{"id":1963,"date":"2009-01-25T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-25T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T11:16:25","slug":"mike-patton-orockle-or-asshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mike-patton-orockle-or-asshole\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Patton: Orockle or Asshole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, professional necessity took me in an odd direction, and I found myself searching YouTube for recent material from former <strong>Faith No More<\/strong> vocalist <strong>Mike Patton<\/strong>.  In amongst the noisy spoken-word pieces, hardcore-meets-dub club performances and other fringe-y ephemera, I found this:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKDvJTxZDbA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Does anybody remember <strong>Wolfmother<\/strong>?  I think we briefly argued about them on RTH Chess, with some finding them clever miners of ancient rock gold, and others dismissing them as worthless and derivative.  It&#8217;s clear what Mr. Patton thinks.<\/p>\n<p>I just love this clip &#8212; but I can&#8217;t decide whether Patton&#8217;s frank assessment of Wolfmother&#8217;s talents is refreshingly candid or just plain assholish.  What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, professional necessity took me in an odd direction, and I found myself searching YouTube for recent material from former Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton. In amongst the noisy spoken-word pieces, hardcore-meets-dub club performances and other fringe-y ephemera, I found this: Does anybody remember Wolfmother? I think we briefly argued about <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mike-patton-orockle-or-asshole\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}