{"id":19755,"date":"2013-08-09T15:06:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19755"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:25:05","slug":"drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i33P0eVrKvM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>This afternoon, Mr. Royale and I are driving up to Mendocino to attend a friend&#8217;s wedding. Invariably, we have a discussion about what music we want to bring: for long drives, having just the right music ready for your Ever Changing Moods is, as you will invariably agree, very important. Can&#8217;t have too much jangle. And while Loud, Fast and Out of Control tunes can be helpful for long straightaways, it won&#8217;t work on twisty, turny Route 1. Don&#8217;t suggest that mp3 crap, or at least not yet. We haven&#8217;t found the perfect mp3 delivery system yet so we bring along good old-fashioned compact discs.<\/p>\n<p>Our go-to album for a long drive is <em>Tusk<\/em>. I don&#8217;t know exactly how this came to be, but I know that we both always felt that this album was somewhat unfairly overlooked in favor of <em>Rumours<\/em>. I think it became our #1 Drive album by it&#8217;s mix of familiar radio hits, changes in tempo, <strong>Lindsey<\/strong>&#8216;s string of thematically-related contributions, and the inclusion of African elements into that Laurel Canyon sound. The album&#8217;s iconic place in our driving set list was set during our honeymoon, when we were meandering all over California (and I was bugging Mr. Royale by asking him whether each particular town or hovel could be a place he would want to relocate).<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon we might shake it up a bit and bring along <strong>Camper Van Beethoven<\/strong>&#8216;s cover of the album. However, somewhere along the 5-hour ride, we&#8217;ll have answered the question of &#8220;What Makes You Think You&#8217;re The One?&#8221; and bring along that favorite driving album.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your go-to albums for a long drive?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Mr. Royale and I are driving up to Mendocino to attend a friend&#8217;s wedding. Invariably, we have a discussion about what music we want to bring: for long drives, having just the right music ready for your Ever Changing Moods is, as you will invariably agree, very important. Can&#8217;t have too much jangle. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/drive\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[837,838,469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}