{"id":1785,"date":"2008-11-08T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-16T22:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T22:41:53","slug":"mach-schau-tom-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau-tom-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Mach Schau, Tom Jones!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9tvA3xFbn0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>With this post, we inaugurate a new running series in the Halls of Rock Town, in which we collectively examine a single, stand-out performance, to focus on and assess its &#8220;mach schau&#8221; factor.  To kick things off, I bring you Tom Jones in 1969, doing what he did best:  moovin&#8217;, groovin&#8217; and making women get all twitchy *down there*.  <\/p>\n<p>I once read an insightful comment comparing Elvis to Tom Jones, suggesting that Elvis had all the talent he needed to be a great soul singer, but all he ever wanted was to achieve whitebread success on the stage in Vegas.  Tom Jones is\/was the opposite:  someone who clearly yearned to be a soul shouter, but was blessed with a God-given knack for Vegas-style entertainment excellence.  Sometimes I agree with this assessment.  When I watch things like this, though, I&#8217;m not so sure &#8212; and I&#8217;m not sure I care!<\/p>\n<p>So join me, won&#8217;t you?  Watch Tom Jones doing his thing, then tell me:  did he or did he not MACH SCHAU?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses,<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this post, we inaugurate a new running series in the Halls of Rock Town, in which we collectively examine a single, stand-out performance, to focus on and assess its &#8220;mach schau&#8221; factor. To kick things off, I bring you Tom Jones in 1969, doing what he did best: moovin&#8217;, groovin&#8217; and making women get <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau-tom-jones\/' 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":[342],"tags":[212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}