{"id":17235,"date":"2013-01-25T14:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2013-01-26T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:52:25","slug":"reigning-champ-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/reigning-champ-getting-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigning Champ: Getting Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJw5w6aWZGQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>We could have a Last Man Standing on children of rock &amp; rollers who have entered the business. but it seems like there are so many of them it would go on for weeks. (Maybe we could have an anti-LMS and have children of rock &amp; rollers who have not entered the business.)<\/p>\n<p>I saw a listing on a download site this morning that is a variation though. It was a concert recording of <strong>Roseanne Cash<\/strong> from 1981. I thought \u201cWow, 32 years in the business, I would have never guessed that.\u201d And looking on Wiki, her first album was released in 1979, so she\u2019s been in the biz for <del datetime=\"2013-01-25T22:08:02+00:00\">44<\/del> 34 years.<\/p>\n<p>So, not a LMS but maybe a <strong>Reigning Champ<\/strong>. <em>Who can come up with a second-generation rock &amp; roller (loosely defined to include all the genres we generally talk about here) with more time in the business than Roseanne Cash?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some rules. Backing vocals on Mom or Dad\u2019s recording when you were 6 years old don&#8217;t count. And let\u2019s arbitrarily keep it to musicians who were active post-1955. (Well, it\u2019s not really arbitrary: Hank Williams died on January 1, 1953\u2014and why didn\u2019t I see any 60th anniversary mention of that anywhere a few weeks ago\u2014and this way I can keep Bocephus out of the discussion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could have a Last Man Standing on children of rock &amp; rollers who have entered the business. but it seems like there are so many of them it would go on for weeks. (Maybe we could have an anti-LMS and have children of rock &amp; rollers who have not entered the business.) I saw <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/reigning-champ-getting-old\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}