{"id":15406,"date":"2012-09-08T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2012-09-08T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T15:26:25","slug":"rocks-most-distinctive-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rocks-most-distinctive-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock&#8217;s Most Distinctive Opening Chords: Identifying the Field of 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[If you&#8217;ve ever entered <strong>Rock Town Hall<\/strong> through its root URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.rocktownhall.com<\/a>, you were greeted by a Townsman strumming the opening chord of &#8220;The Kids Are Alright.&#8221; Our apologies to anyone who&#8217;s ever jumped out of his or her seat at that automatically generated sound. Those of us in <strong>The Back Office<\/strong> typically don&#8217;t support such obtrusive devices, but I think you&#8217;ll agree that it&#8217;s appropriate for our lot. <\/em><em>My apologies, more importantly, to<strong> Townsman Al<\/strong> for the long delay in posting an idea he put forth in an offlist message a few months ago. This is a worthwhile initiative to determine\u2014once and for all\u2014\u00a0rock&#8217;s most distinctive opening chord. But first&#8230;let us develop the <strong>Field of 64<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s Al to take you home. &#8211; Mr. Moderator]<\/em><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2wbNaEXmyrw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Rock seems\u00a0to have any number of single opening note\/chord that instantly\u00a0identifies the song and gets you singing it immediately. &#8220;The Kids Are Alright&#8221; is one example. Another great example is\u00a0&#8220;A Hard Day&#8217;s Night.&#8221; Or The Move&#8217;s\/ELO&#8217;s &#8220;Do Ya&#8221;\u2014or maybe that needs those 4\u00a0crunches (although one does it for me).\u00a0Anyway, I&#8217;ve never figured out a good way to structure it.<\/p>\n<p>How about a <strong>Battle Royale<\/strong>, using the Field of 64 playoff structure, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/once-and-for-all-you-decide-rocks-greatest-backing-band-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent backing band tournament<\/a>? First, let&#8217;s identify 64 worthy competitors. List your suggested competitors in this thread and hash it out with your fellow Townspeople. Next week we&#8217;ll release the brackets and let the games begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[If you&#8217;ve ever entered Rock Town Hall through its root URL: www.rocktownhall.com, you were greeted by a Townsman strumming the opening chord of &#8220;The Kids Are Alright.&#8221; Our apologies to anyone who&#8217;s ever jumped out of his or her seat at that automatically generated sound. Those of us in The Back Office typically don&#8217;t support <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rocks-most-distinctive-chord\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42,88,715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}