If I never hear another Bob Seger tune, it'll be too soon.
Posted on 10/07/2022 5:30:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame co-founder Jann Wenner said Foreigner and Styx have never even been considered for induction.
Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine, added that bands from the same era, including REO Speedwagon and Boston, have also never been discussed by those tasked with choosing inductees.
In a new episode of the WTF podcast, host Marc Maron asked, “Are there bands – and I know you’ve been accused of this before – are there bands you will not, you know, indulge at all? ... There’s been talk of you maybe stifling some people’s membership into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that feel like they deserve it.”
Wenner replied, “There is talk of that, but I don’t control that. I’m not on the nominating committee.” Asked specifically about Foreigner, he said, “Nothing against Foreigner – in fact, I was very good friends with Mick Jones … but, you know, Foreigner’s name has never come up in a nominating committee to be nominated.”
Maron also asked about REO Speedwagon, Boston and Styx, but Wenner said none of them had been mentioned either. “No, that whole era, it doesn’t come up,” he noted. “I grew up in that era, I went to high school in that era,” Maron replied. “Well, you’re not gonna get in the Hall of Fame either!” Wenner joked. He went on to cite another example: “Bon Jovi – it took years for him to get in.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Wenner reflected on Almost Famous, the 2000 movie written by Cameron Crowe based on the director and writer's experience of being commissioned to write for Rolling Stone at a young age. “I always think of it as a love letter at Rolling Stone and to those days, and to who we all were,” he said.
"That's what Rolling Stone reporters did, more or less: They’d go out and hang out on the road for a while, hang with the band, get into it because they love the band," Wenner explained. "It was a true story and a true story about Cameron."
Trent worked with a few artists to improve their sound, including (would you believe) Marilyn Manson.
“On the verge of the coming Total Nuclear War we will be experiencing, I find it comforting I can be among friends and discuss the music of our youth.”
Other than that, we’ve got bupkis! ;)
What a nice sentiment to wake up to this morning! Thank you! :)
Wenner is the douche who ramrodded ABBA into the Rock HOF but stalled, delayed and blocked such acts as Black Sabbath, KISS, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Alice Cooper and other legendary acts. He walks in rappers and other non-rock acts as he sees fit.
He has made the Rock HOF an absolute joke because is really is Jann Wenner’s favorite acts HOF and little more.
Dang, Taz - don't drop babies on their head then let them eat lead paint chips.
“Playin’ for a week in Rhode Island
A man came to the stage one night
He smoked a big cigar
Drove a Cadillac car
And said “Boys, I think this band’s outta sight”
Boston’s first album is my favorite of all time. They say Boomers refuse to let their era of music go and you know they’re right.
A&R?
What mean, A&R?
As for REO Speedwagon, I think it’s time for them to fly.
I love Rick Beato’s videos!
Artists and Repertoire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists_and_repertoire
Tom Petty used the term in “Into The Great Wide Open”
“Their A&R Man says ‘I don’t hear a single!’”
Which is funny because Boston never played live before the album came out.
Hope someone brings back the “Knee in the Groin” contest. There’s plenty of fodder for sure.
This was always Wenner’s problem. He was always about what HE likes, not about what’s making waves. He’s never like hard rock, and he’s never liked prog rock. So his magazine, and now his hall of fame, has always given them short shrift. It sucks but what you gonna do. Other than not patronize them.
If I never hear another Bob Seger tune, it'll be too soon.
Gracias. And yes, that’s how corporate rock became so stale, mostly, in the 70s.
Thank G-d for the punks.
Say that in Michigan, and you’ll get your ass kicked.
Styx I can understand... Foreigner though that surprises me...
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