{"id":7680,"date":"2011-06-21T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2011-06-19T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T03:10:05","slug":"rock-and-roll-travers-ty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-and-roll-travers-ty\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll Travers-ty"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bZTSUt84YA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I\u2019m far from a <strong>Pat Travers<\/strong> fan, but I really dig his live version of &#8220;Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights).&#8221; It\u2019s from <em>Live! Go for What You Know<\/em>. Real catchy title, right? It\u2019s an average blues boogie that 1,000 other bands probably play, or there are 1,000 similar songs you could play instead. Their version is kind of sludgy and proggy, so there isn\u2019t a lot going for it yet. Regardless, when this live version came out in 1979, I found it a huge FM radio treat. I really enjoy how well the audience holds up their end. I love how each time Pat hits the payoff line <em>Boom Boom<\/em>, he guides the crowd with a \u201cright here,\u201d \u201cwhat is it?\u201d and\u00a0 the audience hits it mark perfectly with a clear and clean \u201cOut go the lights!\u201d Maybe they all got together beforehand to practice. I asked the audience if they had room for another member, but they never got back to me.<\/p>\n<p><em>What other songs come to mind where the live version is far superior to the studio version? Any others where the crowd energy or participation gets a big part of the credit?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m far from a Pat Travers fan, but I really dig his live version of &#8220;Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights).&#8221; It\u2019s from Live! Go for What You Know. Real catchy title, right? It\u2019s an average blues boogie that 1,000 other bands probably play, or there are 1,000 similar songs you could play instead. Their <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-and-roll-travers-ty\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680"}],"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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}