{"id":7093,"date":"2011-05-10T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2011-05-10T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T02:43:07","slug":"rth-confessional-rock-schoolyard-bullying-on-the-giving-and-receiving-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-confessional-rock-schoolyard-bullying-on-the-giving-and-receiving-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Confessional: Rock Schoolyard Bullying, on the Giving and Receiving Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I would imagine we’ve all been on the receiving end of what I call Rock Schoolyard Bullying<\/strong> at some point or another in our musical development. Perhaps some Classic Rocker upper classman called you a “pussy” for liking punk rock or New Wave or Disco or whatever. Or maybe some\u00a0asshole blogger once “outed” you for\u00a0professing to like Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>‘s Nebraska<\/em>\u00a0while claiming\u00a0you’re a cliche for professing to love that album while having long been too cool for school to admit liking any of The Boss’ popular works.\u00a0Those rock bullies really get my goat!<\/p>\n

I have, however, been guilty of acts of rock schoolyard bullying. I know this confession may shock you. To illustrate an experience I had on the giving end of this\u00a0regrettable dynamic, here’s an excerpt from a longer piece I have in the works:<\/p>\n

The rhythm of music has helped me better understand my own rhythm and the rhythm of others. \u201cWhat makes that guy tick?\u201d I\u2019ve asked myself a few thousand times over the years. If he\u2019s a music lover to any degree I may be able to quickly home in on his Inner Metronome and reach a level of intimacy that two dudes may not otherwise reach so easily. I have to tread with caution, though. Snap judgments and insults based on an artist he initially expresses as a favorite that I don\u2019t like won\u2019t help. I still regret walking into a party in my mid-20s, with a roomful of people I barely knew, being immediately cornered by a perfectly excited fellow music fan who wanted to make a connection, and then bluntly telling him his favorite local band of the moment \u201csucked.\u201d It would have been better form had I simply shoved him against the wall and sucker punched him. Sorry, man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you have a memorable moment of rock schoolyard bullying you feel needs sharing, be it on the giving or receiving end? I trust much healing<\/em> will ensue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would imagine we’ve all been on the receiving end of what I call Rock Schoolyard Bullying at some point or another in our musical development. Perhaps some Classic Rocker upper classman called you a “pussy” for liking punk rock or New Wave or Disco or whatever. Or maybe some\u00a0asshole blogger once “outed” you for\u00a0professing […]<\/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":[133,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093"}],"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=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}