{"id":2238,"date":"2009-07-09T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-09T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:39:14","slug":"let-s-see-you-pipe-tamp-brandy-snift-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-see-you-pipe-tamp-brandy-snift-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s See You Pipe-Tamp, Brandy-Snift and Leather-Elbow-Patch Your Way Out Of THIS One, Dr. John!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P06fI4n1MH8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Recently, Mr. Mod asked the assembled multitudes of RTH to choose between:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ALL of Michael Jackson&#8217;s solo output EXCEPT for his four best songs<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pat Benatar&#8217;s two best &#8220;hits&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, like the Velvet Foghorn, I actually *like* at least one Pat Benatar song.  But I posited to the group that &#8212; even if I found Pat Benatar&#8217;s entire solo ouvre completely without merit &#8212; the choice between listening to TWO songs I hated and having to listen to 70 or 80 godawful MJ non-hits was an easy one to make.  I just chose the path that required me to listen to less crap.   On a quantitative basis, I mean.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VzK6GmfDcpc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Well, Dr. John wasn&#8217;t convinced.  Or maybe I didn&#8217;t make my point clear enough with my elephant dung vs. dog shit metaphor.  That&#8217;s okay.  I&#8217;m prepared to meet the good doctor on his own preferred field of battle, and furnish him with a non-top-four MJ single that I believe he&#8217;ll concede would be far more painful to endure than a Pat Benatar hit.  I&#8217;m prepared to leave aside the fact that &#8212; according to Mod&#8217;s Big Choice Poll question &#8212; Dr. John would have to listen to not just this one MJ song, but literally 70 or 80 more that are not much better, rather than listen to *only* &#8220;Hit Me With Your Best Shot&#8221; and, say, &#8220;Heartbreaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So how about it, Dr. John?  Can you explain to me why this song is better than &#8220;Hit Me With Your Best Shot&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your response.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Mr. Mod asked the assembled multitudes of RTH to choose between: &#8211; ALL of Michael Jackson&#8217;s solo output EXCEPT for his four best songs &#8230;and &#8211; Pat Benatar&#8217;s two best &#8220;hits&#8221; Now, like the Velvet Foghorn, I actually *like* at least one Pat Benatar song. But I posited to the group that &#8212; even <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-see-you-pipe-tamp-brandy-snift-and\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/2238"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}