{"id":2283,"date":"2008-03-20T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/03\/20\/social-media-rescues-70s-rock-bands\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T21:39:07","slug":"social-media-rescues-70s-rock-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/03\/20\/social-media-rescues-70s-rock-bands\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media rescues 70&#8217;s rock bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with 1970s rock bands and the Internet? Yet another example of social networks and Web 2.0 coming to the rescue of a faded rock group: legendary band Boston is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/music\/2008\/03\/boston-kicks-of.html\">starting a tour<\/a> this summer, and one of the stand-ins for missing singer Brad Delp (who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brad_Delp\">committed suicide<\/a> last year) will be a guy named Tommy DeCarlo, who the band found via cover versions of Boston hits that he had posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=150718048\">his MySpace page<\/a>. I can&#8217;t find out much about DeCarlo, but he&#8217;s actually pretty good at hitting the spine-tingling notes that Delp was famous for.<\/p>\n<p>Boston joins another rock band with long hair and a high-pitched singer: Journey, who parted ways with original singer Steve Perry and then later parted ways with his replacement as well. Then they discovered a Filipino fan on YouTube, and he is <a href=\"http:\/\/stereogum.com\/archives\/video\/cheapest-audition-ever-journey-searches-youtube-fi_007402.html\">now touring with the band<\/a>. And to round out the trio, the thrash metal band Anthrax also found a new band member in part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/internetNews\/idUSN1324624620071213?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=internetNews\">through MySpace<\/a>. And of course INXS found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livedaily.com\/news\/8823.html\">replacement for their singer<\/a> through a reality show called Rockstar INXS, which isn&#8217;t really social media but is pretty close. If I were a singer or guitarist for a fading rock band, I would behave myself, if only because I would be afraid that my fellow bandmates could replace me with some yob they found on MySpace.<\/p>\n<p><i>bonus Canadian content: J.D. Fortune is Canadian, Brad Delp&#8217;s parents were Canadian, and Boston&#8217;s tour starts in Thunder Bay.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with 1970s rock bands and the Internet? Yet another example of social networks and Web 2.0 coming to the rescue of a faded rock group: legendary band Boston is starting a tour this summer, and one of the stand-ins for missing singer Brad Delp (who committed suicide last year) will be a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/03\/20\/social-media-rescues-70s-rock-bands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social media rescues 70&#8217;s rock bands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}