{"id":2170,"date":"2009-05-18T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-18T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:26:48","slug":"artists-you-were-really-excited-to-see-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/artists-you-were-really-excited-to-see-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists You Were Really Excited to See That Turned Out to Be Terrible Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXjy2BaDHxE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Townsperson jeangray<\/strong>, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/catch-em-while-you-can\">recent thread<\/a>, raised a point that&#8217;s worth bringing to The Main Stage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps we need to do a thread about artists we were really excited to see that turned out to be terrible live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps we do. Thanks, jeangray!<\/p>\n<p>The first artist who came to mind for me was <strong>James Blood Ulmer<\/strong>, about 10 years ago. Rather than the charging, repetitive stuff I&#8217;d come to love of his, his live show at some <strong>Saturnismine<\/strong>-approved alternative rec hall was nothing more than the shambling, out-of-tune noise that our tone-savvy friend <strong>Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong> probably hears when he hears the music of James Blood Ulmer. To make matters worse he had the last hippie, flute-playing woman on earth blowing along with this racket. As much as I wanted to like the show, it really sucked. Even more than the one and only time I got to see <strong>The Clash<\/strong>, on their <em>Combat Rock<\/em> tour. That show was merely &#8220;humbling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsperson jeangray, in a recent thread, raised a point that&#8217;s worth bringing to The Main Stage: Perhaps we need to do a thread about artists we were really excited to see that turned out to be terrible live. Perhaps we do. Thanks, jeangray! The first artist who came to mind for me was James Blood <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/artists-you-were-really-excited-to-see-t\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"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=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}