{"id":1138,"date":"2006-07-31T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2006-07-31T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T16:42:12","slug":"hee-haw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"Hee Haw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cruising through the channels Saturday evening, we ran into a Hee Haw marathon. It'd been a long time since either of us had seen it, so I stopped, to make sure it was as dumb as I remembered. It was! It was a late-80's episode, and it, uh, sucked<\/em>: the music was lame, the mega-hick jokes were dumb, the sketches were mercifully short, but still managed to drag - twenty seconds of Minnie Pearl and the poofy-hair bimbos is fifteen too many. But the strange part was a segment where Roy Clark<\/a> is on stage with his guitar, along with another guy who's holding a Roland G707 guitar synth:
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\n... on Hee Haw<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Other Guy plays some synth-orchestra sounds. Roy's all like \"WTF?\". Then O.G. plays some kind of flutey stuff, showing off what his toy can do. Roy looks like \"Yeah, that great. Do I really have to do this? Yeah? Fuck. OK, let's get it over with,\" and starts Duelling Banjos<\/em>. O.G. fiddles with his foot pedals for a bit, then joins in with this kind of cheesy synth-Jew's-harp sound - twang, twang, plink, ploink, twang<\/em>. It was like two different performances: Roy's tearing the hell out of that song (wow, was he good); but O.G. sounds like he's playing the soundtrack to some lame-ass fishing game for NES. Strange shit.<\/p>\n

And, speaking of music on TV, MTV is celebrating it's 25th anniversary Aug 1st. So, VH1 Classic has been showing the first hour of MTV all week. Watching it, I noticed something I'm surprised I never noticed before: Britain was pretty gloomy in the early <\/em>80's - or at least the people who made videos for British bands wanted everyone to think of it that way. I hope it's cheered-up a bit since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cruising through the channels Saturday evening, we ran into a Hee Haw marathon. It'd been a long time since either of us had seen it, so I stopped, to make sure it was as dumb as I remembered. It was! It was a late-80's episode, and it, uh, sucked: the music was lame, the mega-hick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}