{"id":2130,"date":"2009-04-23T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:56:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-23T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T07:56:32","slug":"musicians-who-play-super-cool-stuff-whil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musicians-who-play-super-cool-stuff-whil\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians Who Play Super-Cool Stuff While Lacking an Even Remotely Cool Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2s0gr_DbDY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s my last bit of thoughts generated during the long, fun night opening for Richard Lloyd and The Donuts recently. As I watched some <strong>Richard Lloyd<\/strong> videos leading up to the show, thought about past live performances I&#8217;d seen of his, and then watched him live that night, it occurred to me that his guitar stance in no way supports the cool licks he whips out. He wears his guitar pretty high, which some might argue is automatically uncool. He often holds the neck up, <strong>Bill Wyman<\/strong> style, which almost everyone agrees is uncool. What I find is most uncool about the neck pointing up is what it does to the elbows: it crowds them into the check. A cool, rockin&#8217; stage stance should be about expansion, about <em>owning<\/em> the stage. Cramped elbows do not promote ownership. Check it out.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cn3I01wlZhU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy enough to pick on a musician for poor stage presence, and that&#8217;s not my point. What I really want to do is celebrate artists like Lloyd and Wyman for managing to play super-cool stuff while lacking an even remotely cool stance. Lloyd may have the stance of a Weekend Warrior, but he plays a mean guitar! Are there other artists, on whatever instruments, deserving of this recognition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my last bit of thoughts generated during the long, fun night opening for Richard Lloyd and The Donuts recently. As I watched some Richard Lloyd videos leading up to the show, thought about past live performances I&#8217;d seen of his, and then watched him live that night, it occurred to me that his guitar <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musicians-who-play-super-cool-stuff-whil\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"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=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}