{"id":2268,"date":"2009-08-14T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-12T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:17:15","slug":"acclaimed-live-rock-bands-that-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/acclaimed-live-rock-bands-that-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed Live Rock Bands That Actually Turn Out to Be Studio Concoctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1CwDATKs5c?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>WORLD&#8217;s GREATEST BAND! THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS!<\/em>&#8230; I&#8217;m not going to make any claims on anyone else&#8217;s behalf, but <em>for me<\/em>, I found that <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> and <strong>The Clash<\/strong>, Twin Towers of live rock &#8216;n roll credibility, were sorely disappointing live and actually seemed to derive as much as their legendary status and goodwill from studio wizardry as frequently derided bands, such as <strong>ELO<\/strong> and <strong>The Monkees<\/strong>. I never got to see the early Clash, documented at their ferocious live peak in the film <em>Rude Boy<\/em> (eg, the &#8220;Complete Control&#8221; footage above), but it seems to me that once they expanded their studio sound with the excellent <em>London Calling<\/em> and the rich <em>Sandinista<\/em>, <strong>Mick Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Simonon<\/strong> couldn&#8217;t keep up, couldn&#8217;t present their newer music adequately in a live setting, and at the same time lost the focus to deliver the old stuff. Who knows, maybe that was poor Brian Jones&#8217; fault too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you ever felt this way about any band you love that was hyped up as having tremendous live cred?<\/em> Do I just feel this way because I tend to be a &#8220;record&#8221; guy rather than a live guy, or have you too ever been psyched to see some &#8220;amazing&#8221; live band only to leave the show looking forward to getting back to their crafted studio records?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORLD&#8217;s GREATEST BAND! THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS!&#8230; I&#8217;m not going to make any claims on anyone else&#8217;s behalf, but for me, I found that The Rolling Stones and The Clash, Twin Towers of live rock &#8216;n roll credibility, were sorely disappointing live and actually seemed to derive as much as their legendary status and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/acclaimed-live-rock-bands-that-actually\/' 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":[45,36,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"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=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}