The Rock Town Hall game anyone can play gets easier than ever with a special word-association edition. The rules are simple: give your first music-related response that pops into your head to the following list of words. It can be an artist’s name, a song, an instrument, an album title, a subgenre, you name it. All we ask is that it’s the first musically relevant word that pops into your head. Are you ready? Let’s get it on…after the jump!
Easy as 1-2-3. Simple as do-re-mi. That’s how easy this little game can be.
Here’s all you got to do: I’ll start with a line from a noteworthy song, starting with the letter “A.” For good measure, and to show you how this game is played, I’ll give you another line, from another song, this time starting with the letter “B.” You’ll note that the second line makes sequential sense after the line that precedes it. This is an important rule! You are free to start a new “verse” once we’ve collectively strung together at least four lines.
To make this contextually relevant, I urge you to copy and paste the lines preceding the one (and only one!) you add, so we can watch the A-B-C of it unfold.
We’ll start with a free-for-all — any band, any song, just make sure you follow the alphabet and remember we each get just one line per post. As we progress through the alphabet a few times, we can get fancy, restricting the lines to just one genre, or artist, or just artists with beards who wore platform shoes and so forth.
Here’s my first line, and a further one to show you how this game is played:
Accidents will happen
Because the night belongs to lovers
I look forward to your responses.
HVB
It’s Sunday night, America. Still no new episodes of Downton Abbey. You’re missing it, aren’t you? I know I am. But I’ve got some good news that may help satisfy your jonesin’ for the upstairs-downstairs antics of the 21st century’s early 20th century English estate.
You may recall our recent call to cast the rock musical version of the BBC/PBS smash hit Downton Abbey, the edgier Downtown Abbey. If you need a refresher, click this link. That’s why we provide such links, you know.
As expected, Townspeople were neither sparing nor unimaginative with their entries. Our celebrity judge, He Who Hates Litterbugs, had almost as tough a time choosing winners as we did finding pictures showing what must be considered the “bad” profiles of a number of our cast members. Our cast follows the jump, but first, congratulations to the following winners of the Top 5 casting entries, chosen for not only their physical resemblance to the Downton Abbey cast members but their overall mien:
See these inspired casting choices and many more…after the jump! Thanks to all who played along, even 2000 Man.
Simon Le Bon as Matthew.
SPOILER ALERT: If you are a fan of the smash Masterpiece Theater series Downton Abbey and have not yet seen the conclusion to Season 3, you would be wise to go no further…unless, that is, your desire to cast the rock musical being made based on Downtown Abbey, retitled Downtown Abbey. If you don’t care about having the season-ending episode spoiler or if you’re up to date on recent developments and know already, proceed to the next page, where your chance to cast this rock musical extravaganza follows!
Attention, babies.
Action Mick has asked me to relay the following statement;
Action Mick has spoken.
Yes, he refers to himself in the third-person… Below is the official RTH casting for Rolling Stones: The Movie.
Casting is closed, babies.
As you know, our new BFFs over at Simon & Schuster, actually S&S imprint Gallery Books, has provided The Hall with 3 copies of this new release, Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger to give away. Our personal favorite review is:
Hot tub reading at its very tingliest.
– National Post
Click here to read more about the book.
Below the fold, as they say, are the three winners of the contest…
No Expectations babies
Our new BFFs over at Simon & Schuster, actually S&S imprint Gallery Books, has provided The Hall with 3 copies of this new release to give away. Our personal favorite review is:
Hot tub reading at its very tingliest.
— National Post
Click here to read more about the book.
So here’s how to qualify to win: Cast the movie. That’s it. Simply cast the Rolling Stones movie. You don’t even have to cast the whole thing. If your casting suggestion for just one of the roles is deemed among the 3 “best for that particular role,” you win.
The following 10 roles need to be cast. You can cast for one or all of them AND we have a TBD category. That is an 11th role to be cast that is as-of-yet undetermined. Example: Let’s say we were casting The Beatles movie and had 5 roles: John, Paul, George, and Ringo (seemingly always listed in that order) and George Martin. If there was a TBD category of your choosing you might suggest any of the following; Brian Epstein, Linda Macartney, Yoko, Magic Alex… Then if our judges were to pick your suggestion (both role and actor) then you win.
Get it? Got it? If not, post your question and an official RTH headmaster will respond.
The 10 cast members to be cast follow the jump!
Click this photo to enlarge and better identify these legendary producers from the 1960s and 1970s.
If you come here on a regular basis I bet you, like me, have spent an inordinate amount of time looking through album credits. You probably retain the full names of producers better than you do those of old flames, and that’s pretty sad considering how few old flames a typical Townsperson has to his or her name.
What occurred to me, recently, was how few of these producers I can tell by sight. I’ve collected photos of 13 legendary rock ‘n roll producers from the 1960s and 1970s. Without use of photo-identifying apps and with us limiting ourselves to one guess per post (so someone who’s met half of these guys, like professional studio cat cherguevara, doesn’t bogart the thread), how many of these producers can we identify?
To get a better look at each producer, click on the image in this post for a larger version to appear in a separate window.
Good luck!
