{"id":2880,"date":"2010-08-03T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:34:13","slug":"our-rock-s-in-jeopardy-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/our-rock-s-in-jeopardy-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Rock’s in Jeopardy, Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While I was washing my car today, AC\/DC<\/strong> came on the radio. This was the Bon Scott-era AC\/DC, not the Brian Johnson version, which I consider to be superior. Anyway, it occurred to me that Bon Scott is the answer to a burning<\/em> Rock and Roll Question: “What would it sound like if Bob Dylan fronted a hard-rock band?”<\/p>\n

Since most of us are approaching the age where curling up with Trebek is going to be a dominant form of entertainment, this format shouldn’t be too hard to get: 1) Set us up with the answer to the Question, 2) then fill us in on the answer when the suspense is killing us.<\/p>\n

Here’s another example:<\/p>\n

A: The Goo Goo Dolls.
\nQ: What would the Replacements sound like if they kinda sucked and got really famous?<\/p>\n

And yet another:<\/p>\n

A: The Brian Johnson-led AC\/DC
\nQ: What would it sound like if Marge Simpson sang lead in a hard-rock band?<\/p>\n

You get the format; this is Rock and Roll Jeopardy<\/em>. We’ll open the board, but first let’s meet our contestants. First, we have this nerdy guy from Philadelphia who once got stuck in an elevator…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I was washing my car today, AC\/DC came on the radio. This was the Bon Scott-era AC\/DC, not the Brian Johnson version, which I consider to be superior. Anyway, it occurred to me that Bon Scott is the answer to a burning Rock and Roll Question: “What would it sound like if Bob Dylan […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880"}],"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\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}