{"id":6288,"date":"2011-03-15T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2011-03-15T16:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T20:39:01","slug":"hvb-meets-one-of-his-heros-but-who-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hvb-meets-one-of-his-heros-but-who-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"HVB Meets One Of His Heroes… But Who Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HVB meets one of his heroes!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The only band photo known to exist<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey, gang!<\/p>\n

So I just got back from SXSW\u2014the “interactive” one, not the music one.\u00a0While I was there, I stopped off at a trailer selling Thai food.\u00a0I noticed a promo shot on the wall from one of my all-time favorite bands, and I said to the gentleman manning the trailer that I was a huge fan.\u00a0He immediately extended his hand, said he’d been waiting for years for somebody to recognize the group, and introduced himself as (DELETED), the band’s bass player.\u00a0He then gave me a plate of free food, offered me a pile of free band swag if I came back the next day, and then came out from the trailer to explain the real history of the band.<\/p>\n

Now, the reason I can’t tell you who this guy is is because this particular band<\/em> jealously guards its secret identity, and its reputation as a freaked out country-punk cult phenomenon.\u00a0I promised “Mr. X,” the bassist (not his real, nor his stage name) that I would keep his current whereabouts, and the history he shared with me, a secret.\u00a0I will tell you that I was astonished to learn that many of the band members were actually former members of some very prominent SoCal musical outfits of the ’60s and ’70s, including one featured very recently in an RTH thread.\u00a0If you knew this band’s music like I know it, you’d be as shocked as I was.<\/p>\n

I realize all this may be too cryptic for RTH relevancy, but I feel compelled to share.\u00a0I swear I’m not bullshitting, and Townsman mockcarr<\/strong> (whom I couldn’t help but call in my giddy excitement after Mr. X and I had our lengthy chat, and to whom I spilled the beans) will back me up on that.\u00a0I’m posting the photo to prove the encounter really happened, and to give everybody but<\/em> mockcarr the opportunity to guess this man’s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, gang! So I just got back from SXSW\u2014the “interactive” one, not the music one.\u00a0While I was there, I stopped off at a trailer selling Thai food.\u00a0I noticed a promo shot on the wall from one of my all-time favorite bands, and I said to the gentleman manning the trailer that I was a huge […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}