{"id":230,"date":"2007-02-06T07:02:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-06T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T10:13:12","slug":"hope-i-die-before-they-get-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hope-i-die-before-they-get-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope I Die Before They Get Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/townhallpsychderelict.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"531\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Maturity. That tricky process that any rock musician is faced with at some point. A band that never matures, or grows in some way, ends up the worst type of charicature, the kind that give credence to each generation of parents who complain about &#8220;that racket&#8221; their kids are listening to. See <strong>The Ramones<\/strong> shortly following <em>End of the Century<\/em> and <em>Rock &#8216;n Roll High School<\/em> as Example A. They would go on to give &#8220;youth culture&#8221; a bad name for the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare that your favorite band matures at a rate that fans can keep up with. Sometimes the artist actually is going through &#8220;growing pains&#8221; that rightfully leave fans scratching their heads or storming out of concerts grumbling, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t come here to see #%@@&amp;$^$@#$ing Mariah Carey!&#8221; (grumbled by <strong>Townsman Ken<\/strong> at Elvis Costello&#8217;s <em>Mighty Like a Turd Tour<\/em>). Other times the artist simply grows up before their audience can figure out exactly what&#8217;s going on. Bob Dylan plugging in may be the best example of this phenomenon; I wonder if old <strong>Tom Waits<\/strong> fans felt this way when <em>Swordfishtrombones<\/em> came out. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s been your experience with favorite artists &#8220;maturing&#8221; before your eyes? Have you kept pace with them, caught up with them later, decided you simply didn&#8217;t like what they were up to, pouted and sucked your thumb instead? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maturity. That tricky process that any rock musician is faced with at some point. A band that never matures, or grows in some way, ends up the worst type of charicature, the kind that give credence to each generation of parents who complain about &#8220;that racket&#8221; their kids are listening to. See The Ramones shortly <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hope-i-die-before-they-get-old\/' 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\/230"}],"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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}