{"id":23770,"date":"2020-08-20T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23770"},"modified":"2020-08-20T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:21:54","slug":"all-star-jam-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/all-star-jam-310\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Busy day ahead, but a couple of newsy notes have come across my desk that I thought might be of interest for this week&#8217;s All-Star Jam. Let&#8217;s kick things off with this tribute to <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong>, who according to some right-wing nut has a &#8220;Jezebel spirit.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Jezebel Spirit, Eno\/Byrne\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hoG2rAkAQvI?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, for a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/19\/arts\/music\/albums-price.html\" target=\"_blank\">story in the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> that interested me&#8230; I hope you can get past the paywall. If not, this piece starts with an artist who saw his albums being resold on Discogs for as high as $77, so he priced his new album at $77, thinking he might as well get that money. And he has! The article also references the single copy of the <strong>Wu-Tang Clan<\/strong> album that was released and auctioned off years ago, an event I was highly jealous of, because I&#8217;d been thinking for years, as a highly unsuccessful artist, <em>Why bother pressing 1000 independently released albums when we could press one and possibly sell it at a high enough price to equal what we make when we press 1000 and end up with 600 unsold copies in my garage?<\/em> Plenty of food for thought in this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other newsy note I want to pass along is an oldie but goodie for most of us, but how great is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/jimi-hendrix-all-along-the-watchtower-bob-dylan-isolated-guitar\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>&#8216;s version of &#8220;All Along the Watchtower&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jam on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy day ahead, but a couple of newsy notes have come across my desk that I thought might be of interest for this week&#8217;s All-Star Jam. Let&#8217;s kick things off with this tribute to Kamala Harris, who according to some right-wing nut has a &#8220;Jezebel spirit.&#8221; Now, for a story in the New York Times <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/all-star-jam-310\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770"}],"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=23770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}