{"id":2854,"date":"2010-08-01T01:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:39:08","slug":"rock-s-failed-theatrical-devices-mime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-failed-theatrical-devices-mime\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock&#8217;s Failed Theatrical Devices: Mime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/i-have-never-felt-so-conflicted-in-all-my-rock-life\" target=\"_blank\">this disturbing find from hrrundivbakshi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out <strong>The Hello People<\/strong> were not the only band employing the use of mime in rock &#8216;n roll. If you&#8217;re a regular to the Halls of Rock, I&#8217;m sure you know about <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>&#8216;s formal mime training. You&#8217;ve probably seen this clip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiKWEf2luMY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nA young David Jones, miming his way to Bowie.<\/p>\n<p>Or one of these.<br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87H4fjZzt7c?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nMime from Mars.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcGA3B42vkE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe boy can&#8217;t help it.<\/p>\n<p>When Bowie&#8217;s efforts to bring mime to the mainstream failed, he turned to puppetry.<!--nextpage--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtTnYlEEb50?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I never put that much personal stock in anything Bowie&#8217;s done, but recently I came across this clip of <strong>The Pretty Things<\/strong> lip-synching one of my favorite songs from <em>S.F. Sorrow<\/em>, the proto-Jethro Tull number, &#8220;Private Sorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TRnvn0_L1FI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the legendary English psych drummer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twink_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twink<\/strong><\/a>, of <strong>Tomorrow<\/strong> and, later, <strong>Pink Fairies<\/strong> fame  miming the part of Private Sorrow. He joined The Pretty Things between these two bands. I had no idea, until now, that he brought mime chops to the band along with his drum sticks. Too bad. This mime routine may forever cure me of my attraction to this song&#8217;s charms. With his curly locks and screen presence, however, Twink would be more successful in setting the stage for the <strong>top hat<\/strong> in rock.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u5M1CUskqHM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-failed-theatrical-devices-mime\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-failed-theatrical-devices-mime\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-failed-theatrical-devices-mime\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall this disturbing find from hrrundivbakshi. It turns out The Hello People were not the only band employing the use of mime in rock &#8216;n roll. If you&#8217;re a regular to the Halls of Rock, I&#8217;m sure you know about David Bowie&#8216;s formal mime training. You&#8217;ve probably seen this clip. A young David <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-failed-theatrical-devices-mime\/' 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":[300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854"}],"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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}