{"id":1035,"date":"2007-12-03T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-19T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:14:47","slug":"steel-cage-match-zz-top-vs-george-thorog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/steel-cage-match-zz-top-vs-george-thorog\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Cage Match: ZZ Top vs George Thorogood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWGm50p7aCQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nTownspeople,<\/p>\n<p>This is not a throwdown I can promote and take part in with even the slightest bit of pride, but upon hearing about 8 seconds of George Thorogood&#8217;s &#8220;One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer&#8221; while flipping channels on the drive in this morning, I feel compelled to book the following <strong>Steel Cage Match<\/strong>, pitting <strong>ZZ Top<\/strong> against the <strong>Delaware Destroyer<\/strong>. Hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s throw out all notions of Critical Acclaim, Authenticity, Cool, and Self-Respect. Let&#8217;s line up <strong>Team Top<\/strong> vs <strong>Team Destroyer<\/strong>, and throw in a half dozen examples of &#8220;best&#8221; songs by each artist, as chosen by each team of relative, possibly reluctant supporters, against the other in terms of <strong>Listenability<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>We will ask ourselves &#8211; and debate &#8211; <em>which artist&#8217;s best songs are easiest to listen to<\/em>, if forced to do so. <\/p>\n<p>Also, each team will have the option of choosing three <strong>&#8220;skeletons&#8221;<\/strong> from the other artist&#8217;s catalog. There may be a need, if your team finds itself &#8220;winning&#8221; this debate by positive means, of embarrassing the other team&#8217;s artist. <\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think about this. Today we can start lining up in support of one artist or the other. Maybe we start developing the list of 6 &#8220;best&#8221; songs and 3 skeletons. Then we&#8217;ll gather those audio examples and see how this plays out in the Steel Cage. <em>Are you game?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townspeople, This is not a throwdown I can promote and take part in with even the slightest bit of pride, but upon hearing about 8 seconds of George Thorogood&#8217;s &#8220;One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer&#8221; while flipping channels on the drive in this morning, I feel compelled to book the following Steel Cage Match, pitting <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/steel-cage-match-zz-top-vs-george-thorog\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[61,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}