{"id":18653,"date":"2010-01-05T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2010-01-05T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:40:16","slug":"unhappy-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/unhappy-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/l5I2vEcVC_I&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/l5I2vEcVC_I&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/musicblog\/2010\/jan\/04\/rowland-s-howard-tribute\">Everett True<\/a> remembers the Birthday Party&#8217;s guitar god Rowland S Howard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/death-of-a-ladies-man\/\">Nick Cave<\/a> was charismatic, a sardonic streak of energy and charm; bassist Tracy Pew was the sort of man you <i>never<\/i> wanted to be stuck inside a jail cell with; but it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/rowland-howard-hangs-up-his-guitar-for-keeps-20091230-ljxn.html\">Howard<\/a> \u2013 with his nerve-jangling shards of feedback left hanging in the air \u2013 that my gaze was invariably drawn to. He cut a memorable figure on stage: lean, ravaged; omnipresent cigarette dangling from the lips; guitar being wrenched and pummelled until it could howl no more. He and Cave were natural foils (indeed, Cave to this day has never quite managed to find an on-stage sparring partner to match Howard). Howard&#8217;s live presence became the yardstick by which I still measure all other guitarists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5nr5DyVLiW0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5nr5DyVLiW0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everett True remembers the Birthday Party&#8217;s guitar god Rowland S Howard: Singer Nick Cave was charismatic, a sardonic streak of energy and charm; bassist Tracy Pew was the sort of man you never wanted to be stuck inside a jail cell with; but it was Howard \u2013 with his nerve-jangling shards of feedback left hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}