{"id":2007,"date":"2009-02-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-12T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T23:19:41","slug":"talented-rock-artist-you-d-most-like-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/talented-rock-artist-you-d-most-like-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Talented Rock Artist You&#8217;d Most Like to Give a Wedgie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u96COiazRS8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nMention, yesterday, of <strong>Jonathan Richman<\/strong>&#8216;s disregard for the great <strong>Modern Lovers<\/strong> album that <strong>John Cale<\/strong> produced made me think of this most juvenile thread: <em>What talented rock artist would you most like to give a wedgie?<\/em> For me it&#8217;s Richman. Once he ditched the straight-edge VU sound of his early recordings and got into all that cutsie thumb-sucking music, I&#8217;m ready to yank up his briefs and see if I can&#8217;t get the elastic up to his shoulders. How about you? I know most of you are a lot nicer than I am, but what talented rock artist would you most like to give a wedgie? (It&#8217;s gotta be someone who&#8217;s produced a record or two that you love and at one time put a lot of stock in &#8211; not some band like <strong>Journey<\/strong>, unless you ever loved anything by them and are willing to admit that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mention, yesterday, of Jonathan Richman&#8216;s disregard for the great Modern Lovers album that John Cale produced made me think of this most juvenile thread: What talented rock artist would you most like to give a wedgie? For me it&#8217;s Richman. Once he ditched the straight-edge VU sound of his early recordings and got into all <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/talented-rock-artist-you-d-most-like-to\/' 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":[150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}