{"id":7578,"date":"2011-06-11T23:44:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7578"},"modified":"2011-06-11T23:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:44:38","slug":"will-this-get-me-kicked-out-of-the-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/will-this-get-me-kicked-out-of-the-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Will this get me kicked out of the Hall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EqP3wT5lpa4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Following up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/bullshit-on-phil-spector\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent\u00a0<strong>Phil Spector<\/strong> thread<\/a>&#8230; I will posit this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instant Karma&#8221; is TOTALLY overrated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reasons: the drum sound is horrible and sloppy, like they couldn&#8217;t get drums but decided to bang on big cardboard boxes. Lennon&#8217;s Elvis-like singing, which is a big smirk. The lame piano playing, as if <strong>Billy Preston<\/strong> forgot the soul that made him Billy Preston. Harrison on guitar? Is the guitar plugged in? And the overall production and playing is sloppy &#8212; it sounds like a demo, and not a demo tinged with wonder (The Modern Lovers come to mind) but a demo they were obviously too high to do another take on. You can actually hear them lagging behind and trying to catch up. And did I mention the drumming, which has some of the worst &#8212; THE WORST &#8212; fills in the known musical world.<\/p>\n<p>I know the whole &#8220;written for breakfast, put out for dinner&#8221; mystique &#8212; but it&#8217;s bad. And don&#8217;t get me started on the song itself: bumper sticker lyrics with no melody. The song goes nowhere except to get to the big chorus &#8212; oh wow, the manager is singing along too. And the hand claps &#8212; the lame hand claps.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone but Lennon had put this out, it would never have seen the light of day. It&#8217;s trite &#8217;70s coked-up crap.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you and goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the recent\u00a0Phil Spector thread&#8230; I will posit this: Instant Karma&#8221; is TOTALLY overrated. The reasons: the drum sound is horrible and sloppy, like they couldn&#8217;t get drums but decided to bang on big cardboard boxes. Lennon&#8217;s Elvis-like singing, which is a big smirk. The lame piano playing, as if Billy Preston forgot <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/will-this-get-me-kicked-out-of-the-hall\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[87,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}