{"id":1829,"date":"2008-11-26T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-01T13:08:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T13:08:43","slug":"gergs-don-t-bother-cueing-up-those-spook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/gergs-don-t-bother-cueing-up-those-spook\/","title":{"rendered":"Gergs, Don&#8217;t Bother Cueing Up Those Spooky Tooth Albums!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gergs, don&#8217;t bother cueing up those <strong>Spooky Tooth<\/strong> records in your basement. I thought we were forgetting some worthwhile song by them, but a brief YouTube search turned up extremely poor results.<\/p>\n<p>First, they do the almost unthinkable: they fail to impress, even on an unintentionally humorous level, on a 1969 <strong>Beat Club<\/strong> appearance. How many excellent Beat Club videos have we seen through the years, and how often does a band fail to impress &#8211; in some way &#8211; in those well-shot B&amp;W clips?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGxRstWAZBc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the following monstrosity. I doubt they are responsible for the video, but this is as ponderous a cover as you&#8217;re likely to hear this side of <strong>Vanilla Fudge<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4F0bpvEVks?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think you&#8217;d be better off finally spinning those <strong>Mandrill<\/strong> albums you&#8217;ve been sitting on for years.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ju8WoTeVVk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gergs, don&#8217;t bother cueing up those Spooky Tooth records in your basement. I thought we were forgetting some worthwhile song by them, but a brief YouTube search turned up extremely poor results. First, they do the almost unthinkable: they fail to impress, even on an unintentionally humorous level, on a 1969 Beat Club appearance. How <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/gergs-don-t-bother-cueing-up-those-spook\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829"}],"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=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}