{"id":2791,"date":"2010-06-14T23:47:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:47:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-28T17:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T21:49:20","slug":"best-seat-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/best-seat-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Seat in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JzkNdOY03Q4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the best &#8220;seat&#8221; you&#8217;ve ever had for a show?<\/p>\n<p>Mine was probably when <strong>Townsman andyr<\/strong> and I stood a row or two back from the 4-inch &#8220;stage&#8221; that barely held <strong>X<\/strong>, when I saw them play in a dance studio (you know, with mirrors and those stretching bars on the walls) in support of <em>Under the Big Black Sun<\/em>. The band was so energetic, animated, and sexy &#8211; and they were right in our faces. It was like in the movies, yet people in Philly didn&#8217;t do a lot of stupid slam-dancing back then, so I could stand there in my typical arms-folded stance and bob my head in appreciation. It was my first up-close look at what a band&#8217;s onstage dynamic could be, and I&#8217;ve never had a better look at a better dynamic since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the best &#8220;seat&#8221; you&#8217;ve ever had for a show? Mine was probably when Townsman andyr and I stood a row or two back from the 4-inch &#8220;stage&#8221; that barely held X, when I saw them play in a dance studio (you know, with mirrors and those stretching bars on the walls) in support of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/best-seat-in-the-house\/' 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\/2791"}],"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=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}