{"id":17380,"date":"2013-02-05T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17380"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:33:28","slug":"troggs-singer-reg-presley-to-take-wild-thing-to-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/troggs-singer-reg-presley-to-take-wild-thing-to-his-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Troggs Singer Reg Presley to Take &#8220;Wild Thing&#8221; to His Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z9DVJE_bhVU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Reg Presley<\/strong>, singer for The Troggs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-21336277\" title=\"Dead at 71\" target=\"_blank\">has died at 71<\/a>. The band had a handful of excellent garage-rock classics, but they will forever be known for their version of &#8220;Wild Thing,&#8221; a song so simple and direct that just about any band has covered it at one time or another. However, no one has come close to matching The Troggs&#8217; hit version, not even\u00a0<strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>, who felt compelled to light his guitar on fire to try in effort to keep pace with Presley and his mates&#8217; incendiary performance. If a singer ever <em>owned<\/em> a song it was Reg Presley owning &#8220;Wild Thing.&#8221; Not even Brian Jones-era <strong>Mick Jagger<\/strong> could have out-snarled and out-leered his way through that song.<\/p>\n<p>There would be no Stooges&#8217; &#8220;No Fun&#8221; without Presley and his mates&#8217; take on &#8220;Wild Thing.&#8221; What kind of world would we be living in without &#8220;No Fun&#8221;? I shudder the thought.\u00a0There&#8217;s only one thing left to say&#8230;<em>after the jump!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"> <!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object width=\"400\" height=\"602\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"602\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reg Presley, singer for The Troggs, has died at 71. The band had a handful of excellent garage-rock classics, but they will forever be known for their version of &#8220;Wild Thing,&#8221; a song so simple and direct that just about any band has covered it at one time or another. However, no one has come <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/troggs-singer-reg-presley-to-take-wild-thing-to-his-grave\/' 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":[44,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380"}],"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=17380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}