{"id":309,"date":"2007-02-23T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T14:06:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-23T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T10:11:53","slug":"quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/quick-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_PH3uwC3oE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>When is the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashmouth.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.smashmouth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Smash Mouth<\/strong><\/a> album due to hit?<\/p>\n<p>How long into the future will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/dailynews\/16764644.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/dailynews\/16764644.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tribute bands<\/strong><\/a> be considered as respectable as classical orchestras?<\/p>\n<p>Musicians, home recorders: If you haven&#8217;t signed up for a free subscription to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapeop.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.tapeop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TapeOp<\/a><\/strong> yet you&#8217;re either unaware of the magazine&#8217;s existence or out of your mind!<\/p>\n<p>Interesting piece on the legendary &#8220;Mr. Bojangles&#8221; over at our friend Rodney Anonymous&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodneyanonymous.com\/2007\/02\/the_bojangles_diaries.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rodneyanonymous.com\/2007\/02\/the_bojangles_diaries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thoughtless for the Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Does the name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breathingprotection.com\/dave_fridmann.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.breathingprotection.com\/dave_fridmann.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>David Fridmann<\/em><\/a> in an album&#8217;s production credits excite you or cause you some anxiety? I&#8217;m beginning to think he&#8217;s the new <strong>Mitchell Froom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Including her work in <em>Viva Las Vegas<\/em>, <em>Tommy<\/em>, and these scintillating performance clips with <strong>Tina Turner<\/strong>, was <strong>Ann-Margaret<\/strong> rock&#8217;s greatest add-on celebrity of her time?<\/p>\n<p>Who made the best &#8220;poutfta&#8221; pop of the &#8217;80s: Culture Club, Wham!\/George Michael solo, or Style Council? I&#8217;m voting for <strong>George Michael<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is the next Smash Mouth album due to hit? How long into the future will tribute bands be considered as respectable as classical orchestras? Musicians, home recorders: If you haven&#8217;t signed up for a free subscription to TapeOp yet you&#8217;re either unaware of the magazine&#8217;s existence or out of your mind! Interesting piece on <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/quick-hits\/' 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\/309"}],"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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}