{"id":174,"date":"2007-01-29T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-29T23:27:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T23:27:33","slug":"rug-harmonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rug-harmonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rug Harmonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Contributed by Townsman Rick Massimo<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a0P_cviczko?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><strong>Rug harmonies<\/strong> are usually wordless, usually complex, and usually thickly overdubbed to produce more vocal parts than there are band members, but always, they&#8217;re background vocals that exist for their own sake rather than the emotional illumination of a lyrics or cuing the listener to a visceral sing-along chant.<\/p>\n<p>Prime classic examples come from <strong>Crosby, Stills, Nash &amp; Young<\/strong>, with <strong>The Byrds<\/strong> close behind. A more recent, particularly awful example would be <strong>REM<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Orange Crush,&#8221; which lacks even the selling point of complexity and consists of a coupla guys moaning dolefully in the service of &#8220;we need some other part here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Townsman Rick Massimo. Rug harmonies are usually wordless, usually complex, and usually thickly overdubbed to produce more vocal parts than there are band members, but always, they&#8217;re background vocals that exist for their own sake rather than the emotional illumination of a lyrics or cuing the listener to a visceral sing-along chant. Prime <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rug-harmonies\/' 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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}