{"id":24052,"date":"2021-02-27T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T23:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24052"},"modified":"2021-02-27T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T23:58:22","slug":"a-replacement-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-replacement-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A Replacement Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Replacements-Skyway\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/faAFVcm4A4M?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About halfway through the recent RTH Zoomfest, somebody brought up the topic of the Replacements, kinda\/sorta as a &#8220;butwhatabout&#8221; response to a typically outrageous EPG suggestion that nothing good came out of the 1980s as far as music was concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Townsman CDM gamely offered to put together a Replacements playlist that he thought might win EPG over, or just put what he thought was the placemats&#8217; best on display, or provided a succinct overview of the band&#8217;s output, or something.   We moved onto other topics, touching on &#8212; oh, I don&#8217;t remember; it was all a bit of a blur after someone started gabbing about Wishbone Ash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow, the Replacements blah-blah inspired me to cue some of their music up for my afternoon walkabout, and I chose an LP I remembered somewhat fondly:  &#8220;Pleased To Meet Me.&#8221;  Sadly, I was surprised by how much of it just kinda sat there for me, after about 25 years.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having said that, there were two tracks that still sounded sublime to these ears: &#8220;Alex Chilton&#8221; and &#8220;Skyway.&#8221;  I&#8217;m not going to bother posting a link to &#8220;&#8230;Chilton,&#8221; because I feel certain Gergles will find a reason \u2014 probably having to do with the gated reverb on the snare \u2014 to hate it.  But I am posting &#8220;Skyway,&#8221; because, hell, that song got even more beautiful with the passage of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EPG, I demand that you acknowledge the beauty and the brilliance of &#8220;Skyway&#8221; by the Replacements!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About halfway through the recent RTH Zoomfest, somebody brought up the topic of the Replacements, kinda\/sorta as a &#8220;butwhatabout&#8221; response to a typically outrageous EPG suggestion that nothing good came out of the 1980s as far as music was concerned. Townsman CDM gamely offered to put together a Replacements playlist that he thought might win <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-replacement-post\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/24052"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}