{"id":828,"date":"2007-08-28T03:06:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T07:06:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T09:14:22","slug":"what-a-drag-it-is-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-a-drag-it-is-getting-old\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What a drag it is getting old&#8230;.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/admin\/americangothic.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"250\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The other day I was reading a review in Mojo of Ian Hunter\u2019s latest album.  The review was basically positive, but at the end the reviewer claimed that Hunter hadn&#8217;t quite made the record he was capable of, the kind of album that had revived the careers of other \u201cmiddle-aged rockers.\u201d  I did a double-take and looked it up \u2013 Ian Hunter is 68 years old.  <\/p>\n<p>So have boomers redefined middle-age so that it lasts all the way to 70 now?  Or are rockers not subject to the age classifications that the rest of us live with.  I remember years ago sending my little brother a birthday card on his 30th birthday saying \u2018welcome to middle age,\u2019 and he scoffed at the idea that middle age began at 30.  I guess I thought it was 30 until 50.  Now that I\u2019m over 50, I definitely do not feel middle aged anymore, but I always felt like an old man even when I was younger.  (One of my mother\u2019s nicknames for me was Grandpa.)<\/p>\n<p>I understand that rock &amp; roll is historically a youth-based culture, but can\u2019t we get beyond that now that the boomers are all grown up?  I\u2019m embarrassed every time I see an aging rocker with dyed hair.  There\u2019s this huge demographic bubble of us out here.  Shouldn\u2019t we want music that reflects our experience?  Nick Lowe looks and sings like a man who is the age he is, but other musicians in his age range seem to prefer taking nostalgia to the bank, even if it means a trip to the colorist every week.  <\/p>\n<p>Are there any signs that Generation X and its successors will do any better at this aging thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was reading a review in Mojo of Ian Hunter\u2019s latest album. The review was basically positive, but at the end the reviewer claimed that Hunter hadn&#8217;t quite made the record he was capable of, the kind of album that had revived the careers of other \u201cmiddle-aged rockers.\u201d I did a double-take <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-a-drag-it-is-getting-old\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}