{"id":2023,"date":"2009-02-24T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:37:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:37:36","slug":"cool-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cool-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZ8xM83fMhU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhich rocker gets a <strong>Cool Pass<\/strong> from you? For all you can tell this rocker made little significant contribution to his or her band other than a major injection of <em>cool<\/em>. For this reason alone you, highly discriminating Townsperson, has given this rocker a Cool Pass. For me it&#8217;s <strong>Brian Jones<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s not all about his hair. <\/p>\n<p>History tells us that Jones was integral in the Stones coming together and developing their R&amp;B-based sound, but watch an early clip of the band, before he was completely wasted, and tell me his animal magnetism doesn&#8217;t create rock&#8217;s first Isoceles Triangle of Cool with Jagger and Richards, no matter how what subtle or exotic touch he was adding to a song. What other band&#8217;s third banana always threatened to steal the audience&#8217;s attention the way a young Brian Jones did? Maybe Eno, if he was considered a third banana after Ferry and Manzanera? Brian Jones, you have earned a Cool Pass from me. You&#8217;ve each got one Cool Pass to hand out, if you deem it necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which rocker gets a Cool Pass from you? For all you can tell this rocker made little significant contribution to his or her band other than a major injection of cool. For this reason alone you, highly discriminating Townsperson, has given this rocker a Cool Pass. For me it&#8217;s Brian Jones, and it&#8217;s not all <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cool-pass\/' 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":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023"}],"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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}