{"id":884,"date":"2007-09-25T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-25T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T09:46:37","slug":"please-let-there-be-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-let-there-be-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Please&#8230;Let There Be Rock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Townsman Saturnismine<\/strong> briefly interrupted his baseball dreams to ask the following of us:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>RTHers, I have been in the clubs, where the few in attendance gawk amazed at half-hearted post-rock pedal hopping. I have been to the record stores, where artfully designed cover art and requisite <strong>Look<\/strong> continue to scam the impressionable to empty their pockets. I have been to the Nether-regions of <strong>hipster cyberspace<\/strong>, where the soul-less look to their shoes with woeful, soul-less gazes.  <\/p>\n<p>And on this clear, cloudless day, <strong>I implore you<\/strong>: the world of rock needs US to put down all our worldly, reverent talk of jazz, Beatle covers, and &#8220;true German stereo,&#8221; regardless of the merits of such talk. It is a time to strip away all ponderings and embrace simplicity. It is a time to <strong>TAKE UP CHILDISH THINGS<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>First, <em>I want to know if what you&#8217;re about to watch is even possible in 2007<\/em>.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNwN3rSrvaE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Feel better? I thought you might. I also want to know what songs clean YOUR cobwebs by getting back to what matters most. These songs must be hard hitting, fun, dumb, maybe even RAUNCHY &#8211; and profound in their simplicity: no esoteric cobweb cleanings, please. I want <strong>viscera<\/strong>. <strong>Townsman HVB<\/strong>, I especially<br \/>\nhope to connect with you on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman Saturnismine briefly interrupted his baseball dreams to ask the following of us: RTHers, I have been in the clubs, where the few in attendance gawk amazed at half-hearted post-rock pedal hopping. I have been to the record stores, where artfully designed cover art and requisite Look continue to scam the impressionable to empty their <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-let-there-be-rock\/' 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\/884"}],"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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}