{"id":2790,"date":"2010-06-18T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-23T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:18:01","slug":"mystery-date-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s review the ground rules here. The <strong>Mystery Date<\/strong> song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period&#8230; Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist <strong><em>without research<\/em><\/strong>. <em>Who do you think it is?<\/em> Or, <em>Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded?<\/em> Etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you know who it is, don&#8217;t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the &#8220;<em>mockcarr option<\/em>.&#8221; (And I&#8217;ve got a hunch that there are a lot who know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can&#8217;t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how <em>in-the-know<\/em> you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email <strong>Mr. Moderator<\/strong> at <code>mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com<\/code>. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the <strong>Comments<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n<p>The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, <em>go!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/mysterydate061810.mp3\">Mystery Date 061810<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Although representative of the times, this tracks is not typical of the rest of the tracks on the album on which it appears, which is also keeping with the times. Also, it&#8217;s not so much the artist who&#8217;s our Mystery Date but one of the band members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period&#8230; Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-10\/' 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":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790"}],"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=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}