{"id":2261,"date":"2011-12-09T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2011-12-09T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:43:59","slug":"bonus_video_je_suis_rick_springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/09\/bonus_video_je_suis_rick_springfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus Video: &#8220;Je Suis Rick Springfield&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previous video reminded me of&nbsp;something a couple&nbsp;friends&nbsp;turned me onto a while back, which&nbsp;I&#8217;ve been meaning to post&nbsp;but just&nbsp;haven&#8217;t gotten around to. It&#8217;s another live performance, this time by a musician&nbsp;named Johnathan Coulton. I&#8217;m not at all familiar with him &#8212; I gather he&#8217;s an indie artist with&nbsp;a pretty sizable cult following &#8212; but the song is catchy and seems to have benign intentions, i.e., Coulton&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t sound like he&#8217;s being cruel toward my main man despite the (apparently) humorous nature of the lyrics. It&#8217;s hard to tell for sure since it&#8217;s sung in French and I don&#8217;t know French, but&#8230; well, I&#8217;ll let Johnathan himself explain what it&#8217;s about:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ep338n-iFOM\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"284\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One thing I particularly appreciate about this (and which I assume is deliberate) is how much it sounds like&#8230; a Rick Springfield song! No, really, the guitar tone here is very similar to Rick&#8217;s own audio signature, the same sound you hear on &#8220;Jessie&#8217;s Girl,&#8221; among many others. I like that sound, obviously, and I liked it so much in <i>this<\/i> song that I was fully prepared to purchase one of those new-fangled download thingies until I learned the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7xRhNLoGQng\">album recording<\/a>&nbsp;is somewhat different. Maybe Coulton will release another version with that deep, early-80s thrum that I love so much. In the meantime, enjoy this one as we roll on past midnight, chasing after the early morning hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous video reminded me of&nbsp;something a couple&nbsp;friends&nbsp;turned me onto a while back, which&nbsp;I&#8217;ve been meaning to post&nbsp;but just&nbsp;haven&#8217;t gotten around to. It&#8217;s another live performance, this time by a musician&nbsp;named Johnathan Coulton. I&#8217;m not at all familiar with him &#8212; I gather he&#8217;s an indie artist with&nbsp;a pretty sizable cult following &#8212; but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-evening-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}