{"id":24161,"date":"2021-03-22T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24161"},"modified":"2021-03-22T08:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:57:21","slug":"rth-labs-needs-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-labs-needs-you\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Labs Needs You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Turbo Encabulator&quot; the Original\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ac7G7xOG2Ag?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, gang! I just got off the phone with Milo T. Frobisher, the big cheese over at RTH Labs, and he asked me to pass this along: apparently, RTH Labs is trying to develop a set of quantitative rules\/frames of reference for the analysis of how well live music is performed, depending on the age of both the performer and the audience &#8212; and the relative statistical intersection of those data cohorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does this mean for you? Well, what RTH Labs needs is the year of your birth, followed by a short list of the live rock shows you&#8217;ve seen, the years you saw them, and a numerical assessment of the quality of the shows you witnessed (1-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Frobisher acknowledges that a full accounting of all shows from all artists would be prohibitively time-consuming \u2014 and would likely result in an excess amount of non-repeating data that would be impossible to cross-tabulate across the RTH community. So what RTH Labs is looking for are data for shows performed by the following British rock dinosaur bands\/artists only:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The Rolling Stones<\/li><li>Solo Beatles<\/li><li>The Kinks<\/li><li>Led Zeppelin<\/li><li>The Who<\/li><li>Pink Floyd<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for example, my response would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>HVB: 1964<\/li><li>Solo Beatles &#8211; Paul McCartney: 2006, 7 rock quality points (RQP); 2008, 5 RQP<\/li><li>Kinks: 1992-ish, 3 RQP<\/li><li>The Who: 1984, 5 RQP; 2007, 7 RQP<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s that simple \u2014 unless you prefer to provide any footnotes that might shed light on your RQP assessment. (For example, I might choose to mention that <strong>Townsman Mockcarr<\/strong> and I were flummoxed by the Kinks&#8217; choice to incorporate a lone dancer into their show, dressed in ballet taffeta, doing all the artsy swoops and swishes one might expect to see in a high school dance recital, as the band plunked away in the foreground. She would appear at random intervals above and behind the stage, leaping from one side to the other, a high kick here, a deft twirl there, for no discernible reason.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will you lend a hand? Milo assures me the data will reveal some interesting patterns worthy of further discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, gang! I just got off the phone with Milo T. Frobisher, the big cheese over at RTH Labs, and he asked me to pass this along: apparently, RTH Labs is trying to develop a set of quantitative rules\/frames of reference for the analysis of how well live music is performed, depending on the age <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-labs-needs-you\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161"}],"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=24161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}