A few random observations from today:<\/p>\n
1. \u00a0A friend posted a couple videos of Sir Douglas Quintet<\/strong>. \u00a0I never had heard of this band, and doing some research was amazed that a band that allegedly “started” by trying to cash in on the 60’s British Invasion could ultimately morph into a prime inspiration for Tejano music. \u00a0Although Doug Sahm’s Texas roots are apparent even when Elvis Costello-like organ is added to the mix, I was impressed with his ability to leap musical genres.<\/p>\n 2. \u00a0Manohla Dargis’ April 8, 2011 New York Times review of the new stoner movie “Your Highness” included this musical reference:<\/p>\n “bare-breasted wild women smeared in white who look as if they stepped off the cover of a classic punk album by the Slits…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I don’t know about you, but a reference for The Slits in the midst of a NYTimes movie review seems a bit random.<\/p>\n 3. \u00a0An article on today’s Pitchfork site, “Positive Destruction,”<\/a> posits San Francisco as the new epicenter of garage rock. \u00a0Mr. Royale and I are fans of Ty Segall and recently discovered another local band, Moon Duo. \u00a0 It would be nice for San Francisco to move beyond that “Summer of ’69” designation.<\/p>\n Comments? Have you discovered any other odd little trends or artifacts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few random observations from today: 1. \u00a0A friend posted a couple videos of Sir Douglas Quintet. \u00a0I never had heard of this band, and doing some research was amazed that a band that allegedly “started” by trying to cash in on the 60’s British Invasion could ultimately morph into a prime inspiration for Tejano […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756"}],"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=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}