{"id":2127,"date":"2009-04-19T22:28:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:28:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-17T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:45:01","slug":"who-would-have-thought-metalheads-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-would-have-thought-metalheads-could\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Would Have Thought Metalheads Could Have the Best Rock Talk Show on TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rMAcLiJ8JZQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHave you ever seen the <strong>VH1 Classic<\/strong> show <em>That Metal Show<\/em>? Every once in a while I&#8217;m flipping channels and, although I have almost zero interest in heavy metal music, I stop flipping when this show is on and watch for about 15 minutes. It&#8217;s really well done, and I&#8217;m envious that Rock Town Hall doesn&#8217;t have its own VH1 Classic show on which we could do our thing, discuss our music, with a live audience composed of our Townspeople.<\/p>\n<p>For as little as I know and care about metal, I know even less about the hosts, some guy named <strong>Eddie Trunk<\/strong> and his two middle-aged buddies. I know not a thing about these dudes, in fact, but I care about them. They&#8217;re funny enough. They&#8217;re nerdy, knowledgeable, and opinionated about the music they love. <em>They love the music they love for many of the same reasons, from solid to ridiculous, that we love the music we love.<\/em> Unlike other, rare rock discussion shows I&#8217;ve seen on tv or heard on the radio over the years (eg, that radio show out of Chicago), <em>That Metal Show<\/em> doesn&#8217;t seem to be loaded with stock, publicist-inspired crit-ass kissing. This show seems more natural and sincere.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never seen this show, I suggest you check it out. If you have seen it, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen the VH1 Classic show That Metal Show? Every once in a while I&#8217;m flipping channels and, although I have almost zero interest in heavy metal music, I stop flipping when this show is on and watch for about 15 minutes. It&#8217;s really well done, and I&#8217;m envious that Rock Town Hall <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-would-have-thought-metalheads-could\/' 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":[260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}