# Musically, why does Roseanne Cash give guitarist the evil eye in this Seven Year Ache video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432 "2019-07-03T02:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/1 "2019-07-03T02:52:13Z")
Great song, with a video apparently shot at a concert at a junior high school auditorium- looking uncannily like Joannie Cunningham she is bopping around happily during the break but at around 1:07 she starts to stare him down and I think catches his eye at 1:18 and gives him a nasty glare and a head shake- can anyone discern why? Showing off perhaps? Thanks! I doubt the video is live, but maybe the shots of him have clues? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/2 "2019-07-03T03:00:30Z")
I think she’s just trying to show emotion, like “Dang, that’s some sweet music.” ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/3 "2019-07-03T03:03:43Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think she’s just trying to show emotion, like “Dang, that’s some sweet music.” She definitely gives a backup singer a smile of approval for nailing a sweet note at 1:40:) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/4 "2019-07-03T04:41:03Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think she’s just trying to show emotion, like “Dang, that’s some sweet music.” This is what I think too. The shake of the head is rhythmic, not disapproving. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/5 "2019-07-03T04:47:49Z")
I have nothing to add to the question from the OP. But…bob’s girl loves this song. Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/6 "2019-07-03T04:52:58Z")
I suspect the guy playing lead flubbed a few notes. Roseanne gives him a ‘not again’ look & head shake. I don’t know the song and that lead part well enough to hear anything obviously wrong. She’s touring with that band and knows where the guitarist sometimes screws up. Just my 2 cents. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/7 "2019-07-03T09:45:10Z")
It’s not the guitarist who’s soloing, it’s the pedal steel guitarist, who’s not in the shot. And there are no flubbed notes. It’s just a nod in time with the music. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/8 "2019-07-03T09:55:23Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I have nothing to add to the question from the OP. But…bob’s girl loves this song. Just sayin’ She does?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/9 "2019-07-03T10:24:34Z")
She’s looking at the steel player who has the solo. I don’t hear any clunkers at all. Roseanne Cash is a professional, and wouldn’t obviously react to someone’s mistake in a live performance, no matter how bad. She’s wagging her head for the same reason as others are clapping or dancing – for the rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/10 "2019-07-03T12:19:33Z")
Agree with the above. I see how it can look like a dirty look, but, if it really were, why in the heck would they leave that in the video? And I don’t hear anything wrong musically at all. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/11 "2019-07-03T13:15:49Z")
Off-topic, but isn’t it refreshing to hear a singer with a “grown-up woman” voice? ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/12 "2019-07-03T14:11:04Z")
Thanks all, and regarding flubbed notes, it is my understanding they are clearly playing live, but the track is the studio single track, so anything he did wrong in the performance would not be heard in the video. Is this correct, or can someone tell if the single was recorded straight from this performance? ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/13 "2019-07-03T14:12:05Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > Off-topic, but isn’t it refreshing to hear a singer with a “grown-up woman” voice? Agree, that is a real woman doing real woman singing! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/14 "2019-07-03T14:35:39Z")
> [@Helmut\_Doork](#): > > Thanks all, and regarding flubbed notes, it is my understanding they are clearly playing live, but the track is the studio single track, so anything he did wrong in the performance would not be heard in the video. Is this correct, or can someone tell if the single was recorded straight from this performance? It does appear the version being played as audio is [the studio version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUs_FWqj9s) (I actually was wondering whether the audio went faithfully with the video, but didn’t bother to check.) So, that being the case, who the heck knows–as we don’t have the audio to go along with it, and I wonder, if she was mad at somebody for something, why they bothered to edit that particular shot in. I’m guessing they didn’t see it as an “angry look.” ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/15 "2019-07-03T14:46:58Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > It does appear the version being played as audio is [the studio version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUs_FWqj9s) (I actually was wondering whether the audio went faithfully with the video, but didn’t bother to check.) > > So, that being the case, who the heck knows–as we don’t have the audio to go along with it, and I wonder, if she was mad at somebody for something, why they bothered to edit that particular shot in. I’m guessing they didn’t see it as an “angry look.” thanks! I took it as angry because it was coupled with a head shake, and right before and right after when she is dancing around she is smiling, but not then. And at 1:40 when the backup singer nails a note, she reacts approvingly in that case with a smile. Yes if a different track no sure way of knowing, I couldn’t tell if there were clues from the shots of him if was showing off, not taking it seriously, etc. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/16 "2019-07-03T15:08:23Z")
> [@Helmut\_Doork](#): > > thanks! I took it as angry because it was coupled with a head shake, and right before and right after when she is dancing around she is smiling, but not then. And at 1:40 when the backup singer nails a note, she reacts approvingly in that case with a smile. > > Yes if a different track no sure way of knowing, I couldn’t tell if there were clues from the shots of him if was showing off, not taking it seriously, etc. You couldn’t see him play the solo as, as said above, it’s the sitting slide guitar player that is playing it, not the standing guitarist. And who knows exactly where that cut came from. The video itself is spliced a bunch: note that, for example, you have a fairly wide closeup shot from under cash at 0:44, which would have required the camera man to be close to her (it’s not shot from afar with a telephoto lens), and then at 0:48, there’s a medium distance shot, with no cameraman to be seen. The part you’re talking about looks to be a similar splice. Other than the fact that you would see the cameraman in the shot right before the closeup with the dirty look, note which hands she is holding the microphone in before and after the splice. At 1:14 her mic is in her right hand. In 1:15, in the left hand. ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/17 "2019-07-03T15:11:37Z")
thanks! I didn’t notice that about the video, I assumed it was one take! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/18 "2019-07-03T15:44:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > At 1:14 her mic is in her right hand. In 1:15, in the left hand. Umm, the other way around I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/19 "2019-07-03T19:12:21Z")
Well, she’s no [Buddy Rich](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-uoTD4fMQ). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-why-does-roseanne-cash-give-guitarist-the-evil-eye-in-this-seven-year-ache-video/836432/20 "2019-07-03T19:26:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The part you’re talking about looks to be a similar splice. Other than the fact that you would see the cameraman in the shot right before the closeup with the dirty look, note which hands she is holding the microphone in before and after the splice. At 1:14 her mic is in her right hand. In 1:15, in the left hand. Same thing at the end of the vocals. She finishes the last chorus with the mic in her left hand, about 5 feet from the stand. The next instant the mic is on the stand and she is still 5 feet away. Just your typical “faked concert” video of a studio cut. Millions of them out there.