{"id":1688,"date":"2014-02-27T05:50:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2014-02-27T05:50:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:50:35","slug":"cdrocketfromthetombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdrocketfromthetombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Rocket From the Tombs &#8220;Rocket Redux&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CDRocket-from-the-Tombs_Tom.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket From the Tombs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Rocket Redux&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>(Smog Veil)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The band that gave birth to Pere Ubu and Dead Boys, &#8217;70s Cleveland rockers Rocket from the Tombs here, offers a reprise of a reprise. Material for this first-ever studio album was taken from the collection of demos and live recordings that made up &#8216;The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs&#8217; (Glitterhouse, 2000). This means we have the first studio recordings of &#8220;30 Seconds over Tokyo&#8221; and &#8220;Life Stinks&#8221;. These two Peter Laughner songs were originally done by Rocket from the Tombs and only later by Pere Ubu. The group had already been together for a summer tour before they decided to record these songs, now fully rehearsed with Richard Lloyd at his Manhattan EGB Studios. The group existed for less than a year but was seminal and very important, making this belated recording an important moment in rock history.<\/p>\n<p>Tom &#8220;Tearaway&#8221; Schulte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket From the Tombs &#8220;Rocket Redux&#8221; (Smog Veil) The band that gave birth to Pere Ubu and Dead Boys, &#8217;70s Cleveland rockers Rocket from the Tombs here, offers a reprise of a reprise. Material for this first-ever studio album was taken from the collection of demos and live recordings that made up &#8216;The Day the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3622,6081,6082],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}