{"id":2904,"date":"2010-08-18T19:31:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T23:31:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:16:34","slug":"hey-e-pluribus-gergley-why-exactly-is-it-wrong-for-people-to-recreate-music-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hey-e-pluribus-gergley-why-exactly-is-it-wrong-for-people-to-recreate-music-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, E. Pluribus Gergley!  Why Exactly Is It Wrong for People to Recreate Music Like This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/op3vUpWIANA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Hey, Gergley!<\/p>\n<p>Mockcarr and I are about to form our umpteenth band together, in which we&#8217;re planning to focus on simple 60s beat music.  One of the finalists for the set list is &#8220;Come On,&#8221; by Australian combo <strong>The Atlantics<\/strong>.  I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d be appalled that men of such exquisite taste would dare attempt to recreate something that veers so closely to the &#8220;garage&#8221; flavor.  But that just begs the question:  why exactly is it bad form for old geezers to play music like this?  And a corollary question is:  what forms of rock are okay &#8212; or decidedly not okay &#8212; for geezers to play in public?<\/p>\n<p>I really want to know!<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Gergley! Mockcarr and I are about to form our umpteenth band together, in which we&#8217;re planning to focus on simple 60s beat music. One of the finalists for the set list is &#8220;Come On,&#8221; by Australian combo The Atlantics. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d be appalled that men of such exquisite taste would dare attempt to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hey-e-pluribus-gergley-why-exactly-is-it-wrong-for-people-to-recreate-music-like-this\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[271,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}