{"id":2767,"date":"2010-06-01T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-01T22:55:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T22:55:11","slug":"coming-thursday-my-first-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/coming-thursday-my-first-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"COMING THURSDAY: My First Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/cassette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/cassette.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">This could be your first demo tape!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The long-awaited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rth-search-my-first-demo\" target=_blank>Rock Town Hall Talent(less) Search: My First Demo<\/a> will launch this <strong>Thursday, June 3<\/strong>! Townspeople and Friends of the Hall (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wow_that_s_martin_newell_in_the_halls_of\" target=_blank>Martin Newell<\/a>, Big Dipper&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/big_dipper_waleik\" target=_blank>Gary Waleik<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/ben-vaughn-combo-s-gus-cordovox-demonstr\" target=_blank>Ben Vaughn<\/a>) have contributed a total of 17 demos (and 1 live track) from their young and innocent days of attempting to change the way we listen to music, or at least of attempting to justify their increasingly wandering attention in school and\/or at their day job. Now, in as many as 36 years later, perhaps these artists will do just that!<\/p>\n<p>With some suggested criteria, Townspeople will be invited to comment on these early works. It is likely that discussions will take unexpected turns. Prizes will be awarded, long-lost bandmates will be reconnected, we will all feel&#8230;<em>something<\/em> more deeply about the music-making experience. At the appropriate time the artists can choose to provide additional background on the making of their tracks.<\/p>\n<p>A few days of shame, laughter, self-awareness, and (most importantly) <em>healing<\/em> are in store. If you&#8217;re as excited as we are, check back throughout the week. Notify your friends, especially friends in the music industry. Who knows, somebody just may get discovered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be your first demo tape! The long-awaited Rock Town Hall Talent(less) Search: My First Demo will launch this Thursday, June 3! Townspeople and Friends of the Hall (Martin Newell, Big Dipper&#8217;s Gary Waleik, and Ben Vaughn) have contributed a total of 17 demos (and 1 live track) from their young and innocent days <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/coming-thursday-my-first-demo\/' 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":[],"tags":[235,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767"}],"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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}