{"id":18015,"date":"2013-03-11T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2013-03-11T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:41:13","slug":"rock-n-roll-holy-grails-glenn-branca-more-or-less-how-i-remember-seeing-him-and-his-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-holy-grails-glenn-branca-more-or-less-how-i-remember-seeing-him-and-his-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n Roll Holy Grails: Glenn Branca, More or Less How I Remember Seeing Him and His Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJWvxM5vtGc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the footage I&#8217;ve long sought from the early &#8217;80s <strong>Glenn Branca<\/strong> show I saw at Drexel University, but this is more or less how I remember seeing him from the front row with my friend <strong>Townsman Sethro<\/strong>, surrounded by a lot of older folks who showed up because Branca was part of some classical music package they&#8217;d bought. That crowd left early on, <a title=\"The Ascension!\" href=\"http:\/\/overlookedgems.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/glenn-branca-ascension.html\" target=\"_blank\">with fingers blocking their ears<\/a>. Now I&#8217;m the old guy who occasionally shows up for the show that wasn&#8217;t really meant for me.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"For Ally Sheedy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/perhaps-ally-sheedy-s-character-would-un\" target=\"_blank\">Previously<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the footage I&#8217;ve long sought from the early &#8217;80s Glenn Branca show I saw at Drexel University, but this is more or less how I remember seeing him from the front row with my friend Townsman Sethro, surrounded by a lot of older folks who showed up because Branca was part of some <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-holy-grails-glenn-branca-more-or-less-how-i-remember-seeing-him-and-his-band\/' 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":[790,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015"}],"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=18015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}