{"id":8463,"date":"2011-07-28T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2011-07-28T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:33:25","slug":"jack-white-throwback-or-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jack-white-throwback-or-visionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White: Throwback or Visionary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6j7huh5Egew?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Super-busy day ahead, but in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/all-star-jam-153\/#comment-58871\" target=\"_blank\">a little side discussion<\/a> I&#8217;m having with <strong>Townsman Oats<\/strong> in this week&#8217;s <em>All-Star <\/em>Jam regarding a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/simon-reynolds,59501\/\" target=\"_blank\">new book by and interview with\u00a0<strong>Simon Reynolds<\/strong><\/a>, he takes the following shot, which is too good not to bring to <strong>The Main Stage<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One key point from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/review\/lets_do_the_time_warp_again.php?page=all\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Noel Murray<\/strong>\u2019s rebuttal<\/a>: Reynolds may regard <strong>Jack White<\/strong> as some sort of analog purist poseur, but the majority of earthlings who rock out to \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d don\u2019t consider it a throwback. It\u2019s considered a key rock song of the \u201900s. No one hears that song and thinks back to 1971, except maybe some sticks in the mud who may comment on a rock blog;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To my ears, putting aside the issue of the nonexistent bass, <strong>White Stripes<\/strong> couldn&#8217;t have been a more fan-friendly throwback unless he&#8217;d been backed by the <strong>Delaware Destroyers<\/strong>. Does Oats and the &#8220;majority of earthlings&#8221; who constitute His Generation actually hear the music of White Stripes as &#8220;visionary?&#8221; Where do you fall on the issue of <em>Jack White: Throwback or Visionary?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your comments\u2014and members of the Bad Attitude Club can check their bad attitude at the door!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super-busy day ahead, but in a little side discussion I&#8217;m having with Townsman Oats in this week&#8217;s All-Star Jam regarding a new book by and interview with\u00a0Simon Reynolds, he takes the following shot, which is too good not to bring to The Main Stage: One key point from Noel Murray\u2019s rebuttal: Reynolds may regard Jack <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jack-white-throwback-or-visionary\/' 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":[7,231,347,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463"}],"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=8463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}