{"id":820,"date":"2007-08-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T12:19:37","slug":"rock-meccas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-meccas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Meccas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hd-TuoZhM4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodtoday.net\/?p=1674\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodtoday.net\/?p=1674\">this<\/a> article about how someone has purchased Elvis Presley&#8217;s former part-time home in Palm Springs and intends on turning it into a tourist attraction. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from wondering why someone hasn&#8217;t already exploited this property, I got to thinking about Rock Meccas.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been to two, sort of.  I went to Graceland but didn&#8217;t go in.  I mainly went for the gift store and purchased Elvis brand sunscreen a pair of Elvis nail clippers.  I went to the Graceland site to find images of these but alas they were not there.  But I did find:<\/p>\n<p>The Elvis TV Tray which I would totally buy:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/elvistvtray.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And the Elvis Jailhouse Rock Cotton Ball Holder which I totally wouldn&#8217;t buy:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/elviscotton.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I had intended on going into Graceland but was high and got bummed out by how many people were there on some sort of warped religious pilgrimage (though I suppose no more warped than any other religious pilgrimage.)<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qomBWvdu_lo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAlso, when in Paris many years ago we went to Pere Lachaise, not only to see Morrison&#8217;s grave but others (especially George Melies and Oscar Wilde). There was tons of graffiti and dudes smoking weed and empty beer cans&#8230;  It actually seemed sort of ridiculous.  The cemetery was beautiful but these pilgrims were one beer-bong away from breaking on thru to the restroom to refund their Le Big Macs.<\/p>\n<p>I think a Beatles tour in England would be interesting but I wouldn&#8217;t make a pilgrimage per se.  Joshua Tree is pretty close and though I have no desire to stay in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuatreeinn.com\/gram.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.joshuatreeinn.com\/gram.html\">room<\/a> that Gram Parsons died in, I think there is some sort of rock creation or something that marks the place where his body was burned.  That might be interesting.  Joshua Tree is a pretty cool place.<\/p>\n<p>So, I wonder, have you ever visited a Rock Mecca?  Was it a pilgrimage or a side-trip?  Did you have a spiritual experience or did a bunch of lame-o&#8217;s bum the scene?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this article about how someone has purchased Elvis Presley&#8217;s former part-time home in Palm Springs and intends on turning it into a tourist attraction. Aside from wondering why someone hasn&#8217;t already exploited this property, I got to thinking about Rock Meccas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}