{"id":3653,"date":"2010-10-25T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2010-10-25T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:06:19","slug":"battle-royale-understandably-self-absorbed-musicians-listening-to-a-playback-of-their-latest-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-understandably-self-absorbed-musicians-listening-to-a-playback-of-their-latest-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Understandably Self-Absorbed Musicians Listening to a Playback of Their Latest Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g69labQKuuU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I was never a fan of the Rolling Stones&#8217; documentary\u00a0<em>Gimme Shelter<\/em>, but I forgot how gripping and realistic this scene of understandably self-absorbed musicians listening to a playback of their latest recording was. There may be no better scene of this sort captured on film or video\u2014or at least that&#8217;s the claim this scene is making as it shuffles triumphantly around the squared circle, arms raised, proclaiming inevitable victory before the bell has rung on this <strong>Battle Royale<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a studio playback scene to top this one? It can be from a real rock film, a fictional one, or even your own experience. All challengers for the belt will be judged on soulful gazes, knowing nods, off-mic banter, cans, artful couch slouches, wise producers\/engineers, gear porn, cool observers, band members singing or air-playing along to the music, studio tans, tracking beards, Oriental rugs, and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was never a fan of the Rolling Stones&#8217; documentary\u00a0Gimme Shelter, but I forgot how gripping and realistic this scene of understandably self-absorbed musicians listening to a playback of their latest recording was. There may be no better scene of this sort captured on film or video\u2014or at least that&#8217;s the claim this scene is <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-understandably-self-absorbed-musicians-listening-to-a-playback-of-their-latest-recording\/' 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":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653"}],"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=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}