{"id":777,"date":"2007-08-08T22:24:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T02:24:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:57:16","slug":"can-it-get-less-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/can-it-get-less-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Can it get less interesting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8230;than <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> playing a solo acoustic show?<\/em><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Qd4RGTQxf4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nMaybe I need to clarify this question. There are the acoustic albums: <em>Nebraska<\/em> and <em>The Ghost of Tom Joad<\/em>, the latter exposing how boring the former really was. That&#8217;s all right, though, if you&#8217;re not comfortable liking one of the decent, somewhat rocking Bruce Springsteen album that the sweaty masses love. I&#8217;m pretty sure I know which of you dig <em>Nebraska<\/em>, and for today&#8217;s discussion, I&#8217;ll grant you a pass.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m interested in knowing if anything in rock is <strong>less interesting<\/strong> than a solo Bruce Springsteen show. We get some high-def music channel that shows the same four programs: a Green Day concert, some &#8220;Honors&#8221; concert for Heart, a concert with Bon Jovi jamming with country artists, and Springsteen playing a solo and acoustc. The concert reeks of that <em>Tom Joad<\/em> period. <strong>The Boss<\/strong> is dressed in black. His muscular stubby arms are awkwardly wrapped around his acoustic guitar. (<em>Discussion for another day:<\/em> Can muscles and guitars coexist?) He mumbles unintelligibly through every damn song! Can Springsteen ever perform one of his songs in an acoustic, solo setting as if he&#8217;s not praying in hoarse, hushed tones at 2:00 am, so as not to wake his cellmate? Is it not enough that he&#8217;s already The Boss, does he really need to be <strong>E.F. Hutton<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>So this is why I ask if it can get less interesting than Bruce Springsteen playing a solo acoustic show. Surely there are <em>worse<\/em> shows and artists to see, but what the hell does one focus on when seeing Bruce solo? I would imagine it would be so boring I couldn&#8217;t even cut up on him.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;than Bruce Springsteen playing a solo acoustic show? Maybe I need to clarify this question. There are the acoustic albums: Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad, the latter exposing how boring the former really was. That&#8217;s all right, though, if you&#8217;re not comfortable liking one of the decent, somewhat rocking Bruce Springsteen album that <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/can-it-get-less-interesting\/' 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":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}