{"id":2005,"date":"2009-02-12T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T20:13:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-06T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:48:09","slug":"win-win-collaborations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/win-win-collaborations\/","title":{"rendered":"Win-Win Collaborations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rWi7MxFw6rQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Rock collaborations between major artists can result in fantastic outcomes. I&#8217;m not talking about rock&#8217;s legendary one-shot duets, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/01\/15\/rock_crimes\">Ja-Bo<\/a> or &#8220;Ebony and Ivory,&#8221; but full-blown collaborations or instances in which one established artist produces a slightly less-established artist. I would think that fans of one artist or another may feel that their favorite in the collaboration either lifted his or her collaborator by the bootstraps or, if the favorite artist was the perceived submissive partner in the collaboration, been held down or otherwise tainted by the more-popular partner.  Following are just some collaborations. You tell me which artist <strong>benefitted<\/strong> most from the collaboration, which artist <strong>suffered<\/strong>, or if the collaboration was a rare case of a <strong>win-win<\/strong> partnership. In other words: <em>Who wins? Who loses?<\/em> Feel free to focus your thoughts on any one of these pairs. Feel free to call in a new pair for discussion. I expect we will have some <em>initial<\/em> disagreement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Bowie and Iggy Pop<\/li>\n<li>Robert Plant and Alison Krauss<\/li>\n<li>Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra<\/li>\n<li>Eric Clapton and Duane Allman<\/li>\n<li>Robert Fripp and Brian Eno<\/li>\n<li>David Bowie and Brian Eno<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers<\/li>\n<li>Buckingham-Nicks and Fleetwood Mac<\/li>\n<li>Daryl Hall and Robert Fripp<\/li>\n<li>Lou Reed and David Bowie<\/li>\n<li>Brian Eno and Talking Heads<\/li>\n<li>Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds<\/li>\n<li>Jefferson Airplane and Papa John Creach<\/li>\n<li>Bob Dylan and The Band<\/li>\n<li>U2 and Brian Eno\/Daniel Lanois<\/li>\n<li>Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne<\/li>\n<li>David Bowie and Mott the Hoople<\/li>\n<li>Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart<\/li>\n<li>Brian Eno and Coldplay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I look forward to your responses.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock collaborations between major artists can result in fantastic outcomes. I&#8217;m not talking about rock&#8217;s legendary one-shot duets, such as Ja-Bo or &#8220;Ebony and Ivory,&#8221; but full-blown collaborations or instances in which one established artist produces a slightly less-established artist. I would think that fans of one artist or another may feel that their favorite <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/win-win-collaborations\/' 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":[54,18,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"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=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}