{"id":2379,"date":"2009-10-20T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-20T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T08:27:37","slug":"hard-rockin-keepers-of-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hard-rockin-keepers-of-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Rockin&#8217; Keepers of Harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j6o9JNSutnU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t follow much modern music, so perhaps this theory is completely <em>whack<\/em>, but is the tradition of harmony singing in rock best maintained by hard rock bands? With the exception of overtly harmony singing-based bands like <strong>Fleet Foxes<\/strong> I don&#8217;t hear a great commitment to harmonies in indie rock. Much of hip-hop has abandoned melody let alone harmony singing. The &#8220;boy band&#8221; phenomenon is dead, right? Modern-day power pop doesn&#8217;t really count because no more than 800 people buy that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>If my 3 minutes of reflection and analysis are correct, since <strong>Queen<\/strong> and then <strong>Van Halen<\/strong> cemented a place for harmony singing in hard rock there&#8217;s been no turning back. Next to the Spandex and hair spray, that entire &#8217;80s Hair Metal era was marked by tight harmony singing more than the killer guitar riffs on which metal was originally built. Hard rockers have become the keepers of harmony singing in rock.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MEvpreZcAfI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe theory that boxing has gone downhill ever since big, athletic guys from poor backgrounds have realized they can get football and basketball scholarships rather than directly entering into human animal abuse can be applied to power pop and hard rock. In the &#8217;80s, with the dream of Beatlemania over, multi-talented, extroverted musicians realized they&#8217;d be better off beefing up their tight, tuneful, harmony-dependent pop music in stacks of Marshall amps and <strong>Ed Stasium<\/strong>-engineered arena rock-worthy drums and cashing in\/getting laid for once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t follow much modern music, so perhaps this theory is completely whack, but is the tradition of harmony singing in rock best maintained by hard rock bands? With the exception of overtly harmony singing-based bands like Fleet Foxes I don&#8217;t hear a great commitment to harmonies in indie rock. Much of hip-hop has abandoned <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hard-rockin-keepers-of-harmony\/' 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\/2379"}],"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=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}