{"id":2345,"date":"2009-09-28T22:29:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T02:29:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:00:50","slug":"no-crying-in-rock-n-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/no-crying-in-rock-n-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"No Crying in Rock &#8216;n Roll?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rWoD2sQ9LiU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAlthough we&#8217;re familiar with claims to the effect that &#8220;There&#8217;s no crying in baseball!&#8221; we&#8217;ve seen evidence to the contrary. The same goes for all the other macho athletes out there. They&#8217;re way more sensitive than we&#8217;ve been led to believe.<\/p>\n<p>I got to wondering about his this might apply to rock &#8216;n roll. In an artform the prides itself on <em>free and deep expression<\/em>, can you cite times in which rock &#8216;n rollers have cried in public, especially onstage, after a riveting performance? Non-rockers who can manufacture a solitary teardrop during the final arpeggio of a tender ballad don&#8217;t count. Sorry, <strong>Christina Aguilera<\/strong> fans. I&#8217;m talking real rock &#8216;n rollers, or even singer-songwriters who&#8217;ve long been established as residents of <em>Rock<\/em> bins across the world. For instance, has <strong>James Taylor<\/strong> ever cried at the conclusion of &#8220;Fire and Rain?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If ever there was a time for rock &#8216;n roll tears I&#8217;d think it would be a landmark farewell show, like <em>The Last Waltz<\/em>. However, I&#8217;ve seen that film at least 100 times, and I don&#8217;t recall anyone shedding even a solitary tear. There were some puffy eyes, but wasn&#8217;t that the coke crying? <del>Likewise, I don&#8217;t recall anyone crying in the otherwise super-sensitive <strong>Metallica<\/strong> group therapy movie&#8212;my own tears as a viewer excluded.<\/del> Now that Metallica documentary allowed for some rock &#8216;n roll teardrops. (<em>Mad props<\/em> to <strong>Townsman shawnkilroy<\/strong> for reminding me of this touching scene.)<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XfFjNGW79tI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I don&#8217;t recall <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong> ever crying onstage. Are you telling me not even Freddie Mercury could muster an onstage tear?<\/p>\n<p>Even off stage, in those <em>VH1 Behind the Music<\/em> episodes, do we ever see a member of Aerosmith crying over the wasted years before the band&#8217;s sobriety and return to the top of the charts?<\/p>\n<p>Surely I&#8217;m forgetting an obvious instance of a rock &#8216;n roller crying on (or even off) stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we&#8217;re familiar with claims to the effect that &#8220;There&#8217;s no crying in baseball!&#8221; we&#8217;ve seen evidence to the contrary. The same goes for all the other macho athletes out there. They&#8217;re way more sensitive than we&#8217;ve been led to believe. I got to wondering about his this might apply to rock &#8216;n roll. In <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/no-crying-in-rock-n-roll\/' 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\/2345"}],"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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}