{"id":1997,"date":"2003-12-02T18:49:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T10:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/03\/dead-milkmen-tour-diaries\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:12:18","slug":"dead-milkmen-tour-diaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/02\/dead-milkmen-tour-diaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Milkmen tour diaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How very, very cool. Dean Clean, drummer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmilkmen.com\/\" title=\"The Dead Milkmen\">Dead Milkmen<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmilkmen.com\/tourstories\/\" title=\"...18 years ago...\">posting his tour diaries<\/a> from the band&#8217;s first days of touring back in 1985.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This site contains tour diary entries written by Dean &#8216;Clean&#8217; Sabatino of the band The Dead Milkmen. We stopped touring back in 1994, but through the magic of modern day computer technology I can tell these stories again.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  I was 23-24 years old when I wrote these diaries. I certainly wasn&#8217;t planning on publishing them when I wrote them; so reading them now either makes me laugh, cry or cringe. I will not make any claims to being a gifted writer or diarist, but the aim here is to give the reader some sense of what it was like to tour across the USA in a van with a punk rock band in the mid to late 1980&#8217;s. Some say this was the heyday of independent rock music and the college radio scene. I would bet we worked harder and played many more shows than many of today&#8217;s &#8216;alternative&#8217; rock bands will play in their short-lived careers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/29955\" title=\"Better Late Than Never\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How very, very cool. Dean Clean, drummer for the Dead Milkmen, is posting his tour diaries from the band&#8217;s first days of touring back in 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}