{"id":24184,"date":"2021-04-20T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24184"},"modified":"2021-04-20T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:11:13","slug":"the-band-of-theseus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-band-of-theseus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Band of Theseus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I want to get more philosophical today and talk about what makes a band a band. The title is a reference to the Ship of Theseus, which I\u2019ll throw a Wikipedia link to in case anyone doesn\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ship_of_Theseus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ship_of_Theseus<\/a>. Essentially the question I\u2019m asking here is as follows: At what point does a band stop becoming the same band? I have a few theories and I\u2019d love to hear what either you guys have to say or if you have any other theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5>Theory #1: The Same Name, Same Band Theory<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This one is fairly easy to follow, if the group has the same name it\u2019s the same band. No matter what personnel changes are made, the band is the same as long as it keeps the name it started with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5>Theory #2: The Integral Member Theory<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some bands that just wouldn\u2019t be the same without one specific member. What springs to mind for me when thinking of this is <strong>Kim Deal<\/strong> of <strong>The Pixies<\/strong>. As the old adage goes; without Kim, there\u2019s no Deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5>Theory #3: The Majority Replacement Theory<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This theory is also fairly easy, if the majority of members of the band are replaced or changed out, it is no longer the same band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5>Theory #4: The Original Purity Theory<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The most hardline of the theories that I can think of. If there are any changes to the band\u2019s lineup, no matter how small, it is no longer the same band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So get to work rock philosophers, and solve the question that we have all been asking for ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to get more philosophical today and talk about what makes a band a band. The title is a reference to the Ship of Theseus, which I\u2019ll throw a Wikipedia link to in case anyone doesn\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ship_of_Theseus. Essentially the question I\u2019m asking here is as follows: At what point <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-band-of-theseus\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3649,"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\/24184"}],"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\/3649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}