{"id":343,"date":"2007-02-12T23:01:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T04:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2007-02-12T23:01:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T04:01:52","slug":"the-fleshtones-fleshtones-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/the-fleshtones-fleshtones-vs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fleshtones &#8212; Fleshtones Vs. Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fleshtonesvsreality.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-626\" title=\"The Fleshtones -- Fleshtones Vs. Reality\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fleshtonesvsreality.jpg\" alt=\"The Fleshtones -- Fleshtones Vs. Reality\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Fleshtones<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Fleshtones Vs. Reality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1987<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1987 &#8211; Bought it  when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records and Tapes in Hampton, VA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My memories of <em>Fleshtones Vs. Reality<\/em> are fuzzier than those of the records The Fleshtones made before it. I remember the songs, just not note-for-note. Must&#8217;ve been busy that year. I <em>did<\/em> get to see the boys that same year at the great ol&#8217; 930 Club in D.C, at its original location on F Street. Check out the ticket stub below, only $8! In 1987! That was half a lifetime ago for me, oof.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this record seems a little more mature, in a good way, but the good time music is still what it&#8217;s all about. Also, the horns seem bigger and badder than before. As I have said a few times before you can&#8217;t achieve maximum rock and roll, or Fleshtones&#8217; &#8220;Super Rock&#8221;, without horns. I like all the songs, and my favorite is probably &#8220;Way Up Here&#8221; with that sweet sounding recorder riff. Side two has another Fleshtones-style club banger in &#8220;The End of The Track&#8221;, complete with wailing alarms and sirens. And this concludes the posts of official Fleshtones records&#8230; or does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Fleshtones Title: Fleshtones Vs. Reality Year: 1987 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1987 &#8211; Bought it when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records and Tapes in Hampton, VA Keeper: Yes My memories of Fleshtones Vs. Reality are fuzzier than those of the records The Fleshtones made before it. I [&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":[511,682,698,46,904,936,993,1033],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-511","tag-fleshtones","tag-garage-rock","tag-music","tag-pop-rock","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-super-rock","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}