{"id":3513,"date":"2008-08-27T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:45:33","slug":"colin-tackles-story-of-tower-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2008\/08\/colin-tackles-story-of-tower-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Shallit: Colin Hanks tackles story of Tower Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTV spoke with Colin Hanks about his documentary project about the story of Tower records recently. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Sacbee.com takes about this topic in there article &#8220;Bob Shallit: Colin Hanks tackles story of Tower Records&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the MTV story is confirmed by Tower founder Russ Solomon, who says he&#8217;s been interviewed by Hanks and considers the project &#8220;extremely flattering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, Solomon adds, &#8220;I told them they&#8217;re nuts. How are they going to make any money on it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also contacted by the filmmakers was Dick Harris, the first manager of Tower&#8217;s Watt Avenue store, which opened in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was interviewed on film \u2013 at the now-closed Watt site \u2013 and came away impressed. &#8220;These guys are serious,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s not two kids with a hand-held camera.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/103\/story\/1185248.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacbee.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV spoke with Colin Hanks about his documentary project about the story of Tower records recently. Now, Sacbee.com takes about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2377,3],"tags":[18,1517,1516],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colin-hanks","category-leading","tag-colin-hanks","tag-documentary","tag-tower-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29919,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/29919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}