{"id":1405,"date":"2008-04-29T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-15T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T12:56:23","slug":"oh-very-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-very-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Very Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5CXv-6uKUZ4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nLike teaching a curveball to a young boy whose arm has not yet matured &#8211; or starting that same preteen boy on a heavy course of weightlifting &#8211; are there bands or albums that can be harmful to a young person&#8217;s musical development if exposed at too young an age?<\/p>\n<p>This came up in a recent discussion with <strong>Townsman Andyr<\/strong>. I was telling him about our preadolescent boy getting into <strong>ELO<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Do Ya&#8221; and &#8220;Living Thing&#8221; and asking me to play him more of their music. When I told Andyr that my son asked me if &#8220;Do Ya&#8221; was the first heavy metal song, Andyr said, &#8220;Did you use this as an opportunity to open a discussion with him on <strong>The Move<\/strong> vs ELO?&#8221; My old friend knows me too well. Of course I did, and I made a mental note to play him the original &#8220;Do Ya&#8221; in the coming days!<\/p>\n<p>Then Andyr asked me if I was going to turn him onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/06\/27\/roy_wood_boulders\"><strong>Roy Wood<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Boulders<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;No,&#8221; was my immediate reply, &#8220;he&#8217;s too young for that one.&#8221; That&#8217;s when Andyr brought up the curveball analogy. Having my boy jump ahead to a premature appreciation for <em>Boulders<\/em> (longshot that it might be) could mess up his musical development. It&#8217;s not that the material is &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; in some prudish sense, but possibly loving it before working his way through the fundamentals of that strain of British pop music might give him a skewed idea of rock &#8216;n roll. He might blow out a forearm muscle and never learn to properly play power chords. You know what I mean? <\/p>\n<p>I once had a similar feeling as a flea market, when a 12-year-old boy wanted to buy a used copy of <strong>John Cale<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Slow Dazzle<\/em> from a bin I was manning. Beside the fact that I didn&#8217;t want this boy leaving with a copy of an album I felt sucked and didn&#8217;t deserve to ever be resold (even if it was my own dreaded copy I was looking to move), I was worried that his possibly liking that album without first liking a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/03\/15\/terry_riley_john_cale_lemgthe_church_of_\">great John Cale<\/a> album might hinder his ability to ever discern good from bad Cale albums.<\/p>\n<p>To those of you who&#8217;ve been entrusted with the musical development of young people, have you ever faced such a dilemma? <em>I look forward to your sharing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like teaching a curveball to a young boy whose arm has not yet matured &#8211; or starting that same preteen boy on a heavy course of weightlifting &#8211; are there bands or albums that can be harmful to a young person&#8217;s musical development if exposed at too young an age? This came up in a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-very-young\/' 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":[46,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"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=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}