{"id":2974,"date":"2010-09-27T22:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T02:32:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T18:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:35:45","slug":"battle-royale-least-talented-band-to-ever-make-it-on-national-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-least-talented-band-to-ever-make-it-on-national-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Least-Talented Band to Ever Make it on National Television?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YvGrF_phtxI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Excluding talent-show performers, has any band been less talented than <strong>The Starvation Army Corps Band<\/strong>, as seen in this 1968 <em>Mike Douglas Show<\/em> appearance? I&#8217;m not talking about bands that are aesthetically not my cup of tea, like <strong>Journey<\/strong>, or producer-created bands that &#8220;fit the costume&#8221; and lip-sync, but bands that display such humble musical ability as this band of 15 and 16 year olds. From their introduction I gather that The Salvation Army Corps Band made it to national television as a cutesy favor to Mike&#8217;s guest, but who the guest is and why her son&#8217;s band merited inclusion on the broadcast are mysteries to me.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there&#8217;s no mistaking what led the following contender in this <strong>Battle Royale<\/strong> to its national television booking:<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hg77gp57BAQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nSo let&#8217;s have it: <em>Excluding talent-show losers and phony <strong>Johnny Bravo<\/strong> types, what&#8217;s the least-talented band to ever make it on national television?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first showdown is between The Starvation Army Corps Band and <strong>The Plasmatics<\/strong>. The &#8220;winner&#8221; of this match-up will take on all-comers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excluding talent-show performers, has any band been less talented than The Starvation Army Corps Band, as seen in this 1968 Mike Douglas Show appearance? I&#8217;m not talking about bands that are aesthetically not my cup of tea, like Journey, or producer-created bands that &#8220;fit the costume&#8221; and lip-sync, but bands that display such humble musical <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-least-talented-band-to-ever-make-it-on-national-television\/' 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":[42,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974"}],"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=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}