{"id":9447,"date":"2011-10-07T07:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9447"},"modified":"2011-10-07T07:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:14:25","slug":"oh-the-backup-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-the-backup-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the backup band&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9540\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/oh-the-backup-band\/41qhhztm2rl-_sl500_aa300_\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/41QHHZTM2RL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/41QHHZTM2RL._SL500_AA300_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/41QHHZTM2RL._SL500_AA300_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For someone who was sooo in love with everything <strong>Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions<\/strong>, it&#8217;s amazing I never picked up the solo effort (can it be &#8220;solo&#8221; with three guys?) by the greatest backup band in the world. A high school buddy of mine had it and we derided it\u2014probably without really listening to it with an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>So, besides <strong>The Band<\/strong>, is there a backup outfit that has had any success on their own. Would you buy The Rumour without Graham Parker? The News without Huey? The Heartbreakers without Tom Petty?<\/p>\n<p>And should I give The Attractions&#8217; &#8220;solo&#8221; album\u00a0another chance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who was sooo in love with everything Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions, it&#8217;s amazing I never picked up the solo effort (can it be &#8220;solo&#8221; with three guys?) by the greatest backup band in the world. A high school buddy of mine had it and we derided it\u2014probably without really listening to it <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-the-backup-band\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[10,237,100,287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}