{"id":9798,"date":"2011-10-25T12:48:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2011-10-25T23:14:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:14:34","slug":"consult-the-orockle-what-is-it-that-is-really-bugging-people-about-u2%e2%80%b2s-rhythm-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/consult-the-orockle-what-is-it-that-is-really-bugging-people-about-u2%e2%80%b2s-rhythm-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Consult the Orockle: What Is It That Is Really Bugging People About U2\u2032s Rhythm Section?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"452\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/orockle400x452.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/orockle400x452.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/orockle400x452.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/orockle400x452.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The wisdom of The Hall continues to amaze me. For as many knowledgeable individuals who dazzle with their rock knowledge, it is the <em>collective<\/em> wisdom of our participants that I find most dazzling.<\/p>\n<p>It is in this spirit that I want to allow for further amazement\u2014not only <em>for<\/em> the people but <em>by<\/em> the people. Rather than turn this into my own original post, maybe even do a few minutes of research on the Web, I thought better of it. Instead, I&#8217;d like to pose a question on behalf of a fellow Townsperson to the collective wisdom of <strong>The Orockle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Townsman\u00a0trigmogigmo<\/strong> has a question he&#8217;d like to pose\u2014and one that he hopes will inspire other questions we&#8217;d like to have asked when we had more time to find the answers ourselves. Read on, please.<!--more-->Said trigmogigmo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019d like to see a related discussion of U2\u2032s rhythm section. I notice Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton receiving some scorn in the Hall. Larry\u2019s drumming has always seemed OK to me. Adam\u2019s bass seems very basic but I can\u2019t put my finger on what it is that is really bugging people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, mighty Orockle, please hear trigmo&#8217;s plea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wisdom of The Hall continues to amaze me. For as many knowledgeable individuals who dazzle with their rock knowledge, it is the collective wisdom of our participants that I find most dazzling. It is in this spirit that I want to allow for further amazement\u2014not only for the people but by the people. Rather <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/consult-the-orockle-what-is-it-that-is-really-bugging-people-about-u2%e2%80%b2s-rhythm-section\/' 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":[146,137,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798"}],"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=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}