{"id":1577,"date":"2008-07-21T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-21T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T13:30:43","slug":"mystery-date-a-tough-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-a-tough-one\/","title":{"rendered":"MYSTERY DATE REVEALED!  Big Country Shit Hits the Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wa-Bj9WUfTE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><blockquote><p>Congratulations to Townsman Sammymaudlin for correctly &#8212; even if a bit cheesily with that laundry list of mid-80s bands it could&#8217;ve been &#8212; ID&#8217;ing Scot-rockers Big Country.  Somewhat reluctantly, I hand over the coveted RTH No-Prize.  Congratulations, Sammy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Greetings!  Here&#8217;s a quick one for you:  who&#8217;s the band charging out of the gates with a dreadful cover of this Stones classic (click &#8220;MYSTERY DATE,&#8221; below)? This is devilishly tough, so I&#8217;ll give you a few clues:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/RTH_Mystery_Date.mp3\"><strong>MYSTERY DATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1.  That&#8217;s not the normal lead singer guy on vocals.  Obviously, the drummer, or lead guitar guy, or bassist, wanted some face time with the crowd, and this was the best they could muster.<\/p>\n<p>2.  It&#8217;s entirely possible some of you may have been at this show!<\/p>\n<p>3.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/stu-adamson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Townsman Sammymaudlin for correctly &#8212; even if a bit cheesily with that laundry list of mid-80s bands it could&#8217;ve been &#8212; ID&#8217;ing Scot-rockers Big Country. Somewhat reluctantly, I hand over the coveted RTH No-Prize. Congratulations, Sammy! Greetings! Here&#8217;s a quick one for you: who&#8217;s the band charging out of the gates with a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-a-tough-one\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}