{"id":21580,"date":"2014-05-09T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21580"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:59:53","slug":"mach-schau-for-entertainment-value-alone-which-era-of-rock-is-most-likely-to-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau-for-entertainment-value-alone-which-era-of-rock-is-most-likely-to-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mach Schau!<\/em> For Entertainment Value Alone, Which Era of Rock Is Most Likely to Deliver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For entertainment value alone, which era of rock &#8216;n roll do you feel is most likely to deliver the goods? For instance, if I&#8217;m blindfolded and reach my hand into a bag of unmarked rock &#8216;n roll performances from a given era, the bag of early 1970s rock is likely to turn up a gem\u2014strictly from an overall entertainment value, not necessarily a musical one\u2014such as this 1971 performance by <strong>Atomic Rooster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Soy4x-H4gI4\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I get no musical satisfaction out of this clip, yet I&#8217;m happy as a clam to watch these prog-blooz hippies hunker down in their suede, fringe, and headbands and manufacture what are, to my ears, exciting tones, regardless of the music that emanates from those tones.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, like so many geeks around here, I&#8217;m more easily satisfied by records from 1966 and 1967, but perhaps because some of the music I most love is from that period I get thrown for a loop when confronted with a random selection that offends my aesthetic sensibilities, like this:<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sH2oI2H2lGE\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the 1967 grab bag promises something that sets me squarely on the fence, between Love and Hate, like this:<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmG2eoDDNeY\" height=\"236\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau-for-entertainment-value-alone-which-era-of-rock-is-most-likely-to-deliver\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau-for-entertainment-value-alone-which-era-of-rock-is-most-likely-to-deliver\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau-for-entertainment-value-alone-which-era-of-rock-is-most-likely-to-deliver\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For entertainment value alone, which era of rock &#8216;n roll do you feel is most likely to deliver the goods? For instance, if I&#8217;m blindfolded and reach my hand into a bag of unmarked rock &#8216;n roll performances from a given era, the bag of early 1970s rock is likely to turn up a gem\u2014strictly <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mach-schau-for-entertainment-value-alone-which-era-of-rock-is-most-likely-to-deliver\/' 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":[212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580"}],"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=21580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}