{"id":342,"date":"2007-02-09T20:54:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T01:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2007-02-09T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T01:54:02","slug":"the-fleshtones-speed-connection-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/the-fleshtones-speed-connection-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fleshtones &#8212; Speed Connection II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fleshtonesspeedconnection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627\" title=\"The Fleshtones -- Speed Connection II\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fleshtonesspeedconnection.jpg\" alt=\"The Fleshtones -- Speed Connection II\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Fleshtones<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Speed Connection II<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1985<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 6<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1985 &#8211; When I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In general, live recordings are &#8220;for-fans-only&#8221;, and <em>Speed Connection II<\/em> from The Fleshtones is no exception. Moreover, I think this record killed their chance to break out to a wider audience in the late 1980s and beyond. I&#8217;m no Fleshtones historian but I say all that based on my real world experience from working at a chain record store when this was released. I had been a fan for a while and my <em>perception<\/em> was that their label IRS really decided to promote this one. Which is too bad because for a lot of people this was the first thing they heard by The Fleshtones. And they did not dig it, they told me. This isn&#8217;t the greatest recording ever. The performances are great, but the sound is inconsistent. Also, many of the songs are covers or medleys or watered-down versions of studio tracks. For fans only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Fleshtones Title: Speed Connection II Year: 1985 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 6 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1985 &#8211; When I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA Keeper: Yes In general, live recordings are &#8220;for-fans-only&#8221;, and Speed Connection II from The Fleshtones is no exception. Moreover, I think this record killed their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,452,453],"tags":[509,682,698,46,936,993,1033],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-509","tag-fleshtones","tag-garage-rock","tag-music","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-super-rock","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}