{"id":977,"date":"2007-11-09T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-11T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T19:33:54","slug":"video-battle-royale-best-rock-band-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/video-battle-royale-best-rock-band-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Battle Royale:  Best Rock Band Guest Performance in a Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the &#8220;rock musical&#8221; thread was a Very Sad Thing indeed.  This next <strong>video treasure hunt<\/strong> gives us ample opportunity to make us feel a whole lot better about the intersection of music and showbiz.  What I&#8217;m looking for is the <strong>best performance<\/strong> &#8212; real or lip-synch&#8217;ed, actual YouTube links are appreciated &#8212; in a dramatic motion picture, in a &#8220;supporting role.&#8221;  There are some ground rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No clips from movies about the featured band<\/li>\n<li>No clips from musicals or concert films<\/li>\n<li>No clips from artists or bands who were responsible for writing\/directing\/producing\/making the movie in any way<\/li>\n<li>No fake bands &#8212; though the band can be named facetiously in the script, it has to be a real rock combo, in real or faux performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this is clear enough.  If it isn&#8217;t, consider The Yardbirds&#8217; performance in <em>Blowup<\/em> &#8212; or, better yet, consider The Chocolate Watchband in <em>Riot On Sunset Strip<\/em>:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wKywLOiQi0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p>p.s.: <em>Mad Props<\/em> to Collin Wade Monk, Nashville scenester, rocker, and RTH lurker, for pointing me in the direction of this excellent clip. Hear Collin spiel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/Stories\/Arts\/Music\/SceneCast\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/Stories\/Arts\/Music\/SceneCast\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/Stories\/Arts\/Music\/SceneCast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the &#8220;rock musical&#8221; thread was a Very Sad Thing indeed. This next video treasure hunt gives us ample opportunity to make us feel a whole lot better about the intersection of music and showbiz. What I&#8217;m looking for is the best performance &#8212; real or lip-synch&#8217;ed, actual YouTube links are appreciated &#8212; in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/video-battle-royale-best-rock-band-guest\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/977"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}