{"id":922,"date":"2026-07-15T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:44:26","slug":"happy-birthday-cameron-crowe-we-cover-almost-famous-2000-singles-1992-and-roadies-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Cameron Crowe! We cover Almost Famous (2000), Singles (1992), and Roadies (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/almost-famous-cast.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[922]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"897\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/almost-famous-cast-897x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/almost-famous-cast-897x1024.jpg 897w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/almost-famous-cast-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/almost-famous-cast-768x877.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/almost-famous-cast-1345x1536.jpg 1345w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/almost-famous-cast.jpg 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Rocklopedia Fakebandica podcast wishes Cameron Crowe a happy 69th birthday by looking into his fake band legacy. From <em>Singles<\/em> and the birth of grunge, to <em>Almost Famous<\/em> and the nostalgia of the rock gods of the 1970s, and even one of the hardest TV shows we&#8217;ve ever attempted to find, we discuss Crowe&#8217;s fictional music universe, including one of the bigger fake bands out there: Stillwater.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7eV1UaASaMgcTxNuIzhgYC\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li>On <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/happy-birthday-cameron-crowe\/id1738865725?i=1000776536134\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/rocklopedia\">Everything else!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocklopedia Fakebandica podcast wishes Cameron Crowe a happy 69th birthday by looking into his fake band legacy. From Singles and the birth of grunge, to Almost Famous and the nostalgia of the rock gods of the 1970s, and even one of the hardest TV shows we&#8217;ve ever attempted to find, we discuss Crowe&#8217;s fictional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-eS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}