{"id":1758,"date":"2008-10-25T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T10:48:47","slug":"a-classic-rock-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-classic-rock-riddle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Classic Rock Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/frank_gorshin_riddler3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Twice in the last week, I punched up the local &#8220;classic rock&#8221; station on the car radio, and *twice* heard the exact same song the moment I switched to the station.  I&#8217;ve attached an audio collage of snippets from the tune, processed a bit to do a decent job of masking the artist in question.  Your task:  summon all you know about classic rock playlists &#8212; and tune your nerdy earbulbs &#8212; then tell me the artist and the song in question.  First correct answer gets a coveted RTH No-Prize, and the opportunity to rant at length about how totally lame today&#8217;s &#8220;classic rock&#8221; playlists are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/RTH_Mystery_3.mp3\">Here&#8217;s the collage I offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p>Postscript:  please note that these two times I tuned in the classic rock station were the *only* two times I&#8217;d tuned to the damn station in about three years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice in the last week, I punched up the local &#8220;classic rock&#8221; station on the car radio, and *twice* heard the exact same song the moment I switched to the station. I&#8217;ve attached an audio collage of snippets from the tune, processed a bit to do a decent job of masking the artist in question. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-classic-rock-riddle\/' 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":[208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758"}],"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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}