{"id":13780,"date":"2012-06-06T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13780"},"modified":"2012-06-06T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T13:44:00","slug":"the-money-shot-vocals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-money-shot-vocals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Money Shot: Vocals"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ilwteQnEOmE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>The &#8220;money shot,&#8221; that big payoff moment&#8230; <strong>David Bowie<\/strong> provides one of rock&#8217;s all-time money shots at the 1:16 mark of &#8220;Heroes,&#8221; when he jumps up to the higher register. Even rock fans who have had issues with Bowie tend to dig &#8220;Heroes,&#8221; and I bet even the most down-to-earth, meat-and-potatoes rockers among get a little chill when his vocals leap an octave.<\/p>\n<p>I believe a significant portion of 1980s music was founded on this device, surely not a device Bowie founded but one he drove into our collective conscious. <strong>Bono<\/strong>, in particular, has tried to work this money shot move into 75% of U2&#8217;s songs.<\/p>\n<p>In future weeks we&#8217;ll examine money shot moments featuring other instruments, but today let&#8217;s focus on <strong>vocalists<\/strong>. What are some of rock&#8217;s other most-influential vocal money shots?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;money shot,&#8221; that big payoff moment&#8230; David Bowie provides one of rock&#8217;s all-time money shots at the 1:16 mark of &#8220;Heroes,&#8221; when he jumps up to the higher register. Even rock fans who have had issues with Bowie tend to dig &#8220;Heroes,&#8221; and I bet even the most down-to-earth, meat-and-potatoes rockers among get a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-money-shot-vocals\/' 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":[342],"tags":[153,648,563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780"}],"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=13780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}