{"id":195,"date":"2006-03-16T02:48:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/16\/gonna-try-to-withhold-judgement\/"},"modified":"2006-03-15T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T03:21:05","slug":"gonna-try-to-withhold-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"gonna try to withhold judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=195\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\">Billboard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I heard a while back that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elliot_Easton\">Elliot Easton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Hawkes\">Greg Hawkes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Todd_Rundgren\">Todd Rundgren<\/a> were going to tour as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewcars.com\/index.cfm\">The New Cars<\/a>. Having been in Boston during their heyday and interacted a little with them (Ben Orr was a gem, may he rest in peace), the thought of them going out without Rick and Ben was unthinkable. The idea of this band has gotten a lot of heat, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefsetz.com\/\">Bob Lefsez<\/a> and others&#8230; but you know, there are plenty of great musicians from great bands who can play, want to play and have to find a way to get heard as the main pre-pubescent audience sees them as grandparents. Their original constituents also turn their backs, either fixated on the songs of their youth or being too tired to assimilate anything new.<br \/>\nBut here&#8217;s where I went from wanting it to die a fast death to being somewhat intrigued; the bass and drums are being played by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kasiminfo.com\/\">Kasim Sultan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairieprince.com\/\">Prairie Prince<\/a>, previously of Utopia and The Tubes.<br \/>\nThis is close to being a super group of the late 70&#8217;s-early 80&#8217;s; my memories of Utopia and Tubes shows are the only clear ones from that era! It doesn&#8217;t change the fact that if this a cash grab, it&#8217;s still a cash grab. But you know, if you have a skill and need to make a living like the rest of us, go for it. I just hope everyone is putting their all into it. These are talented guys; I hope they do it right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billboard.com\/bbcom\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001525267&#038;imw=Y\">Rundgren Steps In For Ocasek In New Cars<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Billboard: I heard a while back that Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes and Todd Rundgren were going to tour as The New Cars. Having been in Boston during their heyday and interacted a little with them (Ben Orr was a gem, may he rest in peace), the thought of them going out without Rick and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,10,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-39","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}