{"id":2760,"date":"2010-05-27T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-27T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:03:01","slug":"can-we-at-least-fix-the-tiny-dancer-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/can-we-at-least-fix-the-tiny-dancer-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We At Least Fix the &#8220;Tiny Dancer&#8221; Scene?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7Qn3tel9FWU]<br \/>\nAs some of you may recall, I can&#8217;t stand Cameron Crowe&#8217;s semi-autobiographical rock flick <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-explain-motorhead-aka-rock-s-long#c41320\" target=blank>Almost Famous<\/a><\/em>. Among the many scenes that didn&#8217;t work for me is the key tour bus party sing-along to Elton John&#8217;s &#8220;Tiny Dancer.&#8221; I have to think that even rock fans of that film found that an especially wimpy and unrealistic song over which the fictional hard rock band would unite.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming you agree that a more appropriate song was needed, <em>what song would you have chosen for this scene?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAlthough not nearly as popular or upbeat, I just got done listening to <strong>Van Morrison<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Dominic's_Preview_(song)\" target=_blank>&#8220;St. Dominic&#8217;s Preview&#8221;<\/a> while reflecting on the exciting comeback my boys soccer team made in their final game, overcoming a 3-0 deficit with 12 minutes left to dash the dreams of another team contending for the division title. The game ended in a tie, but that says a lot about my perspective on life. We felt extremely proud as even that fictional band in that ass-kissing movie should have felt. I would have had that busload of rockers singing along to &#8220;St. Dominic&#8217;s Preview.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7Qn3tel9FWU] As some of you may recall, I can&#8217;t stand Cameron Crowe&#8217;s semi-autobiographical rock flick Almost Famous. Among the many scenes that didn&#8217;t work for me is the key tour bus party sing-along to Elton John&#8217;s &#8220;Tiny Dancer.&#8221; I have to think that even rock fans of that film found that an especially wimpy and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/can-we-at-least-fix-the-tiny-dancer-scene\/' 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":[],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}