{"id":1718,"date":"2008-10-05T07:04:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T11:04:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-18T12:21:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:21:35","slug":"mach-schau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau\/","title":{"rendered":"Mach Schau!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/69K0bdOAChw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Newcomers to the hallowed Hall may sometimes become a bit disoriented by the frequent, peculiar insider-ism in the RTH vocabulary.  Thankfully, there&#8217;s a handy <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/c17\/\">Glossary<\/a><\/strong> to keep you nodding your head in understanding, if not necessarily agreement.<\/p>\n<p>One term you&#8217;ll see thrown around here is &#8220;mach schau.&#8221;  Fans of the Beatles will remember that German rock and rollers would frequently shout this admonition to &#8220;make show!&#8221; at the boys during their marathon, pill-and-booze fueled performances at the Star Club in Hamburg, to get them to work harder to entertain the audience.  Lord knows the Germans have been wrong about a lot of things over the years, but that was one thing they got right.  They knew that a weedy young band of precocious &#8212; if nascently talented &#8212; upstarts needed a swift kick in the ass to realize they still needed to *work* for their supper.<\/p>\n<p>Around these parts, &#8220;mach schau&#8221; is sometimes used as a noun:  &#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you one thing &#8212; Van Halen has a hell of a lot more &#8216;mach schau&#8221; now that Diamond Dave is back&#8221;;  sometimes an adjective:  &#8220;I like Stereolab just fine &#8212; I just wish they were a little more, you know, &#8216;mach schau.'&#8221;  But the principle is the same as it was at the Star Club in 1962:  Make show!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this late addition to the RTH glossary is really just an excuse to publish an extremely compelling vuh-deo by an artist who does a stellar job illustrating just what the heck we mean by this term.  I used to love this song when it came pouring out of the jukebox at the embassy pool, and, 35 years later, I like it even more, now that I&#8217;ve seen it delivered with a *shitload* of &#8220;mach schau.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcomers to the hallowed Hall may sometimes become a bit disoriented by the frequent, peculiar insider-ism in the RTH vocabulary. Thankfully, there&#8217;s a handy Glossary to keep you nodding your head in understanding, if not necessarily agreement. One term you&#8217;ll see thrown around here is &#8220;mach schau.&#8221; Fans of the Beatles will remember that German <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}