{"id":188,"date":"2006-02-20T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2006-02-20T19:21:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T01:21:59","slug":"old-rockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/old-rockers\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Rockers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems like there are already lots of rockers here at MRC.  Well, rest assured you are not alone.  Check out this article: The fantasy rocks on<\/a>.  It appeared in this week’s Pacific Northwest Magazine<\/strong>.  Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

THERE SHE SITS, leaning against the bed, beckoning me to caress her supple neck and curvy body.<\/p>\n

She’s foreign and high-strung, for sure, but I can’t resist her classic beauty, twangy accent and bright personality.<\/p>\n

She is a Fender Telecaster, and, thanks to her, I’m part of a global phenomenon.<\/p>\n

I’m a baby boomer who has taken up guitar-playing in midlife. In Japan, they’ve got a term for us middle-aged rockers: “Oyaji.” Geezers. Here in the states, we’re called important \u00e2\u0080\u0094 at least to the guitar industry, if no one else.<\/p>\n

Guitar sales in the U.S. have tripled in the past decade, from 1.1 million in 1995 to 3.3 million in 2004, according to Brian Majeski, editor of Music Trades magazine, which has tracked instrument sales for more than a century.<\/p>\n

While no definitive demographic data exists on who’s buying those guitars, Majeski says anecdotal evidence suggests we’re key. Andy Aldrich, owner of American Music in Fremont, calls graying guitarists the “bedrock” of his business.<\/p>\n

We’re the generation that made the guitar an icon, and now we have an itch \u00e2\u0080\u0094 as well as the scratch \u00e2\u0080\u0094 to stop strumming tennis rackets and pick up the real things.
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It goes on to talk about the intimidation of guitar stores among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seems like there are already lots of rockers here at MRC.  Well, rest assured you are not alone.  Check out this article: The fantasy rocks on.  It appeared in this week’s Pacific Northwest Magazine.  Here’s an excerpt: THERE SHE SITS, leaning against the bed, beckoning me to caress her supple neck and curvy body. She’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}