{"id":2624,"date":"2012-08-17T00:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2012-08-17T00:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:49:13","slug":"friday-evening-videos-midnight-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/17\/friday-evening-videos-midnight-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos: &#8220;Midnight Blue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s video selection isn&#8217;t particularly significant, and I have no particular memory or anecdote associated with it. I just like the song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7cRdgIZgobs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lou Gramm was, of course, the lead singer for one of the biggest bands of the classic-rock era, Foreigner. But like so many leads from bands that peaked creatively in the late &#8217;70s and early &#8217;80s, including Steve Perry of Journey, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, and especially Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, Gramm felt the need to go solo for a while in the late &#8217;80s. He scored a couple of hits from two solo albums, of which this single &#8212; &#8220;Midnight Blue&#8221; &#8212; was the biggest, charting at number one on the <i>Billboard <\/i>charts for five weeks in the spring of 1987. As I said, I have no specific memory associated with it, but the melodic guitar and propulsive bassline always appealed to me on a purely sonic level, and hearing it now reminds me of a time and a general emotional background state.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing the video before this afternoon, so the imagery of a brooding, leather-jacketed young man in a long red convertible had nothing to do with me liking this tune. Any resemblance to my persona at the age I was when this song came out is purely coincidental&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s video selection isn&#8217;t particularly significant, and I have no particular memory or anecdote associated with it. I just like the song: Lou Gramm was, of course, the lead singer for one of the biggest bands of the classic-rock era, Foreigner. But like so many leads from bands that peaked creatively in the late &#8217;70s [&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-2624","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\/2624","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=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}