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Today’s Mystery Date was suggested by a Townsman who may or may not choose to help me coax your opinions on this song. Thanks to our Mystery Shadchen!
Let’s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period… Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist without research. Who do you think it is? Or, Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded? Etc…
If you know who it is, don’t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the “mockcarr option.” (And I’ve got a hunch that some of you know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can’t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how in-the-know you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email Mr. Moderator at mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the Comments section.
The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, go!
[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MysteryDate012411.mp3|titles=MysteryDate012411]All day I meant to mark the 70th birthday of Rock Town Hall’s favorite hash brownie afficionado, Neil Diamond. Before this special day passes, let’s ask ourselves if Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the film version of the bizarrely massively popular book, really happened.
…must have had something to do with those brownies.


Mom!
In tonight’s edition of Saturday Night Shut-In, Mr. Moderator and his prednisone-charged airways kick out the mucous membranes before getting annoyed with former PiL guitarist Keith Levene, his 2008 non-interview, and a commentator named Charles. It’s an unfortunate, uncharacteristically unclassy end to an otherwise rockin’ show.
[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/RTH-Saturday-Night-Shut-In-12.mp3|titles=RTH Saturday Night Shut-In, episode 12][Note: The Rock Town Hall feed will enable you to easily download Saturday Night Shut-In episodes to your digital music player. In fact, you can even set your iTunes to search for an automatic download each week’s podcast.]
At first I thought the two guys who are quickly cut to a few times in this old Liz Phair video were supposed to be her backing musicians. Maybe that’s the case, but the more I watched this I couldn’t tell if they were pretending to play instruments or not. One guy looks like he’s beating on something, but I don’t see any sticks in his hand. And why are the dudes in a dark room while Liz prances about some safari adventure at Disneyworld?

