{"id":100,"date":"2007-01-16T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T23:06:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-03T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:47:34","slug":"holstering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/holstering\/","title":{"rendered":"Holstering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5126\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5126\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5126\" title=\"holsterbono\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/holsterbono-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/holsterbono-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/holsterbono.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bono holsters his guitar.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Holstering is the practice of a lead singer wearing a guitar but rarely playing it, rather flipping it back on his or her hip for all but a chorus or solo, if that. <strong>Bono<\/strong> and <strong>Mick Jagger<\/strong> are two of the move&#8217;s best-known practitioners. As is typical of practitioners of holstering, Bono and Jagger appeared onstage without a guitar for <em>years<\/em> before attempting to impress audiences with their newly acquired ability to strum a major chord. <strong>Roger Daltry<\/strong> would also debut a holstered guitar well into the career of The Who.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5127\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5127\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5127\" title=\"holsterbruce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/holsterbruce-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/holsterbruce-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/holsterbruce.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Boss holsters a la Rambo!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It should be pointed out that holstering is not the domain of formerly axe-free lead singers alone. There are veteran guitar-playing singers who decide to holster their guitar on songs with rhythms beyond their capability, or they holster their guitar to better <em>emote<\/em> through a key verse or chorus. <strong>Joe Strummer<\/strong> often resorted to holstering for both of these reasons. <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> has also been known to holster his guitar to better focus on showing the audience how committed he is to the particular verse he&#8217;s singing. The Boss has also been known to holster for more practical reasons, such as those final choruses on his epic songs, in which multiple bandana-clad guitarists and backing singers gather around a single mic in an Iwo Jima-like show of heroic band unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holstering is the practice of a lead singer wearing a guitar but rarely playing it, rather flipping it back on his or her hip for all but a chorus or solo, if that. Bono and Mick Jagger are two of the move&#8217;s best-known practitioners. As is typical of practitioners of holstering, Bono and Jagger appeared <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/holstering\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[115,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}