Posted on 03/07/2008 11:56:33 AM PST by GQuagmire
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and your third grade teacher have some strikingly wrong similarities They’re both bloated, dowdy and prissy fossils that are way too full of unconditional love. Oh, and they both get positively giddy over James Taylor’s chardonnay-and-brie, adult-contemporary lullabies.
The Hall of Fame induction committee has never wanted to hurt anyone’s feelings or make tough decisions - like actually defining what is and isn’t rock ’n’ roll - so for 22 years it has distributed inductions like Miss Anderson handed out ribbons on diorama day.
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I won a couple of tickets to tour the Hall in Cleveland. I’m just glad I did not have to pay to do it-the place is a huge waste of time and money.
Surely you don’t have any objections to Sweet Baby James, do you?
(sarc)
Can we put the Bee Gees on an ice floe?
Hey, you were right!
“Some.”
Little Johnny Cougar...ha, ha.
Actually, I think that because of who they DO put in the RRHF, nobody pays any attention to it.
HOW can Lou Reed not be in? That’s just wrong.
Other than a few hair bands their hasn’t been any rock and roll bands since the mid 80’s.
I agree with just about everything the author says, but he’s way to concerned about image over music. Vote for the Stooges because of the influence they had on punk and what came after punk, not because Iggy was twisted.
He’s also right that much of the “Rock n’ Roll” Hall of Fame is not rock. I can forgive the R and B performers that influenced rock, but there is no excuse for calling Madonna rock.
Pop ain’t rock.
Why can’t the have sub-catagories like Pop, Soul, Disco etc? They’re all rock and roll derivations. Elvis and Buddy Holly wouldn’t qualify based on this guy’s criteria.
Aren’t The Velvet Underground in?
>>Can we put the Bee Gees on an ice floe?<<
If you do actual research into them, you will find that Barry Gibb hold a talent like no other.
Take out the disco stuff and they were marvelous.
I couldn’t live without “Nights on Broadway”
The problem with the history of rock is that it was written by “Alan ‘Moondog’ Freed” who stole his name and theme song from a street perfoming jazz viking and got paid in co-writing credits for songs (including a cut by Chuck Berry), Dick Clark (who’s shady business dealings may come to light once he is gone), Jann Wener (who still aparantly holds a grudge against some acts that will never get in the Hall), Bill Graham (who demanded that bands have a certain political relevancy he agreed with as well as being marketable to the tune of tens of thousands of tickets), and that dead guy from Atlantic.
The history is false. There are plenty of acts that were overlooked by these pompus jerks. Acts that inspired the acts that do get through to the airwaves and eventually in the hall themselves.
There is definitely something wrong with that.
I have friends that will be there, guests of Mellencamps.
This is live from 75. No one can match those harmonies and the change in the tempo of the music.
It is art, plain and simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6DcL6d4bY&feature=related
Out: James Taylor, Jackson Browne and John Mellencamp
Everyone in this trio belongs in some yet-to-be-created boomer songwriter hall of fame. But let’s face it, they’re all B-list when it comes to rockin’. And D-list when it comes to blowing minds.
I agree with this 100%.
Are the Jefferson Airplane or Starship in? If so, they should be tossed out with the trash. terrible Terrible Terrible. Living off one song and that terrible “We Built this City” garbage.
But that doesn’t mean it belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. I have wide and varied musical tastes that covers almost every subcategory of rock and plenty of stuff that isn’t. Having the BeeGees in the Rock Hall is akin to having Sousa in there, it might be great music, but it ain’t rock and roll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r13MnnToErM
JT did do a bit of rock & roll early on.
Here’s a sit-down version of JT’s Steamroller Blues from ‘71.
Elvis covered this one in his famous concert from Hawaii.
Do you think the Beatles should be in there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1GfNofq0o&feature=related
I have never liked Prince but he can really play. This is the George Harrison induction.
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