{"id":329,"date":"2007-03-01T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-18T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:05:27","slug":"mr-clean-discusses-the-function-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mr-clean-discusses-the-function-of-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Clean Discusses the Function of Humor in The Dead Milkmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0hQQ_wA0HxE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe humor in the <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.deadmilkmen.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmilkmen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dead Milkmen<\/a><\/strong> music wasn&#8217;t labored. It was a natural expression of our selves. I think we often talked about serious issues but tempered the delivery with humor &#8211; if only to prevent us from getting weighed down with the shit that was going on. We also thought the <strong>hardcore punk scene<\/strong> that we began playing shows in took themselves way too seriously. Our attitude was that this all should be fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodney<\/strong> is one of the funniest and smartest persons I know. He can think fast on his feet and he still cracks me up!<\/p>\n<p>I think humor brings people together, and by having a sense of humor we were able to bring the crowd to us more. Some bands cultivate the em&gt;&#8221;we&#8217;re special up here &#8211; keep your distance&#8221; vibe. We were trying to get to know the local crowd. After all &#8211; wasn&#8217;t the &#8220;punk ethos&#8221; something like, &#8220;Everyone can do it! Anyone can be in a band!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside &#8211; one of the items on our &#8220;rider&#8221; was a <strong>local newspaper<\/strong>. This provided a little local information sometimes that we could play off of on stage.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Now, enjoy a whole mess of Dead Milkmen videos <a title=\"http:\/\/www.deadmilkmen.com\/videos\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmilkmen.com\/videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humor in the Dead Milkmen music wasn&#8217;t labored. It was a natural expression of our selves. I think we often talked about serious issues but tempered the delivery with humor &#8211; if only to prevent us from getting weighed down with the shit that was going on. We also thought the hardcore punk scene <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mr-clean-discusses-the-function-of-humor\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[28,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}