{"id":23622,"date":"2020-05-25T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23622"},"modified":"2020-05-25T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T19:54:01","slug":"the-niceness-of-rock-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-niceness-of-rock-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Niceness of Rock (Town Hall)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve long had the pleasure in knowing <strong>Townsman Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong> in real life. He&#8217;s got the sort of whiz-bang mind I imagine it would take to work in a presidential administration. An even remotely functioning one with an even remotely empathetic leader, that is. He&#8217;s a great musician, one who combines chop, theoretical knowledge, and balls. And he&#8217;s nice. Like &#8220;bring him home to meet your folks&#8221; nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few people have written me offline since the start of our pandemic-relief resumption of activities in the Halls of Rock to ask why we haven&#8217;t seen more of our beloved HVB, one of the undeniable white hats around here. Well, the man&#8217;s been hunkered down in Dallas churning out a dozen (and counting) new songs. His latest one, &#8220;The Niceness of Rock,&#8221; dropped just the other day, as I was finishing up my own new song. I waited until I was done with my work to watch it, because I feared I&#8217;d get intimidated by my friend&#8217;s latest work, no matter how nice he is. Well, I finally listened to it, and the first thing I thought was, &#8220;That sounds like the new theme song for Rock Town Hall!&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next thing I thought, ignoring the graphic he posted with the track, was &#8220;That&#8217;s mighty presumptuous of me! Why would he have been thinking about Rock Town Hall why writing about the niceness of rock?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you know, about 30 minutes later, I got an e-mail from my friend with the subject line &#8220;New RTH Theme Song for a New Decade!&#8221; He did have us in mind! That, my friends, is nice! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without further ado, here&#8217;s &#8220;The Niceness of Rock.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Niceness of Rock\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oYngzqB5vvM?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long had the pleasure in knowing Townsman Hrrundivbakshi in real life. He&#8217;s got the sort of whiz-bang mind I imagine it would take to work in a presidential administration. An even remotely functioning one with an even remotely empathetic leader, that is. He&#8217;s a great musician, one who combines chop, theoretical knowledge, and balls. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-niceness-of-rock-town-hall\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622"}],"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=23622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}