{"id":484059,"date":"2019-03-29T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=815270"},"modified":"2019-03-29T20:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:19:02","slug":"the-cure-run-through-classics-in-exhilarating-rock-hall-induction-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-cure-run-through-classics-in-exhilarating-rock-hall-induction-set\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cure Run Through Classics in Exhilarating Rock Hall Induction Set"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cure<\/a> took the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> induction ceremony stage as they always have: with searing riffs cutting through the smoke. The stage was dark when the band kicked things off with The Top\u2019s <\/em>hard-hitting \u201cShake Dog Shake\u201d; the band members\u2019 silhouettes dancing behind them.<\/p>\n

Then the angular array of lights turned green, and an eerie keyboard part signaled the start of \u201cA Forest,\u201d off their Seventeen Seconds<\/em> album from 1980. Negative black and white footage of a woods scene played behind the group as Smith\u2019s guitar wooshed to the beat. By the end of the song, Smith was pushing high up the neck of his guitar for its squeakiest notes.<\/p>\n

Then the sound of his instrument changed to a jangly echo, and his drummer cued the beat to Disintegration\u2019s<\/em> \u201cLovesong.\u201d Smith\u2019s voice rang out, \u201cI will always love you,\u201d as the final chord wrung out. They then kicked up the tempo for \u201cJust Like Heaven,\u201d and the stage washed blue over the group. Women were doing wild dances between expensive tables on the dance floor and the cheap seats bellowed along with Smith.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got time for about one more,\u201d Smith told the crowd as he strummed a black guitar with a white star on its face. The crowd cheered and a springy lead guitar signaled the start of \u201cBoys Don\u2019t Cry.\u201d As the screen behind them showed photos from throughout their career, you could feel an emotional swell in the audience that suggested the song\u2019s title wasn\u2019t really true. And with a sweet thank you and a coy bite of his lip, Smith & Co. left the stage.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> following news of the Cure\u2019s Rock Hall induction, the band\u2019s former drummer-keyboardist Lol Tolhurst said he was hopeful to rejoin Smith onstage. \u201cThe jury is out about what might happen at the actual ceremony, but I\u2019m looking for some surprises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always hear from people how much the Cure touched their lives,\u201d Tolhurst added. \u201cObviously it\u2019s nice for people to say that something you\u2019ve done has meant something to them, but on a personal level it\u2019s humbling if you take it in the right way because otherwise you can let your ego go completely ridiculous. That\u2019s not really what I want to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cure\u2019s victory lap will continue this summer with a slot at the 2019 Glastonbury festival<\/a>. The band is also reportedly finishing work on their new album, their first since 2008\u2019s 4:13 Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cure took the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony stage as they always have: with searing riffs cutting through the smoke. The stage was dark when the band kicked things off with The Top\u2019s hard-hitting \u201cShake Dog Shake\u201d; the band members\u2019 silhouettes dancing behind them. Then the angular array of lights turned green, and an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 06:53:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}