{"id":2575,"date":"2010-02-22T21:53:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:53:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:29:16","slug":"who-s-the-secret-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-s-the-secret-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the Secret Sauce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/secretsauce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/secretsauce.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Who&#8217;s the <strong>Secret Sauce<\/strong> in each of the following bands? You know, the not-always-obvious band member who adds that special, hard-to-define <em>something<\/em> to put their band over the top?<\/p>\n<p>This exercise doesn&#8217;t work in bands with Rock Superpowers throughout, such as The Beatles, and it won&#8217;t work in trios with a dominant member. The Secret Sauce is more likely to reside &#8211; discretely &#8211; in a larger, faceless band. Let&#8217;s try our hand at this, shall we? You don&#8217;t need to know the name of the Secret Sauce &#8211; you may simply refer to the person as &#8220;the bassist&#8221; or &#8220;the drummer.&#8221; When you&#8217;ve completed your answers\/rationales (if necessary) to as few or as many bands as you like, feel free to add your own band for Special Sauce identification. <em>Only one Secret Sauce member is allowable per band.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Band<\/li>\n<li>The Beach Boys<\/li>\n<li>Steely Dan<\/li>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>Heart<\/li>\n<li>Echo and the Bunnymen<\/li>\n<li>Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/li>\n<li>Chicago<\/li>\n<li>Pere Ubu<\/li>\n<li>The Dammed<\/li>\n<li>Jethro Tull<\/li>\n<li>REM<\/li>\n<li>Tom Petty &amp; the Heartbreakers<\/li>\n<li>New York Dolls<\/li>\n<li>Crosby, Stills, Nash, &amp; Young<\/li>\n<li>Any one of David Bowie&#8217;s backing bands<\/li>\n<li>The Byrds<\/li>\n<li>Flying Burrito Brothers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I look forward to your answers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s the Secret Sauce in each of the following bands? You know, the not-always-obvious band member who adds that special, hard-to-define something to put their band over the top? This exercise doesn&#8217;t work in bands with Rock Superpowers throughout, such as The Beatles, and it won&#8217;t work in trios with a dominant member. The Secret <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-s-the-secret-sauce\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575"}],"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=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}