{"id":810,"date":"2000-07-23T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2000-07-23T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=810"},"modified":"2008-07-15T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:31:32","slug":"john-doe-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/07\/john-doe-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"John Doe Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Alastriona for sending this in<\/p>\n<p>From the San Diego Union Tribune&#8217;s Night &#038; Day section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freedom Is&#8230; The John Doe Thing spinART **<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Singer-guitarist John Doe has said in interviews that he hates it when<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s referred to in the context of his past with the seminal L.A. punk band<br \/>\nX, which he co-founded in the late &#8217;70s and with which he continues to play.<br \/>\nYet it&#8217;s hard to imagine that Doe, who has recruited X drummer D.J.<br \/>\nBonebrake and Aimee Mann bassist Drew Ross to back him on this, his third<br \/>\nsolo record, would draw much attention for the modestly named John Doe Thing<br \/>\nif it weren&#8217;t for X.<\/p>\n<p>His voice, a gruff approximation of elder statesman such as Lou Reed<br \/>\nand Leonard Cohen, is so ragged, it sounds either constipated or<br \/>\nindifferent. The material here vacillates between acoustic lullabies<br \/>\n(&#8220;Totally Yours&#8221;) and roughneck rockers (&#8220;Someday\/NoDay&#8221;), but through it<br \/>\nall, Doe wallows in self-absorbed pity and depression.&#8221; &#8211;Jeff Niesel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Alastriona for sending this in From the San Diego Union Tribune&#8217;s Night &#038; Day section: Freedom Is&#8230; The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[4],"tags":[448,92,240,16,362],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting","tag-album","tag-john-doe","tag-music","tag-review","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}