however, like Disco did a few years earlier, can you imagine the New Wave single big bands of the &#8217;70s might have released? Can you imagine <strong>KISS<\/strong>&#8216; cash-in New Wave single? Can you imagine the <strong>Eagles<\/strong>&#8216; cash-in New Wave single? Instead of &#8220;Do Ya Think I&#8217;m Sexy&#8221; <strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong> could have ripped off &#8220;Dancing With Myself.&#8221; And what about Seger&#8217;s long-imagined, as-yet-undelivered New Wave nugget?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beside Linda Rondstadt and Billy Joel, did any established rock artists of the late-&#8217;70s attempt to cash in on New Wave and Punk music? I can&#8217;t think of any others beside The Rolling Stones&#8216; &#8220;response to Punk&#8221; album (a phrase they now embrace but a notion I believe they rejected at the time), Some Girls. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-new-wave-muic-could-talk\/' 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":[264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598"}],"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=16598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}