{"id":1476,"date":"2007-10-22T04:31:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2007-10-22T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T10:40:11","slug":"have-a-good-time-but-get-out-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"Have A Good Time (But Get Out Alive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Fiver&#8221; homey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bovious.com\/blogs\/main\/\">Bovious <\/a>tells me I sorta kinda made the big time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/houserockers\/LoveSoTough.html\"><strong><font color=\"#cccc99\">The Iron City Houserockers<\/font><\/strong><\/a> were Pittsburgh&#8217;s entry in the Heartland Rock Sweepstakes that occured after the success of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. They had literate lyrics, tough rock and roll backing, and clear-eyed vision. Led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joegrushecky.ca\/\"><strong><font color=\"#cccc00\">Joe Grushecky<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, a special ed teacher by day, produced by Miami Steve Van Zandt of the E Street Band, and possessed of tunes like <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=flSlch8MEgw\"><strong><font color=\"#cccc99\">&#8220;Junior&#8217;s Bar&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/a> (youtube), they seemed poised to hit the big time, but it never quite happened, which is the music audience&#8217;s loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They link (beginning of the graf) to a tribute site I designed almost five years ago to the Houserockers (aka &#8220;the greatest band you never heard of, unless you&#8217;re occasional commenters Don or DaveInPgh&#8221;) &#8211; a band whose only fan west of Chicago, ever, may have been me.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;q=houserockers+site%3Awww.shotinthedark.info&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Not that that stopped me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotta get some of that on the Ipod, now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Fiver&#8221; homey Bovious tells me I sorta kinda made the big time: The Iron City Houserockers were Pittsburgh&#8217;s entry in the Heartland Rock Sweepstakes that occured after the success of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. They had literate lyrics, tough rock and roll backing, and clear-eyed vision. Led by Joe Grushecky, a special ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}