{"id":9169,"date":"2011-09-10T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2011-09-14T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T04:00:58","slug":"the-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The The"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9177\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9177\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9177\" title=\"Pink-Floyd-Poster-786351\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pink-Floyd-Poster-786351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pink-Floyd-Poster-786351.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pink-Floyd-Poster-786351-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink Floyd: The &quot;The&quot; Years<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kills.  The Killers.  The Liars.  The White Stripes.  The Hives.  The Ravonettes.  The Black Keys.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Royale and I have noticed that many of the new garage-y bands have affixed a &#8220;The&#8221; to the start of their name.  It seems to be a nod to some previous rock era (&#8217;50s\u201360s) when band names began with &#8220;The.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then there is another retro era (late-&#8217;60s\u2013&#8217;70s?) when bands started to dispense with &#8220;The&#8221; as a start to their name.  Cream.  Fleetwood Mac.  Procol Harem.  Iron Butterfly.  Love.  Pink Floyd.  Steppenwolf.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to take away the &#8220;The?&#8221; And how radical was that?  Am I missing something here or was there a paradigm shift?  Who was the first band to go it alone and ditch the &#8220;The?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the musicians among us, how did you decide whether to append the &#8220;The?&#8221; Was it a way to create a &#8220;look&#8221; or signifier to a previous rock era?  A friend who was in a pseudo-well-known band in the &#8217;90s shared that it was very important that the &#8220;The&#8221; not be attached to the start of their name.  Ditto Pixies, Talking Heads, et al.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are the bands whose names start with Thee&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to The Commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kills. The Killers. The Liars. The White Stripes. The Hives. The Ravonettes. The Black Keys. Mr. Royale and I have noticed that many of the new garage-y bands have affixed a &#8220;The&#8221; to the start of their name. It seems to be a nod to some previous rock era (&#8217;50s\u201360s) when band names began <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-the\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"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\/9169"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}