Posted on 03/16/2010 12:16:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Another year, another reason to raise bloody hell over who didn't get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — and who did. Tonight, a fresh class of five historic names will march into the coveted main hall: ABBA, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis, the Hollies and the Stooges.
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I was born in 1967 and it’s scary how much stuff from that list I have owned or still have. Somewhere in my parents’ attic there’s a box of cassettes with a lot of that stuff, but they’ve probably melted or a bunch of them probably have mold from spilled beer and stuff).
Dude, you’re a baby, all my stuff is in vinyl. I have two huge boxes and a complete stereo stored in my utility room.
Never gonna happen. The libs of the HOF hate him almost as much they hate Sarah Palin.
Most of the stuff I would prefer to buy on CD, but a lot of it was never released on CD or if it was there’s maybe one copy on Amazon for a couple hundred bucks like you said.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the early to mid-80s stuff made a huge comeback soon. Us older Gen-Xers are exactly the right age to start getting nostaligic about the music we listened to in high school and college.
I believe he started “glam rock”.
No, Alice started shock rock. Glam rock was a British invention (see T-Rex).
I’ve got a bunch of older stuff from the 70s and before on vinyl. I don’t remember ANYONE buying 80s stuff on vinyl after about 1983.
Yes, I agree on the demographics thing. My wife and I went and saw Billy Squire last fall. Sold out show, several thousands, crowd was really into it. About 5 yrs ago went to Modest Mouse, a newer band, could not believe how dead the younger crowd was. Then, we went and saw Bronski Beat, and again a more lively late 30s, 40 something year old crowd.
Judas Priest isn’t in the Hall? That’s it my boycott of Cleveland continues.
The sequence of how they let people and groups in made a little bit of sense the first couple of years, but went downhill from there.
How did Bill Graham get in BEFORE either the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane.
How the Four Seasons get in BEFORE Led Zeppelin?
Bill Graham and Jann Wenner ran the music business in SF so therefore they get in before Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane. Why are Jefferson Airplane in when their two most famous songs are Great Society songs?
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Now there’s a name I hadn’t heard in a while.
He’s been dead for 10 years.
But the Hall pretends there is nothing from the 1950s but crooners and doo-wop that hasn’t been recognized by the Hall.
Either the hall should recognize something beyond the 60s/70s of Rolling Stoned’s heyday or it shouldn’t.
Ike Turner should be in the Hall under is own name as well going back to ‘Rocket 88’.
Bruce Sprinsteen, major Obaminite. What a waste, he is a talented rocker.
I guess you and I view talent differently.
Mine are in record racks and the entertainment center in my living room. (built a slide-out drawer for my linear tracking turntable)
I enjoyed his early stuff, have no idea what he did later.
Rick Derringer should definitely have a spot. After all he is one of the founding fathers of Rock & Roll as we came to know it. Killer Blues, Jazz, & Rock-man. He is still alive and well, and continues to tour his three bands.
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