{"id":2176,"date":"2009-05-23T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T15:31:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:17:57","slug":"rock-crimes-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-crimes-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey, Styx, and REO Speedwagon Align Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/art.styx.reo.gi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Time to strap on a dynamite belt?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a recent thread <strong>Townsman Chickenfrank<\/strong> made the following comment that is worthy of bringing to The Main Stage, as part of our occasional <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/c20\/\">Rock Crimes<\/a><\/strong> series. His comment may still qualify as May&#8217;s Comment of the Month (I&#8217;ll have to consult with the judges), but until then, this is too important a topic not to bring to the fore.<\/p>\n<p>Chick wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>CNN<\/strong> has an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/05\/23\/ent.bands.reunite\/?iref=t2test_entsat\" target=\"_blank\">classic rock bands reuniting and recording new material together<\/a>. The photo of <strong>Journey<\/strong>, <strong>Styx<\/strong>, and <strong>REO Speedwagon<\/strong> all together seems akin to <strong>Hitler<\/strong>, <strong>Pol Pot<\/strong>, and <strong>Idi Amin<\/strong> miraculously being together simultaneously. If I were to strap on a dynamite belt and eliminate either of those trios, would the country celebrate a 3-day weekend for me?<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for new songs by <strong>Chicago<\/strong> and <strong>Earth Wind and Fire<\/strong> together. I assume <strong>Tower of Power<\/strong> was busy that weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chick&#8217;s question raises a number of other questions that may be worth discussing here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If his dynamite belt could eliminate only two out of three of these heinous bands, which one would (to be clear I ask <em>would<\/em> not <em>should<\/em>) survive?<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Steven Speilberg<\/strong> film of this historic event, who would play our real-life hero, Chickenfrank?<\/li>\n<li>Which band is <strong>Mussolini<\/strong> and who in the rock industry is <strong>Chamberlain<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve got thoughts of your own on these questions as well as others. On this Memorial Day weekend, I think it&#8217;s only right that you share. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to strap on a dynamite belt? In a recent thread Townsman Chickenfrank made the following comment that is worthy of bringing to The Main Stage, as part of our occasional Rock Crimes series. His comment may still qualify as May&#8217;s Comment of the Month (I&#8217;ll have to consult with the judges), but until then, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-crimes-journey\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,20],"tags":[595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176"}],"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=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}