{"id":2400,"date":"2009-11-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-02T01:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T01:39:20","slug":"what-s-the-scariest-image-you-ve-ever-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-s-the-scariest-image-you-ve-ever-se\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Scariest Image You&#8217;ve Ever Seen in Rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/kateleotard.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"595\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Foreshadowing of my complete lack of interest in Flashdance<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I may have mentioned this once before, as a 15-year-old boy watching <em>The Last Waltz<\/em> in a theater when it came out, the image of <strong>Joni Mitchell<\/strong> in all her silken, dewy womanhood in that long skirt and leotard terrified me. For some reason it was more woman on a stage with rock musicians than I could handle. Around the same time I saw <strong>Kate Bush<\/strong> for the first time, on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. If memory serves she was wearing a leotard and those floppy socks that you see ballet dancers wear when they&#8217;re working out. Or was she wearing that <em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> lion suit from one of her early albums? I think she was lounging on a piano. Because this is a visual-based thread, I won&#8217;t get into that voice, but again, too much woman &#8211; or more likely, since I later woud find both Mitchell and Bush kind of hot, too much leotard or <em>Cats<\/em> costuming.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, to this day, those are the scariest images I&#8217;ve seen in rock. <em>What frightening rock image has been stuck in your mind all these years?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreshadowing of my complete lack of interest in Flashdance I may have mentioned this once before, as a 15-year-old boy watching The Last Waltz in a theater when it came out, the image of Joni Mitchell in all her silken, dewy womanhood in that long skirt and leotard terrified me. For some reason it was <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-s-the-scariest-image-you-ve-ever-se\/' 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\/2400"}],"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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}