{"id":2205,"date":"2009-06-18T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-18T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T11:33:35","slug":"turned-on-burdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/turned-on-burdon\/","title":{"rendered":"Turned-On Burdon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_DqWIhSZYWQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nFor your pleasure, may I invite you to turn on with <strong>Eric Burdon and the Animals<\/strong>. Following are some tracks from the band&#8217;s 1966 to 1968 period. You may recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/06\/09\/psychedelic-eric-burdon-turn-on-or-tune\">we discussed this period<\/a> last week. I&#8217;ll spare you the studio version of my personal favorite, &#8220;San Franciscan Nights,&#8221; and if you don&#8217;t think &#8220;Sky Pilot&#8221; is one of the coolest &#8220;acid rock&#8221; songs ever we may have to part ways, baby. <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjGvMajsxtU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs you listen to these tracks, think about the whole concept of Eric Burdon getting tuned in, think about an age in which Angry, Young Eric could begin to feel like he belonged, <em>man<\/em>. I mean, just a couple of years earlier he had to get outta that place. Check out the video that opens this thread and tell me you&#8217;re not witnessing the transformation at work. These songs must have begun the process of lifting a tremendous weight off Angry, Young Eric.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/DontBringMeDown.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Bring Me Down&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/InsideLookingOut.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Inside Looking Out&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/WhenIWasYoung.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;When I Was Young&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/GoodTimes.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Good Times&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Monterey.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Monterey&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another day, perhaps, we can explore the next phase of Eric&#8217;s career, in which he wrestles with his <em>Black Man&#8217;s Burdon<\/em>, so to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your pleasure, may I invite you to turn on with Eric Burdon and the Animals. Following are some tracks from the band&#8217;s 1966 to 1968 period. You may recall we discussed this period last week. I&#8217;ll spare you the studio version of my personal favorite, &#8220;San Franciscan Nights,&#8221; and if you don&#8217;t think &#8220;Sky <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/turned-on-burdon\/' 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":[44,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}