{"id":194,"date":"2007-01-30T11:28:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T16:28:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-30T22:29:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T22:29:17","slug":"the-road-to-rock-recovery-or-no-katie-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-road-to-rock-recovery-or-no-katie-no\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Rock Recovery, or No Katie, No!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by <strong>Townswoman Carly<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perusing through the <strong>Rock Town Hall Glossary<\/strong>, and coming across the amusing and very apt definition and description for practitioners of <em>Holstering<\/em>, I was reminded of live shows that I&#8217;ve seen, or rather musicians that I&#8217;ve witnessed, on the fantastic <strong>Road to Rock Recovery<\/strong> during a show. <\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Tys5rKyzSc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Instances of <strong>Great Rock Recovery<\/strong> that I&#8217;ve personally witnessed include the stellar <strong>Plimsouls<\/strong> performance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northstarbar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The North Star Bar<\/a> in Philly in 2006, where in great rock n&#8217; roll fashion, during the song &#8220;Million Miles Away&#8221;, <strong>Peter Case<\/strong> strummed his guitar so hard that the strap on his guitar came unfastened and he had to hold it to his thigh throughout the rest of the song until he could get the strap onto his guitar again &#8211; he was rocking that hard &#8211; forget the strap! Play that song! Had this happened in <em><strong>Valley Girl<\/strong><\/em> too before they got the right cut?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnother example was when <strong>Radiohead<\/strong> were touring for <em>The Bends<\/em> and played in Detroit, Michigan. <strong>Jonny Greenwood&#8217;s<\/strong> guitar amp blew out the electricity for the rest of the instruments on stage during one of their songs and everything else but the microphones near the front of the stage went blank, in the middle of all of this, <strong>Thom Yorke<\/strong> looked out into a screaming throng of 1000 fans for a blank moment, back to his drummer waiting for him to launch into his next epiphany &#8211; shrugged his shoulders, made a few <em>very British remarks<\/em> and grabbed his acoustic instead. And with one blue-ish spotlight on him alone sang the wailing electric guitar parts along with the lyrics to the song until Jonny Greenwood and the rest of the crew could figure that electricity thing out. <em>Now that&#8217;s my ticket&#8217;s worth, thank you very much &#8211; forget the extras<\/em>.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MTq4I0hvq8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>During <strong>Daisy Chainsaw&#8217;s<\/strong> wild performance of &#8220;Pink Flower&#8221;, (on tour with Walt Mink for &#8220;Miss Happiness&#8221; in 1992), lead singer <strong>Katie Jane Garside<\/strong> began the song by dropping a few beats on us. The beats that Crazy Katie dropped on us were the unfortunate sounds of Katie <em>konking<\/em> what looked to be a metal tea pot to her head while rocking out on the microphone. The only things that I could certainly ascertain, were that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a) She really had gone off the deep end<\/li>\n<li>b) She was looking more and more like <strong>Sinead O&#8217;Connor<\/strong> with her head shaved like that &#8211; were those crazy dreads in the video just a wig?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Flickering through my mind were thoughts like, &#8220;I hope that poor girl recovers &#8211; she&#8217;s going to put herself in the hospital doing things like that.&#8221; and, &#8220;Wow, great dress!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve been in a band, been in the middle of drumming through the woopety jug-like sounds of the <strong>13th Floor Elevators&#8217;<\/strong> &#8220;You&#8217;re Gonna Miss Me&#8221; and had one of your drumsticks click out of your hand and roll halfway down the pavement and onto a busy main street because you were playing so exuberantly with your back out of an open garage door in a punk rock bar and then made that split second decision: &#8220;Do I run down the pavement to get that stick, or do I continue to play with one hand? a hand and a stick? Both hands and no sticks?!&#8221; And maybe the crowd roared in applause because this was your first show and because you were playing the 13th Floor Elevators and because it was you who had to run down for that stick and not them, thanking the <strong>Rock Gods<\/strong> that it hadn&#8217;t actually rolled into traffic; if only, <em>TO FINISH THAT SONG<\/em>. Okay, so that was me, and now I make bloody sure that I always have more than two sticks within reach, but the Rock Recovery went pretty well at that moment, I thought.<\/p>\n<p><em>Maybe you&#8217;ve witnessed someone else on the Road to Rock Recovery as well? I want to hear about it!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Townswoman Carly. Perusing through the Rock Town Hall Glossary, and coming across the amusing and very apt definition and description for practitioners of Holstering, I was reminded of live shows that I&#8217;ve seen, or rather musicians that I&#8217;ve witnessed, on the fantastic Road to Rock Recovery during a show. Instances of Great Rock <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-road-to-rock-recovery-or-no-katie-no\/' 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\/194"}],"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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}