{"id":1816,"date":"2008-11-21T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-17T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:41:22","slug":"holdouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/holdouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Holdouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2a5N03h8Y8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nCan you imagine the 1970s dollars and pounds that must have been waved in the direction of the former members of <strong>The Beatles<\/strong> to reunite? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gibson.com\/en-us\/Lifestyle\/Features\/lennongirlfriendmaypangtel\/\" target=\"_blank\">In a memorable parody of those offers that the tightasses who own the rights to <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> continually wipe clean from YouTube, producer <strong>Lorne Michaels<\/strong>, offered John, Paul, George, and Ringo a whopping $3,000 to come back together.<\/a> Bless the boys for resisting the temptations they must have faced, although that &#8220;Free As a Bird&#8221; thing and news of Paul releasing his avant-garde recording, &#8220;I Could Have Slept With Yoko First,&#8221; have threatened to make that blessed holdout a distant memory.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the members of <strong>ABBA<\/strong> have made much of the fact that they <em>shan&#8217;t<\/em> be working together again for any amount of money or good cause. Good for them! Who really wants to see those once-hot Swedish guys prancing about in silk jumpsuits at 60?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dn-0euBXDFs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nYesterday, there was a discussion in The Back Office about the wads of cash offered to <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong>, long after he&#8217;d drifted off the radar, to produce a single recording of any quality or content. His family turned away all offers. Think about it, Syd fans: in the years before free downloads off the Internet, we&#8217;d probably have dropped $8.00 to hear the man fart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Which band member or entire band do you most wish would drop the holdout routine and reunite already?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What rock band reunion holdouts most impress you for their integrity?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I went to see <strong>The Somewhat Reunited Undertones<\/strong> a couple of years ago. They were lacking singer <strong>Feargal Sharkey<\/strong> (and, for that night, drummer <strong>Billy Doherty<\/strong>). The show was a lot of fun, but Feargal couldn&#8217;t be replaced. In that awesome Undertones documentary from a few years ago, Feargal&#8217;s comments blow me away at parts. I wish I could find the clips, but the pride he displays &#8211; in himself, in his accomplishments both with the band and as a solo artist, in his life today &#8211; blew me away. As a fan of The Undertones and as a guy who&#8217;s played in his own little band for decades, I would have loved to have seen a fully reunited Undertones that night in Hoboken, but what Feargal has to say on the subject &#8211; and how he says it &#8211; gets to the heart of all that&#8217;s right with a commitment to holding out on the lure of the reunion show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine the 1970s dollars and pounds that must have been waved in the direction of the former members of The Beatles to reunite? 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