{"id":967,"date":"2008-09-26T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-25T23:18:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T23:18:55","slug":"bands-you-don-t-really-like-that-neverth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bands-you-don-t-really-like-that-neverth\/","title":{"rendered":"<font color=\"orange\">FRIDAY<\/font> <font color=\"yellow\">FLASHBACK!<\/font> Bands You Don&#8217;t Really Like That Nevertheless Promise Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" width=\"425\" height=\"150\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><em>This old post never got as much play as I&#8217;d hoped. Perhaps people were simply turned off by my use of Jethro Tull as an example. As we revisit this topic, perhaps it will be helpful to think of what I&#8217;m getting at as a form of trash picking. There can be beauty in understandably discarded bands. There may be something to learn. See if this makes any sense a second time around. See if you haven&#8217;t identified the promise of greatness in a band or artist you don&#8217;t really like.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code>This post initially appeared 11\/3\/07.<\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZD6D5vH8WE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe title of this entry about says it all. Here&#8217;s my example: I&#8217;ve always dug enough elements in <strong>Jethro Tull<\/strong> to think that they could be great&#8230;if only they didn&#8217;t go <em>so wrong<\/em> in a few key areas. If you could salvage all the good parts of Jethro Tull, I think, and start fresh, leaving out the bad bits, you&#8217;d have a very cool band. Do you have a band or artist you feel that way about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This old post never got as much play as I&#8217;d hoped. Perhaps people were simply turned off by my use of Jethro Tull as an example. As we revisit this topic, perhaps it will be helpful to think of what I&#8217;m getting at as a form of trash picking. There can be beauty in understandably <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bands-you-don-t-really-like-that-neverth\/' 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\/967"}],"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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}