{"id":1711,"date":"2008-09-29T10:08:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-12T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:26:12","slug":"to-the-end-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/to-the-end-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"To The End of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WC8g_Nz8n0E?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This is a simple one.  What fantasy show would you make every effort to go see no matter the cost and location?  The only rule is that it has to be feasible.  So a <strong>Beatles<\/strong> reunion is out.  But you can get creative like a <em>Syd Barrett<\/em> tribute featuring <em>Robyn Hitchcock<\/em>, <em>Gilmour<\/em> and <strong>The Soft Machine<\/strong> guys that played on <em><strong>Madcap<\/strong><\/em>.  I&#8217;d consider that but probably wouldn&#8217;t go to the end of the Earth for it.<\/p>\n<p>When the <strong>Velvet Underground<\/strong> reunited in London in &#8217;93, I went so far as to look in to acquiring tickets and airfares and such.  Didn&#8217;t pull the trigger but that was close.  I only had to drive down to Long Beach to see <strong>The Stooges<\/strong> reunion.  I went by myself which I think might be the only time that I&#8217;ve gone to a show by myself.  So I&#8217;ll never know how far I would&#8217;ve gone for that.<\/p>\n<p>The only show that I can think of that I would go to the end of the Earth for is <strong><ins>The Dukes of Stratosphear<\/ins><\/strong>, if and only if, they did it in full character and with a full blown psychedelic extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>What say you?  Is it a reunion show?  A super group?  A reunion show of a super group?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple one. What fantasy show would you make every effort to go see no matter the cost and location? The only rule is that it has to be feasible. So a Beatles reunion is out. But you can get creative like a Syd Barrett tribute featuring Robyn Hitchcock, Gilmour and The Soft <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/to-the-end-of-the-earth\/' 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":[110,97,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711"}],"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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}