{"id":22400,"date":"2015-04-14T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22400"},"modified":"2015-04-14T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:35:21","slug":"how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-love-the-sonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-love-the-sonics\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love The Sonics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a buzz went through social media and the Philadelphia rock scene in the days leading up to The Sonics<\/strong>\u2019 Sunday night appearance at the TLA, I found myself feeling shamefully out of step. It seemed all of my friends would be there, all of my friends, that is, beside my quartet of fellow rock \u2018n roll curmudgeons. I wanted to post some holier-than-thou thought on the matter, but that wouldn\u2019t have been cool, not even by my standards. I wanted to pick up the phone and bitch to my friend Anthony, but he was out of town on business. Bitching to Larry wouldn\u2019t have gone any further than, \u201cMost of that Nuggets shit sucks.\u201d Mark wouldn\u2019t have cared quite enough for a satisfying bitch session, and beside, I had another cruel rock observation cued up to share with him. Sam was probably half interested in the show, having played in bands that cut their teeth on that Nuggets shit.<\/p>\n

I dig that Nuggets shit, but for all their bit-chomping energy, The Sonics\u2019 comic-book kee-ray-zee<\/i> lyrics were always a distraction. Rock\u2019s long tradition of Creature Double Feature insanity has never appealed to me. I\u2019m more interested in rock\u2019s true loons, the ones who shine a light on the human condition. Even \u201cStrychnine,\u201d the one song by The Sonics that can make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up rings a bit hollow if I stop to consider the lyrics. You can see why there are only 4 guys on earth I can trust with these feelings. CONTINUED AT PHAWKER<\/em><\/strong>…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a buzz went through social media and the Philadelphia rock scene in the days leading up to The Sonics\u2019 Sunday night appearance at the TLA, I found myself feeling shamefully out of step. It seemed all of my friends would be there, all of my friends, that is, beside my quartet of fellow rock […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}