{"id":19708,"date":"2013-08-07T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19708"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:17:16","slug":"acoustic-guitarcool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/acoustic-guitarcool\/","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic Guitar Cool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See if you can invest 10 minutes into the following clip. At 7 minutes and 42 seconds into the motorpsycho mayhem, some guy is seen sitting cross-legged in a field, playing a song on his acoustic guitar. It got me thinking: <em>Does anyone ever look cool playing an acoustic guitar in a movie?<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vby7lSQMEnY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got nothing against acoustic guitars, mind you. Well, with <a title=\"Ovation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/inventor-of-the-dreaded-ovation-roundback-guitar-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\">one huge exception<\/a>. However, as I watched this clip my mind leaped to the guy whose acoustic guitar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NqpNQ9AJYgU\" target=\"_blank\">John Belushi&#8217;s Bluto smashes without warning in <em>Animal House<\/em><\/a>. The cult leader in one of my favorite movies of recent years, <a title=\"Martha Marcy May Marlene\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/marthamarcymaymarlene\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Martha Marcy May Marlene<\/em><\/a>, plays a creepy folk ballad on his acoustic at one point. It&#8217;s a brilliant, creepy scene in a movie loaded with them, but does he look cool playing that song on his acoustic? I think not.<\/p>\n<p>Someone must look cool playing an acoustic guitar in a movie\u2014a fictional movie, not a concert film or actual artist documentary. You tell me.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you know you want more of the guy playing the acoustic guitar in the middle of that motorpsycho mayhem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkFwWdYXeqA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See if you can invest 10 minutes into the following clip. At 7 minutes and 42 seconds into the motorpsycho mayhem, some guy is seen sitting cross-legged in a field, playing a song on his acoustic guitar. It got me thinking: Does anyone ever look cool playing an acoustic guitar in a movie? I&#8217;ve got <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/acoustic-guitarcool\/' 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":[164,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708"}],"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=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}