{"id":2976,"date":"2004-11-30T04:53:24","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/30\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:11:48","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/30\/blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I never realized before &#8212; apparently, the person in this iconic ad for Maxell audiocassettes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/11\/graphics\/maxell-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/11\/graphics\/maxell-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"197\" width=\"400\" align=\"\" alt=\"Maxell Audiocasette ad\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;is none other than then-<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewArtist%253FartistId%253D93888%2526originStoreFront%253D143441%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Bauhaus\">Bauhaus<\/a> frontman <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewArtist%253FartistId%253D3023019%2526originStoreFront%253D143441%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Peter Murphy\">Peter Murphy<\/a>. Nifty!<\/p>\n<p>(trivia via <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/cultofmac\/index.blog?entry_id=539941\" title=\"The iPod Zone\">Cult of Mac<\/a>, image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stangbangers.com\/88_Maxell_Ad.htm\" title=\"88 Maxell Ad\">Stangbangers<\/a>, clumsily Photoshopped together by me &#8212; sorry, my Photoshop-fu isn&#8217;t good enough to remove the horrid moir\u00e9 pattern from the original scan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DDepeche Mode%2526albumTerm=Ultra%2526songTerm=Sister of Night%26partnerId%3D30\">Sister of Night<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DDepeche Mode%26partnerId%3D30\">Depeche Mode<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DDepeche Mode%2526albumTerm=Ultra%26partnerId%3D30\">Ultra<\/a><\/em> (1997, 6:04).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I never realized before &mdash; apparently, the person in this iconic ad for Maxell audiocassettes&hellip;is none other than then-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy. Nifty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976"}],"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=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}