{"id":2416,"date":"2009-11-13T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-13T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:34:01","slug":"dissecting-the-body-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dissecting-the-body-of-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting the Body of Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Performancelips.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">The lips of rock.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Townsman chuckflack<\/strong>, seemingly inspired by our recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/10\/27\/last-man-standing-body-parts\">anatomy-themed Last Man Standing<\/a>, asked that we consider the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>, upon inducting <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said, &#8220;Bob freed the mind the way Elvis freed the body.&#8221; A pretty succinct summation. Given the premise, how do you fill out the best of rock&#8217;s body? <\/p>\n<p>When guarding a man in basketball, they always tell you to watch the guy&#8217;s stomach: it&#8217;s not going anywhere the man isn&#8217;t. So, starting with the gut, the center of gravity, obviously the <strong>latter-day Elvis<\/strong> is the one. And of course, <strong>early Elvis<\/strong> is the pelvis. From my anatomical perspective, Dylan&#8217;s the brain, <strong>The Beatles<\/strong> the heart, <strong>The Stones<\/strong> the balls, <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> the cock, <strong>Madonna<\/strong> the pussy, and <strong>Ray Charles<\/strong> the soul. <\/p>\n<p><em>Argue, or continue filling out the body parts.<\/em> Spleen? Feet? Jowls? Larynx?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lips of rock. Townsman chuckflack, seemingly inspired by our recent anatomy-themed Last Man Standing, asked that we consider the following: Bruce Springsteen, upon inducting Bob Dylan to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said, &#8220;Bob freed the mind the way Elvis freed the body.&#8221; A pretty succinct summation. Given the premise, how do <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dissecting-the-body-of-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416"}],"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=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}