{"id":10747,"date":"2011-12-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10747"},"modified":"2011-12-14T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:53:12","slug":"consult-the-orockle-in-tun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/consult-the-orockle-in-tun\/","title":{"rendered":"Consult the Orockle: How Can I Explain to My 10-Year-Old Son the Purpose of the Long Fadeout on The Who\u2019s \u201cGetting in Tune\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The wisdom of The Hall continues to amaze me. For as many knowledgeable individuals who dazzle with their rock knowledge, it is the collective<\/em> wisdom of our participants that I find most dazzling.<\/p>\n

It is in this spirit that I want to allow for further amazement\u2014not only for<\/em> the people but by<\/em> the people. Rather than turn this into my own original post, maybe even do a few minutes of research on the Web, I thought better of it. Instead, I’d like to pose a question on behalf of a fellow Townsperson to the collective wisdom of The Orockle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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My 10-year-old son has an obsessive way with enjoying music. He gets into a certain song and then plays it endlessly, often for weeks at a time. For instance, in the past\u00a03 months he’s analyzed every nook and cranny of ELO<\/strong>‘s “Sweet Talking Woman,” Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/strong>‘s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” Van Morrison<\/strong>‘s “St. Dominic’s Preview,” and lately The Who<\/strong>‘s “Getting in Tune.” He sings along to the songs, if possible finding YouTube clips that show the lyrics in real time. He imitates each singer, digging in like John Fogarty at just the right points and even working in the backing vocals on the ELO number. He decided that he prefers the live version of “St. Dominic’s Preview” to the studio version. It’s really cool, if occasionally annoying when I hear one of these songs playing in the background for the 15th time. Mostly, though, it’s really cool\u2014so cool that I can overlook the occasional slight annoyance. Beside, it’s not like the apple fell far from the tree.<\/p>\n

There’s one thing that’s been bugging him, however, on repeated spins of “Getting in Tune”: the long fadeout. “The last minute is like a doll with a string,” he said the other night, “saying the same thing over and over. Why do they have to waste the last minute singing that one line?” I tried to explain the purpose of the fadeout, but I failed in convincing him of the fadeout’s intended majesty, its unlocking of the Power & Glory. Oh Orockle, how can I explain to my 10-year-old son the purpose of the long fadeout on The Who’s “Getting in Tune”<\/em>?<\/p>\n

PS<\/em> – A day after drafting this I flipped over to an old Rolling Stones concert movie on TV while my son was on the computer. “Tumbling Dice” started up. “What’s this song called again, Daddy?” he called over to me. “I’m going to look it up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wisdom of The Hall continues to amaze me. For as many knowledgeable individuals who dazzle with their rock knowledge, it is the collective wisdom of our participants that I find most dazzling. It is in this spirit that I want to allow for further amazement\u2014not only for the people but by the people. Rather […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747"}],"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=10747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}