I thought it was all because THIS guy was from Cleveland:
Posted on 08/05/2014 12:18:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
They should just rename it the “Pop Music Hall of Fame.”
Maybe Alan Freed can move in with Casey Kasem.
I thought it was all because THIS guy was from Cleveland:
Well, Screamin Jay Hawkins AND Mad Daddy Pete Meyers (rock and roll DJ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5Tsij1mbs&list=PLDeLR6OaY5J3IqYhXs0H1JFpyGipDWfG3
“Every country has one city everyone makes fun of. In the United States, you make fun of Cleveland. In the Soviet Union, we make fun of Cleveland.” - Yakov Smirnoff
The problem is that the R/R HOF removed the ashes without a stated policy about what could and could not be displayed. Another problem is that they have one of Beyonce's dresses on display but Alan Freed's ashes are unacceptable. My suggestion was that they should've had us members vote on keeping the ashes instead of their annual stupid vote. FWIW, the lady at the membership desk was a real tool, just reading from her fact sheet even when I threw a trick question or two at her.
For all that, it's worth visiting the Rock Hall at least once.
Except.....Moody Blues have not been inducted. Madonna (etc ad nauseum) have.
Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler hated Hound Dog. And they get a wing named after them because....?
Maybe he was a ‘zionist’.
It could be plain old ignorance and irreverence of the young, or, or, maybe a few burning drops of anti-Jew feelings are now bubbling just under the surface. Let’s not ever forget how a member of Pink Floyd feels about Jews or Israel. Roger Waters has been very outspoken for many years about his hatred for them. I’ve never understood that kind of hate, unless it’s bourne out of habit and environment while growing up. Never justified, but this may be how he got that way.
Did one or both of them donate money for the wing? That does seem to motivate a lot of Hall's dumber decisions.
I like their stated reason for including REM. Candadians complained they hadn't been inducted. And a lot of Canadians take short vacations in nearby Cleveland. The voting has become silly for who to induct, between bad choices and it being an in crowd voting for their buddies. JMHO
OTOH, you have a lot of young'ins, liberals, and aging hippies visiting the place, and the ashes probably remind them of their own mortality.
As a kid, we popped into the original Smithsonian building. Smithson's "coffin" (wooden box containing his bones, iirc) was on display in an iron-gated nook.
And then they charge the “winning” bands tens of thousands of dollars each to be seated at their own awards dinner.
Did they finally induct “The Monkees”?
“They should just rename it the “Pop Music Hall of Fame.””
Yeah no kidding. IIRC they already allow that rap garbage to be “inducted”.
The 1978 movie American Hot Wax was about the life of Alan Freed.
It starred Tim McIntire, as well as Fran Drescher, Laraine Newman, Melanie Chartoff, Jay Leno and Moosie Drier in supporting roles.
Cameos by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Ford, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins
-PJ
I noted your note of Screamin Jay -
Any fan of his should definitely watch this flick “Stranger Than Paradise”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088184/?ref_=nm_knf_i4
Just sayin - you will never hear I’ve Got A Spell On You” the same way again.
I did get a huge kick out of the Lynyrd Skynyrd exhibit too...
I'd love to go back and will comment that we met the kindest man outside our hotel, who took a moment to point us in the right direction when walking around as to avoid trouble
Mad Daddy! Damn you must be an old timer from Cleveland too!!
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