{"id":596,"date":"2007-05-29T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T02:20:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-17T21:50:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:50:25","slug":"title-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/title-21\/","title":{"rendered":"An English Rocker in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-GUyUwI-9kM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><strong>Townsman Shawnkilroy brought forth the following topic he&#8217;d like to see hashed out in the Halls of Rock:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How about a discussion of the effects of L.A. on English people. Like The Moody Blues, LED ZEP, Billy Idol, etc. I&#8217;m sure there are more good examples, but you notice how awful it makes them. Like <strong>Golum&#8217;s precious<\/strong>, it gives &#8217;em something, but it kinda takes something away too!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m game! To add to that list, there&#8217;s <strong>Steve Jones<\/strong> of the Sex Pistols, although perhaps all those &#8220;nothing from nothing&#8221;-type quotes in rock might apply there. <strong>Graham Nash*<\/strong> is worth studying as well. And not exactly rock, but hasn&#8217;t <strong>Eric Idle<\/strong> settled into an LA groove over the years? There&#8217;s something about aging British rockers with sagging skin, awkward tans, and bleach blond hair that stick in my mind. Add a blond mustache for added West Coast vibes.<\/p>\n<p><small>*A couple of notes about this video: 1) Townsman Chickenfrank, dig the &#8220;H&#8221; note Nash sings with 34 seconds left. 2) Townsman Epluribus, with 28 seconds left, there&#8217;s a key moment that I hope you will appreciate and recognize for what it is.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman Shawnkilroy brought forth the following topic he&#8217;d like to see hashed out in the Halls of Rock: How about a discussion of the effects of L.A. on English people. Like The Moody Blues, LED ZEP, Billy Idol, etc. I&#8217;m sure there are more good examples, but you notice how awful it makes them. Like <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/title-21\/' 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":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}