[grania]

I'm a member so I get to call the members phone line and rant. Being a member means nothing except a tee shirt, free admission, a members phone line, a really lousy members day, and a patronizing vote about which of three stupid "artifacts" to display.

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.

[a fool in paradise]

Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler hated Hound Dog. And they get a wing named after them because....?

[Revelation 911]

we took our then teen kids in the mid 90's- I was awestruck they had Cliff Gallups guitar AND Eddie Cochrans Gretsch with the P90 pickups...but what blew me away was the Aerosmith lyrics, scrawled on a piece of paper.....next to the mens room....wth?

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