{"id":14326,"date":"2012-07-04T00:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T04:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2012-07-04T00:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T04:45:18","slug":"how-many-licks-does-it-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/how-many-licks-does-it-take\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Licks Does It Take?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiC__IjCa2s?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>A friend of mine posted this on his FB page (his band was included!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5922848\/sixty-years-of-rock-n-roll-summed-up-in-100-famous-guitar-riffs\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gawker.com\/5922848\/sixty-years-of-rock-n-roll-summed-up-in-100-famous-guitar-riffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this to be a highly entertaining trip through the last 40 years.  I had a little difficulty with numbers 89-92 or so, but was happy to wear my RTH Badge of Rock Knowledge and was able to recognize and name most of the riffs included.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m a guitar neophyte (still at a very avid Beginner level on <em>Guitar Hero<\/em>) and can&#8217;t really comment on 1. the dude&#8217;s skill and 2.  whether he played the licks in the keys they were originally written.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of this of medley of 100 guitar licks? Is it sufficiently inclusive?  Are their any that really don&#8217;t belong or any songs that unfairly missed the cut?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Previously:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/songs-you-play-in-music-stores-to-test-o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Songs You Play in Music Stores&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine posted this on his FB page (his band was included!): http:\/\/gawker.com\/5922848\/sixty-years-of-rock-n-roll-summed-up-in-100-famous-guitar-riffs I found this to be a highly entertaining trip through the last 40 years. I had a little difficulty with numbers 89-92 or so, but was happy to wear my RTH Badge of Rock Knowledge and was able to recognize <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/how-many-licks-does-it-take\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[596,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}