{"id":2497,"date":"2010-01-06T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-06T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T17:25:09","slug":"the-ruff-tuff-guitar-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-ruff-tuff-guitar-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"The RUFF TUFF Guitar Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following piece was submitted by <strong>Townsman hissing fauna<\/strong>, making his debut on <strong>The Main Stage<\/strong>. Way to step up, Townsman, and make this casa your casa!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/wham.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">RUFF TUFF rock n&#8217; rollers here.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Somewhere deep in the forgettable mire of late-&#8217;60s Beach Boys albums is this ridiculous, hilariously misguided attempt to &#8220;rock out.&#8221; The song itself is a forgettable, fluffy pop song, but for some reason, being the lost souls they were at the time, the band decided to hire some chump named <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=894&amp;dat=19970820&amp;id=z7oKAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=gU0DAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=6434,2965698\" target=_blank>Ed Carter<\/a><\/strong> to overdub <strong>RUFF TUFF guitar parts<\/strong> into what is otherwise a goofy pop song.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CElweMY3ZQY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Of course, there are other examples of the puzzling presence of RUFF TUFF guitar parts in pop music, be it &#8220;Hungry Like the Wolf,&#8221; &#8220;Beat It,&#8221; or those weird pseudo-heavy metal riffs at the end of &#8220;Running Up That Hill,&#8221; by <strong>Kate Bush<\/strong>. The frequency of this strange conundrum is troubling, especially when one considers the motivations. Is this phenomenon the result of a misguided attempt by male artists to meet our culture\u2019s self-destructive perceptions of masculinity? Is Kate Bush and other women\u2019s similar use of RUFF TUFF guitar an attempt to bridge the gender gap in what is predominantly seen as a male genre? In short, is RUFF TUFF guitar symbolic of those disenfranchised by patriarchy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following piece was submitted by Townsman hissing fauna, making his debut on The Main Stage. Way to step up, Townsman, and make this casa your casa! RUFF TUFF rock n&#8217; rollers here. Somewhere deep in the forgettable mire of late-&#8217;60s Beach Boys albums is this ridiculous, hilariously misguided attempt to &#8220;rock out.&#8221; The song <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-ruff-tuff-guitar-conundrum\/' 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\/2497"}],"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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}