{"id":2422,"date":"2009-11-12T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-12T12:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T12:13:31","slug":"boss-cuts-from-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/boss-cuts-from-the-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss Cuts From the Basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/chess.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"393\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A number of our Founding Townspeople migrated to this Rock Town Hall blog from our humble, spirited origins as a <strong>Yahoo Groups<\/strong> list. Although it&#8217;s no longer well trafficked, the old list is still active. I refer to it as &#8220;The Basement,&#8221; out of respect for our <strong>Rupert Pupkin<\/strong>-like origins, while a disgruntled handful of RTH founders call the old list the &#8220;Chess&#8221; edition to our current &#8220;Mercury&#8221; edition and still refuse to join us in the brilliant light of day. Regardless of all that nonsense, a few Townspeople still feel comfortable drifting from one spot to the other, dropping notes of upcoming releases and wiseacre responses, when appropriate. I check in there now and then to see what raw power still ferments. The other day I found the following nascent thread, which I think needs to see the light of day. First the initial post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Re: Springsteen to perform more albums in entirety<br \/>\n&#8220;[name removed]&#8221; wrote:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20091104\/music_nm\/us_springsteen_1\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20091104\/music_nm\/us_springsteen_1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Billboard) \u2013 Bruce Springsteen is dusting off his catalog once again, as he and the E Street Band have announced two more full-album performances this coming weekend at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday (November 7), the group will play the Boss&#8217; 1973 album &#8220;The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle&#8221; in its entirety for the first time; on Sunday (November 8) they&#8217;ll tackle the 1980 double record &#8220;The River&#8221; from beginning to end for the first time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the follow-up, posted shortly thereafter:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1a. Re: Springsteen to perform more albums in entirety<br \/>\n    Posted by: &#8220;[name removed]&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Wake me when he does the whole EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS soundtrack&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Good stuff<\/em>, sez I. And the beat goes on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of our Founding Townspeople migrated to this Rock Town Hall blog from our humble, spirited origins as a Yahoo Groups list. Although it&#8217;s no longer well trafficked, the old list is still active. I refer to it as &#8220;The Basement,&#8221; out of respect for our Rupert Pupkin-like origins, while a disgruntled handful of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/boss-cuts-from-the-basement\/' 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":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422"}],"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=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}