{"id":11698,"date":"2021-11-02T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11698"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T22:58:03","slug":"the-the-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/02\/the-the-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"THE THE Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/the-the\/the-the-interview-the-comeback-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from PASTE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The The&#8217;s Matt Johnson on&nbsp;<em>The Comeback Special<\/em>&nbsp;and Finding a Way Forward<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/writers?name=tom+lanham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom Lanham<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The The - Infected (Video)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orIy18qIaCU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry for the slight delay, apologizes British composer\/conceptualist Matt Johnson. But by all accounts, the ephemeral 2018 reunion tour of his classic The The project was truly something to behold for all fans fortunate enough to attend. The short run of dates marked the first time in 16 years that the vocalist\/guitarist had performed live with old cohorts James Eller (Bass), D.C. Collard (keyboards) and Earl Harvin (drums), augmented by new co-guitarist Barrie Cadogan, and it reframed in a more modern context dark, moody classics like \u201cInfected,\u201d \u201cThe Beat(en) Generation,\u201d and the signature \u201cThis is the Day\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ve Been Waiting For Tomorrow (For All My Life).\u201d Yet it\u2019s only now, three years later, that his recording\/publishing company Cineola is releasing a Royal Albert Hall-filmed document of the affair\u2014humorously dubbed, a la a leather-clad Elvis Presley in his own \u201968 return,\u00a0<em>The Comeback Special<\/em>\u2014in separate video, album and 136-page art book forms. \u201cIt should have come out sooner, but the pandemic slowed everything down,\u201d sighs Johnson, who just turned 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/the-the\/the-the-interview-the-comeback-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at PASTE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PASTE The The&#8217;s Matt Johnson on&nbsp;The Comeback Special&nbsp;and Finding a Way Forward By\u00a0Tom Lanham Sorry for the slight delay, apologizes British composer\/conceptualist Matt Johnson. But by all accounts, the ephemeral 2018 reunion tour of his classic The The project was truly something to behold for all fans fortunate enough to attend. The short run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}