{"id":1894,"date":"2008-12-23T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T19:34:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-24T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:23:00","slug":"dugout-chatter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dugout-chatter-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Dugout Chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/dugout400x400.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/dugout400x400.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>If you don&#8217;t know the drill by now, you must be new to the Halls of Rock. Welcome! This is likely our final <strong>Dugout Chatter<\/strong> of 2008, in which I pose a handful of puzzling rock queries in search of your <strong>gut responses<\/strong>. Those who think too hard risk crashing their computer. Those who don&#8217;t think at all risk not receiving an invitation to 2009&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/02\/13\/the_rth_rock_and_roll_foyer_of_fame_pres\">Rock &#8216;n Roll Foyer of Fame&#8217;s Annual Partial Lifetime Achievement Award and Chili Cookoff<\/a><\/strong>. A baker&#8217;s dozen of Dugout Chatter questions follow; feel free to revisit these through the final week of 2008 and answer in small chunks. You may proceed to the next page and let loose with your true feelings!<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n1. What&#8217;s your favorite album featuring <strong>livestock<\/strong> on the album cover?<\/p>\n<p>2. As a whole, which band&#8217;s members made better <strong>guest contributions<\/strong> to other artists&#8217; records, The Beatles or The Stones?<\/p>\n<p>3. What&#8217;s your favorite use of <strong>cartoon graphics<\/strong> on an album cover?<\/p>\n<p>4. Do you or have you ever owned a <strong>rock mirror<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>5. What album <strong>meant the most<\/strong> to you in 2008 (it need not be a new album)?<\/p>\n<p>6. What singer&#8217;s voice makes you <em>melt<\/em> almost as soon as you hear it?<\/p>\n<p>7. Among the guest contributions by members of The Beatles and The Stones, what <strong>particular contribution<\/strong> is your favorite?<\/p>\n<p>8. John or Andy Taylor?<\/p>\n<p>9. If you had to form a 4-piece band using only musicians with the <strong>same first name<\/strong>, who would constitute your band?<\/p>\n<p>10. When you think <strong>&#8220;sweaters in rock&#8221;<\/strong> what&#8217;s the first rockin&#8217; sweater that comes to mind?<\/p>\n<p>11. What&#8217;s your favorite dance song modeled and titled after an <strong>animal<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>12. Above all else, <em>what did Rock Town Hall turn you onto in 2008<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>13. Could any 4-piece band composed of unrelated musicians with the same <strong>surname<\/strong> top <strong>The Thomases<\/strong> (Rufus, Pete, Bruce, and Timmy, of &#8220;Why Can&#8217;t We Live Together&#8221; fame)? Perhaps, but state your case!<\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know the drill by now, you must be new to the Halls of Rock. Welcome! This is likely our final Dugout Chatter of 2008, in which I pose a handful of puzzling rock queries in search of your gut responses. Those who think too hard risk crashing their computer. Those who don&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dugout-chatter-5\/' 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":[45,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"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=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}