{"id":2154,"date":"2009-05-06T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-06T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T16:19:47","slug":"last-man-standing-bands-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-bands-promo\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Rock&#8217;s Cross-Promotional, Prime-Time Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e3Lb7Y4_zYk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHow many instances of real musicians\/bands appearing on a prime-time television shows (<em>variety shows excluded<\/em>) primarily as an excuse to promote a new song can we recall? Pure acting gigs by musicians do not count, but we&#8217;ll accept acting\/performing appearances <em>as characters other than themselves, provided that their performing characters are not too different than their usual performing selves.<\/em> For instance, there&#8217;s an episode of <em>Columbo<\/em> in which <strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong> acts and performs as a character, <strong>Tommy Brown<\/strong>. That would count because, as you can see in the following clip from that episode, Tommy Brown has just enough of a resemblance to Johnny Cash.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8vouJBurjOM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Had Cash done Tommy Brown as a black jazz trumpet player, however, his performance on a prime-time tv show would NOT have counted. Get it? <\/p>\n<p>I expect that this Last Man Standing could continue well into the summer.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>NOTE:<\/em> There are likely websites out there that catalogs these types of appearances. I ask you not to access such websites for the duration of this Last Man Standing.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many instances of real musicians\/bands appearing on a prime-time television shows (variety shows excluded) primarily as an excuse to promote a new song can we recall? Pure acting gigs by musicians do not count, but we&#8217;ll accept acting\/performing appearances as characters other than themselves, provided that their performing characters are not too different than <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-bands-promo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}