{"id":481,"date":"2008-02-27T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-02-27T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T01:15:09","slug":"the-music-machine-best-of-the-music-machine-featuring-sean-bonniwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/the-music-machine-best-of-the-music-machine-featuring-sean-bonniwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Music Machine &#8212; Best Of The Music Machine (Featuring Sean Bonniwell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/musicmachine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-796\" title=\"The Music Machine -- Best Of The Music Machine (Featuring Sean Bonniwell)\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/musicmachine.jpg\" alt=\"The Music Machine -- Best Of The Music Machine (Featuring Sean Bonniwell)\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Music Machine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Best Of The Music Machine (Featuring Sean Bonniwell)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1984<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1984 &#8211; Probably mail order from some place like Midnight Records in NYC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since I mentioned The Music Machine in my last post I thought I would post this <em>Best Of The Music Machine (Featuring Sean Bonniwell)<\/em> record next. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve heard it and it&#8217;s more rocking than I remembered.<\/p>\n<p>This album was released by Rhino in 1984. That&#8217;s like some label today re-releasing music that was popular, or at least existed, in the late 1980s, for a new audience. I was in high school when I bought this re-issue, so it&#8217;s not like I was being nostalgic. I suppose there may be some teenagers out there who would be excited to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1988_in_music\" target=\"_blank\">music from 1988<\/a>, but it seems weird to me.<\/p>\n<p>Most people think the seeds of heavy metal were sewn in the late 1960s, but I think The Music Machine got there a few years earlier. They have some heavy riffs, tricky song structures, dark lyrics, and &#8211;best of all&#8211; they wore all black clothing, dyed their hair black, and wore a black glove on one hand only. The notes on the back cover describe them as being &#8220;in the vanguard of the punk rock boom.&#8221; Maybe, but after another round of listening I&#8217;m convinced The Music Machine was proto-metal. And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Music_Machine\">The Music Machine<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Music Machine Title: Best Of The Music Machine (Featuring Sean Bonniwell) Year: 1984 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1984 &#8211; Probably mail order from some place like Midnight Records in NYC. Keeper: Yes Since I mentioned The Music Machine in my last post I thought I would post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,452,453],"tags":[490,508,728,46,846,911,1033],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-490","tag-508","tag-heavy-metal","tag-music","tag-music-machine","tag-psychedelic","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}