{"id":8218,"date":"2011-07-29T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2011-07-30T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T17:42:04","slug":"rock-town-hall-creates-the-zardoz-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-creates-the-zardoz-of-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall Creates the Zardoz<\/em> of Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let it Rock!<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe this has happened already in the history of rock, but if not, can Rock Town Hall collectively design the Zardoz<\/strong><\/a><\/em> of rock?<\/p>\n

I know some of you find director\u00a0John Boorman<\/strong>‘s 1974 sci-fi flick starring a ponytailed, Zappata-mustachioed\u00a0Sean Connery<\/strong> running around in a silk diaper\/mankini through a world full of identically built hippie handmaidens wearing loose-fitting halter tops “interesting,” but any time I see this film I’m stunned that a post-Bond Connery would appear in something this, uh, interesting<\/em>. We’re talking the Ultimate James Bond here, so if we can’t find a major band or solo artist coming off their best-known series works to release a ridiculous, futuristic\u00a0concept album, let’s create such a scenario.<\/p>\n

I’m not the world’s greatest fan of The Who<\/strong>‘s Tommy<\/em>, which can be seen as a pretty ridiculous concept, but there’s some great rock ‘n roll on that record. The post-Saturday Night Fever<\/em> Bee Gees<\/strong>‘ doing the Sgt. Pepper<\/em>‘s movie may come close to what I’m looking for, but that debacle was centered around the movie\u2014and even at their commercial peak most of us wouldn’t have expected much more artistically out of the brothers Gibb. Nothing ever released by Styx<\/strong> qualifies. That band blows. I need a post-Bond\u2014level Titan of Rock running around in a musical mankini.<\/p>\n

I look forward to the beast we identify and\/or create.<\/em><\/p>\n

Previously…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe this has happened already in the history of rock, but if not, can Rock Town Hall collectively design the Zardoz of rock? I know some of you find director\u00a0John Boorman‘s 1974 sci-fi flick starring a ponytailed, Zappata-mustachioed\u00a0Sean Connery running around in a silk diaper\/mankini through a world full of identically built hippie handmaidens wearing […]<\/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":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218"}],"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=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}