{"id":23861,"date":"2020-10-15T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23861"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:18:31","slug":"is-this-the-quintessential-classic-rock-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-this-the-quintessential-classic-rock-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This the Quintessential Classic Rock Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"\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=\"Boston-Let Me Take You Home Tonight\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-FgKHG5Oes?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, we discussed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/which-band-reduced-rock-n-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\">which band reduced rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll to its cliched essence<\/a>. Now, I ask you to confirm to me that the above song represents &#8220;classic rock&#8221; at its most depressingly pro forma. It starts out sorta &#8220;mellow&#8221; and reflective before transitioning to a &#8220;rockin'&#8221; outro. (A reverse-&#8220;Layla&#8221;?) A perfect simulacrum of passion, good times, summer vibes, etc. with as little thought given to the lyrics as humanly possible. But then I think of some hesher tooling around in his Trans Am rocking out to this, and I can&#8217;t help but smile. Even if I&#8217;m fairly sure that scenario simply never happens anymore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Previously, we discussed which band reduced rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll to its cliched essence. Now, I ask you to confirm to me that the above song represents &#8220;classic rock&#8221; at its most depressingly pro forma. It starts out sorta &#8220;mellow&#8221; and reflective before transitioning to a &#8220;rockin&#8217;&#8221; outro. (A reverse-&#8220;Layla&#8221;?) A perfect simulacrum of passion, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-this-the-quintessential-classic-rock-song\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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\/23861"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}