I almost hate to write this post, touting this new (to me) game show, because it appears to be a DirecTV exclusive, and those of you with no DirecTV will have to resort to YouTube clips.
I said “almost.”
Rock and a Hard Place is a game show featuring various has-been and currently-are rock/pop stars, answering music-related trivia questions, and mediated by…wait for it…Meatloaf. It’s formatted like a classic gameshow. The Loaf leans on the podium of each team, asks a few quick questions about which charity they’re playing for, then on with the show!
The show has apparently been around for a bit, so there’s a decent backlog of clips on Youtube. Last night’s ep featured members of Toto vs. members of A Flock of Seagulls, competing in games like Guess the Album Cover, Name the Video Star/Song, and true or false trivia about the band members themselves. A particularly agonizing game had each contestant playing a song on the kazoo for their teammates to guess. The show is great fun to watch and play along with, especially the album cover game, and it’s nice to see these geezers out and about again.
And just look at these upcoming episodes:
- 10/28 Right Said Fred vs. Bananarama
- 11/4 Leif Garrett vs. Bay City Rollers
- 11/11 Divas vs. Color Me Badd
- 11/18 Jeffrey Osborne vs. Tony Orlando
- 11/25 Quiet Riot All Stars vs. Air Supply
- 12/2 Jimmie Van Zandt vs. Sisqo
- 12/9 The Skinners vs. The Shredders
- 12/16 Tommy Tutone vs. Ray Parker Jr
- 12/23 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam vs. Da Brat
- 12/30 Everclear vs. Starship
- 1/6/09 Sha Na Na vs. War
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