{"id":2593,"date":"2010-03-01T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-07T22:40:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T02:40:04","slug":"beatles-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/beatles-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BvZwgPCfTcQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never seen Paul McCartney&#8217;s vanity film <em>Give My Regards to Broad Street<\/em>, not a lick of it if you don&#8217;t count any segments that were broadcast on MTV in the day as his video single. From the little I&#8217;ve seen on YouTube this morning and the little I&#8217;ve read about it &#8211; hell, from nothing more than still photographs from the shoot &#8211; I&#8217;m thankful for not having seen it. Although the video clip that kicks off this thread is of a surprisingly half-decent song (and features friend of Rock Town Hall <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/don_t_call_it_rockabilly_rth_interviews_\">Chris Spedding<\/a><\/strong> front and center), I suspect this film would be included in the <strong>Great Beatles Refuse Removal Truck<\/strong> that&#8217;s coming to your town.<\/p>\n<p>Simple question: <em>What Beatles-related debris would you chuck once and for all?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/psychdump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/psychdump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Specific songs you don&#8217;t like, be it &#8220;Maxwell&#8217;s Silver Hammer&#8221; or &#8220;She&#8217;s a Woman,&#8221; will not be accepted. Nor will blanket tosses, such as the entire solo career of your least-favorite solo Beatle. This psychedelic dumptruck is looking to collect the offshoot stuff, the vanity projects and collectibles, that are truly not necessary and that will possibly threaten the band&#8217;s legacy &#8211; and your own rock nerd reputation &#8211; through this millenium. For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/musicianbiographies.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/review_of_george_harrisons_i_me_mine\" target=\"_blank\">George&#8217;s limited-edition autobiography, <em>I Me Mine<\/em><\/a>, may be another example of Beatles debris that&#8217;s ready to be tossed, but I wouldn&#8217;t know, because I wasn&#8217;t one of the <del>suckers<\/del> lucky 2000 to pay some exorbitant price for this tome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen Paul McCartney&#8217;s vanity film Give My Regards to Broad Street, not a lick of it if you don&#8217;t count any segments that were broadcast on MTV in the day as his video single. From the little I&#8217;ve seen on YouTube this morning and the little I&#8217;ve read about it &#8211; hell, from <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/beatles-debris\/' 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":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593"}],"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=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}