{"id":2310,"date":"2009-09-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-02T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:45:40","slug":"lemgon-recordl-emg-which-was-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lemgon-recordl-emg-which-was-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>On Record<\/em>, Which Was the Better Cover Band: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_V2ESk8ASeM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIf we only include <em>officially released<\/em> recordings, which was the better cover band, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Covers on bootlegs are not allowed for consideration, but covers-rich collections like <em>The Beatles at the Beeb<\/em> are in the mix. <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EvefZ2imnQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not about to dictate the meaning of &#8220;better cover band,&#8221; so you may use your own criteria, from &#8220;most authentic covers&#8221; or &#8220;ability to make the cover songs their own.&#8221; Each band&#8217;s entire body of work shall be taken into account, meaning the Stones may benefit from or be harmed by the inclusion of covers from their releases over the past 20 years. <em>Please show your work.<\/em> I&#8217;ve got some thoughts on the matter myself, but they&#8217;re not fully formed. I look forward to our working this out together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we only include officially released recordings, which was the better cover band, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Covers on bootlegs are not allowed for consideration, but covers-rich collections like The Beatles at the Beeb are in the mix. I&#8217;m not about to dictate the meaning of &#8220;better cover band,&#8221; so you may use <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lemgon-recordl-emg-which-was-the-better\/' 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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310"}],"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=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}