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.
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.
Taylor writes and plays schmaltzy pablum. He is a ninth-rate hack who also does not rock.
Cohen writes great songs, he is a highly-talented lyricist and his songs occasionally rock as well - but his aesthetic is more folk/Songbook than rock.
I know what is good. I don’t need a Hall of Fame or Grammy Awards or American Music Awards to tell me.
They’re all jokes in my opinion.
Chicago should have been inducted years ago.
Period.
Sorry disagree completely with this, while yes the Eagles were IMHO better when accoustic, And yes Henley is a gasbag... you can't deny after Joe Walsh helped electrify them, that they had an impact on the more rockin side of things.
Petition to induct Yes into the RRHOF
IMHO, Yes definitely belongs in the RRHOF, but because of that bone smuggler Jann Wenner (the flaming commie who publishes Rolling Stone) who despises prog rock, they (and Rush, King Crimson, etc: ie. bands whose members are truly accomplished musicians) never are considered.
There’s Britney stuff in there.
Better to just burn it down! (sarcasm)
Until my namesakes are in, the R&RHoF can piss off!
I’ll offer a gentle dissent that the very ideas of Rock ‘n’ Roll and “Hall Of Fame” are antithetical. When it’s you who has become the Establishment, what is there left to rebel against?
Good article. I stopped paying attention when they let in Billy Joel. Blech!