{"id":24096,"date":"2021-03-08T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24096"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:23:03","slug":"he-was-a-great-man-or-if-you-cant-think-of-something-nice-to-say-you-decide-john-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-great-man-or-if-you-cant-think-of-something-nice-to-say-you-decide-john-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"He was a great man, or if you can&#8217;t think of something nice to say, you decide: John Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/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=\"Guitarist - John Russell\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xBvBLJ4IZd8?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>Ok, I may be in a minority here, never having heard, or heard of, the late, great John Russell before today. I just read <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/mar\/07\/john-russell-obituary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\">his obituary in <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>,  and thought he sounded like a bit of a character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like, who couldn&#8217;t love a guy who built his own record deck out of wood and an old radio so he could listen to The Rock Machine Turns You On and We&#8217;re Only in it for the Money? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments on the article also piqued my interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like over there, but here, apart from axe murderers and TV personalities who disappeared after being caught doing something dreadful, everyone speaks well of the deceased and raises either a real or rhetorical glass to speed them on their way. I&#8217;ve even done it myself, on occasion. It helps pass the time during lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was interested, therefore, to find them ranging from &#8220;what the&#8230;&#8221; to &#8220;what the actual&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;interesting, but not for me&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I spotted the link to the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched the first two and a half minutes, which, at the length of a Freddie and the Dreamers or Buzzcocks single always feels like the right length of time to formulate an opinion. Nine minutes, in my opinion, is a little on the long side, but I&#8217;m probably out of practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, ladies and gentlemen of the Hall, I would love to hear what you think of this, and possibly learn what I&#8217;m missing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I may be in a minority here, never having heard, or heard of, the late, great John Russell before today. I just read his obituary in The Guardian, and thought he sounded like a bit of a character. Like, who couldn&#8217;t love a guy who built his own record deck out of wood and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-great-man-or-if-you-cant-think-of-something-nice-to-say-you-decide-john-russell\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096"}],"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\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}