{"id":521,"date":"2007-04-19T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T12:06:31","slug":"james-william-guercio-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"james william guercio &#8211; tell me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">and now for something completely different, none of  that blog house gubbins, a break from the head splitting groove, and instead it&#8217;s  time to check out a song that you cannot currently buy via your usual  places.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the film from which this track has been lifted,  <EM>electra glide in blue,<\/EM>&nbsp;is one of those rare pieces of 70s cinema  that probably looks better now then it did then, so next time its dropped into  your <EM>film4<\/EM> schedule then please set your timer to pick this up. the  film is about a motorcycle cop who is unhappy with his current path in life, so  works his way into a murder investigation only to realise that sometimes your  dreams are best left as a dream. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">it&#8217;s a wonderful dark, sombre film in which you  become engrossed in workings of the various characters involved, but nothing  prepares you for the ending. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">a genuinely breathtaking showstopper,&nbsp; the  type of ending that studios would never allow to happen in modern movie making.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">what drives the epic nature of the closing scene  home even more, is the song <EM>tell me. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">a grandiose 70s rock track that builds and builds  with layers of piano, guitars, and orchestrations. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">a masterpiece of melancholy and drama that i have  fallen for, in a big way in recent weeks.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">upon seeing the film i decided to see if i could  track a copy of the soundtrack down, only to realise that its rather rare.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">with the help of some modern computer freakiness,  means that with a little tweaking here and there i have managed to extract the  song for all to hear.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, please, close the curtains, switch off your  mobile phone, pour yourself a nice glass of red wine and just let this brilliant  song take over your life for the next few minutes.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>mp3&nbsp;:<\/EM> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/tell_me.mp3\">james william guercio  (vocals by terry kath)&nbsp;&#8211; tell me<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.timmwood.com\/electraglide.html\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and now for something completely different, none of that blog house gubbins, a break from the head splitting groove, and instead it&#8217;s time to check out a song that you cannot currently buy via your usual places. the film from which this track has been lifted, electra glide in blue,&nbsp;is one of those rare pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}