Coincidence? I think not.................
Posted on 04/10/2016 6:07:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fly Like an Eagle songwriter says process needs to be changed 'from the top to the bottom'
He gave a warm acceptance speech on stage Friday but rocker Steve Miller's rant behind the scenes of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was anything but.
The 72-year-old musician, who performed popular hits during the ceremony including Fly Like an Eagle and The Joker, ripped into the rock hall for what he described as an "unpleasant" system.
"The whole process needs to be changed from the top to the bottom," the guitarist and revered singer-songwriter told reporters in the press room after the ceremony.
"When they told me I was inducted, they told me 'you can have two tickets — one for your wife and one for yourself. Want another one? It's $10,000, sorry that's the way it goes,'", he recounted. "I said 'I'm playing here, what about my band, what about their wives?'"
Miller also claimed there were problems with licensing agreements and with the rock hall "stealing footage."
Inductee Steve Miller, who performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony Friday, told reporters the entire process needs an overhaul. (Charles Sykes/The Associated Press)
"No, we're not going to wrap this one up — I'm going to wrap you up," he said to a public relations liaison who attempted to interrupt him.
"You go sit down over there and learn something," he said, adding that the show was close to "not happening because of the way the artists are being treated right now."
The organization issued a statement Friday afterwards.
"Rock and roll can ignite many opinions. It's what makes it so great. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was honoured to induct Steve Miller tonight and congratulates him."
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Not sure why you think Steve Miller is a “dud.” He literally grew up with the guitar. Les Paul was his godfather. He played in bands throughout his high school and college years (often with classmate Boz Scaggs). He went to Chicago to play with blues greats like Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf. He then went to San Francisco to become part of the blues/rock scene, and released his first album in 1968. Years before he had a string of top hits in the Seventies, he had already made his mark in the music world.
Did you listen to AM RnR radio stations in the early 60s?
Franklin, Charles, and Brown were all prominent acts with
numerous recordings featured on top 40 stations. The term
“rocker” may have been coined in the 70s and/or terminology
may have evolved along with new genres but the RnR HOF is
the exact place for those entertainers who are, indeed,
rockers in the “traditional sense”.
Homer: Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It’s a scientific fact.
Homer: I was in a record store, and they were playing all these bands I’d never heard of. It was like the store had gone crazy.
Marge: Record stores have always seemed crazy to me. Music is none of my business.
Homer: That’s all well and good for you, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day... now I’m lucky to find half an hour a week in which to get funky. I’ve got to get out of this rut and back into the groove.
Homer: Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.
[the teenagers Homer and Barney are doing an acapella version of “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” in front of a mirror]
Middle-aged Grampa: What the Hell are you two doin’?
Young Barney: It’s called rockin’ out!
Young Homer: You wouldn’t understan’, dad. You’re not *with it*.
Middle-aged Grampa: I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I’m with isn’t *it*, and what’s *it* seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you...
N-words With Attitude -and, yes, you haven’t missed anything.
I actually appreciate it more now that I’m older (and current artists offer little); to each their own.
I remember DP’s okay “Smoke On The Water”, but that’s as far as I got with any of the big hair metal bands.
I don’t think RUSH is in, either. (And I’m not looking it up.) That’s okay with me. RRHOF is a racket I’m glad my music heroes aren’t a part of!
“Machine Head” and “Perfect Strangers” from the 1980s were both good; a real change of course for a long-haired late 60s/70s band.
There has been a Pop Music Hall of Fame for a few years now, with some overlap with the RARHOF, eg Paul McCartney. My favorite band, when I was 13, was Paul Revers and the Raiders who are being inducted this year. I’m excited for fans of the late Paul Revere, one of the hardest working rockers, IMHO.
Yes, Jethro Tull’s absence is unbelievable.
Grace Slick said it about 30 years ago, paraphrasing: No one over age 35 should EVER be allowed to get up on stage and play Rock n Roll—it can’t be Rock if it’s played by some old fogey! I wouldn’t be surprised to know that she may get on a stage and play old hits (for the money of course), but that’s not the issue.
Steve Miller—who in his best day was IMO a copycat phony at best and a two-bit hack songwriter at worst, playing junk rock for 80’s yuppies—exemplifies why Grace was right. I’m getting older too, but this guy has been an old hack since his first hit in the 70’s, if you ask me anyway.
And now these old hacks (like Journey, Kiss, Billy Joel, Foreigner etc, and even my college-faves the Eagles) are just pathetic when they get on stage, even though the Eagles still play every song note-perfect.
Hey this is just my opinion, I’m not trying to butthurt anyone’s feelings.
Yeah, Funkadelic! Somewhere between Johnny Guitar Watson and Rick James?
But now, no one under age 35 plays Rock’n’roll.
“Middle-aged Grampa: I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I’m with isn’t *it*, and what’s *it* seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you...”
I was talking to an older woman at our church about my kid’s tastes in music that included rap. (”Christian rap” - but rap none-the-less).
“Well - that’s the way it alway’s been. My parents couldn’t stand the music I listened to either!”
“Oh? What kind of music was THAT?”
“Big Band. They thought anything that had horns in it was from the devil!”
Steve Miller is way above that crap. Madonna and the hip hop crappers are the truly embarrassing ones. Bands and acts that should have been in years ago should be glad that they aren’t. I hope Blue Oyster Cult refuses and someone does the same for Motorhead. Black Sabbath was disappointing, just terrible that they even showed up.
It’s why the MLB/baseball hall is really the only one worth anything, even for all it’s flaws. Bob Eucker or some other stiff isn’t rubbing shoulders with Ted Williams as a player. Madonna and Bob Dylan are equal as far as the R&R hall. Come on.
Freegards
Indeed
He was Your Saving Grace
Most folks here are poor info for music
For instance rock and roll and rock....two different things that overlap
This whole thing is chickenhawk Jann Wenners baby
What would Gleason or Bangs or Rev Young say?
Can’t imagine they’d bless this monstrosity
I know what you mean. When I saw Mick Jagger perform at the Super Bowl, loose skin flapping from his forearms yet still strutting around, sticking his butt out and making pouty lips, all I could do was shake my head and change the channel.
I’ve been a Steve Miller fan since I was 12. I’ve seen him twice and he’s incredibly talented.
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Oh man, me too!
Coincidence? I think not.................
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