{"id":20128,"date":"2013-09-27T16:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20128"},"modified":"2013-09-27T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:28:16","slug":"tough-love-robert-wegmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/tough-love-robert-wegmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Love:  Robert Wegmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out at the once lively and exciting \u2014 now sad and slightly weird \u2014 XTC fan site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chalkhills.org\">chalkhills.org<\/a>, where I found a reference to the ongoing XTC-like work of a guy named Robert Wegmann. Being in possession of a fairly open mind, I headed out to the Internet to see what I could see.<\/p>\n<p>What I saw made me feel deeply conflicted. Here&#8217;s what I saw:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BfXS7InqelE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>And here&#8217;s how it made me feel:<\/p>\n<p>I am now officially a middle-aged man. Though I never really strove for any kind of significant success in the field of music, I did keep trying, for the fun of it \u2014 and I still write music, of a style not totally dissimilar to Mr. Wegmann&#8217;s. My music is better than some, and worse than others \u2014 like Mr. Wegmann&#8217;s. I sort of feel like I could <em>be<\/em> Robert Wegmann. I feel for the guy. Hell, I may even feel <em>like<\/em> the guy.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not Robert Wegmann, and that, believe me, is a choice I have made very deliberately. I think I am too old for a bowl hair-do. I am too old to mug and wink in a &#8220;music video.&#8221; I am too old to play rock star on camera \u2014 especially while playing a kind of prock that was never really in fashion, not even 30 years ago. And I am too old, for crying out loud, to be pretending to play a Chapman stick. I am too old for this, and so is Robert Wegmann. He and I should just stop.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out at the once lively and exciting \u2014 now sad and slightly weird \u2014 XTC fan site, chalkhills.org, where I found a reference to the ongoing XTC-like work of a guy named Robert Wegmann. Being in possession of a fairly open mind, I headed out to the Internet to see what I could <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/tough-love-robert-wegmann\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20128"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}