{"id":4836,"date":"2010-12-15T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2010-12-15T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:19:10","slug":"fast-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fast-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gwRlGma8Fjs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Last night, Mr. Royale and I went to see Australian band <strong>Tame Impala<\/strong> perform at a small club here in San Francisco. They focused on their 2010 album, <em>Innerspeaker<\/em>, which could probably be safely be described as &#8220;retro&#8221; a la 1967. The show was all out psychedelia: barefoot musicians, long-neglected hair, oscilloscope images morphing in time with the chords, large amounts of medicinal herb wafting around us. And Tame Impala are clearly old-school in their influences: Wikipedia lists, among them, Cream, Love, Blue Cheer, CSNY, Steppenwolf, Jefferson Airplane. So when it came time for the encores, I was expecting something in a similar vein. Instead, as the distinct bass line and rim shots were painted in, we got an amazing, full court press cover of <strong>Massive Attack<\/strong>&#8216;s 1997<em>, <\/em>&#8220;Angel.&#8221; It was followed by another cover, which neither of us initially identified, but with a little research found to be <strong>Blue Boy<\/strong>&#8216;s 1998 dance hit, &#8220;Remember Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to encores or other performed covers being used to cite PREVIOUS musical influences: for example I can recall <strong>Grizzly Bear<\/strong> doing a cover of the 1962 Spector song, &#8220;He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss).&#8221;<em> <\/em>So what was with Tame Impala fast-forwarding 30 years to reference a more recent musical genre (although &#8220;trip-hop,&#8221; which could be seen as a bastard child of the earlier psychedelia, and <em>&#8220;<\/em>Remember Me&#8221;<em> <\/em>samples a &#8217;60s single by <strong>Marlena Shaw<\/strong>)?<\/p>\n<p>Have you had an experience of an unexpected encore? Did it make you change your mind about the band, for better or for worse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Mr. Royale and I went to see Australian band Tame Impala perform at a small club here in San Francisco. They focused on their 2010 album, Innerspeaker, which could probably be safely be described as &#8220;retro&#8221; a la 1967. The show was all out psychedelia: barefoot musicians, long-neglected hair, oscilloscope images morphing in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fast-forward\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[24,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}