{"id":765,"date":"2007-08-06T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:09:21","slug":"great-schticks-that-went-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/great-schticks-that-went-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Schticks That Went Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AwU9CHPHejo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nYesterday I was flipping back and forth between a particularly bad start to a Phillies game (which ended in stunningly successful fashion) and an episode of <em>Austim City Limits<\/em>, featuring <strong>The Polyphonic Spree<\/strong>. My son was as fascinated as I was by the ridiculous be-robed gesticulations of these clowns, yet he couldn&#8217;t quite grasp the majesty of their schtick. &#8220;This is like opera!&#8221; he kept saying. <em>Good boy<\/em>. Some Hispanic rock band followed that also was heavy on multi-instrumental band members and was led by a singer with a screeching voice. &#8220;Does every band on this show have to have a stupid singer?&#8221; my son asked.<\/p>\n<p>Rock &#8216;n roll is rife with highly successful schticks, from Freddy and the Dreamers to Sha Na Na to The Residents to The White Stripes. More power to all these practitioners of rock schtick, I say. But how about the great schticks of rock that pretty much went nowhere? How about <strong>Nash the Slash<\/strong>? I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve got a favorite rock schtick that went nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was flipping back and forth between a particularly bad start to a Phillies game (which ended in stunningly successful fashion) and an episode of Austim City Limits, featuring The Polyphonic Spree. My son was as fascinated as I was by the ridiculous be-robed gesticulations of these clowns, yet he couldn&#8217;t quite grasp the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/great-schticks-that-went-nowhere\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}