{"id":1939,"date":"2009-01-15T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T12:44:01","slug":"jamuary-day-7-if-a-jam-is-in-session-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jamuary-day-7-if-a-jam-is-in-session-but\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMuary, Day 7: If a Jam Is in Session but No Musicians Are in the Room, Is it Still a Jam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/jamuary.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"353\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s jam is from <strong>Sonic Youth<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Silver Session (For Jason Knuth)<\/em>, an entire jam supposedly recorded with no musicians actually playing the instruments put to tape. It&#8217;s short, pretty, and  painless. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/SonicYouth_SilverFlower.mp3\" title=\"\">Sonic Youth, &#8220;Silver Flower&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that <strong>Sonic Youth<\/strong> was frustrated by the attempt to record some song. To relieve the tension, the band members turned all their amps up to <strong>11<\/strong> and rested their axes in front of them, for, like, maximum feedback. They recorded the random feedback tones and then edited them down to an album&#8217;s worth of concise, fairly tuneful pieces. I like this album better than anything Sonic Youth has done while actually handling their instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s jam is from Sonic Youth&#8216;s Silver Session (For Jason Knuth), an entire jam supposedly recorded with no musicians actually playing the instruments put to tape. It&#8217;s short, pretty, and painless. Check it out. Sonic Youth, &#8220;Silver Flower&#8221; Legend has it that Sonic Youth was frustrated by the attempt to record some song. To relieve <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jamuary-day-7-if-a-jam-is-in-session-but\/' 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\/1939"}],"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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}