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."
In 1981....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpW2dBeeUg
Yeah, here I am sitting on this bar stool,
Talking like a damn fool
Got the twelve o’clock news blues
And I’ve given up hope for the afternoon soaps
And a bottle of cold brew
Is it any wonder I’m not crazy
Is it any wonder I’m sane at all
Well I’m so tired of losing
I’ve got nothing to do and all day to do it
Well I’d go out cruising, but I’ve no place
To go and all night to get there
Is it any wonder I’m not a criminal
Is it any wonder I’m not in jail
Is it any wonder I’ve got too much
time on my hands
It’s ticking away with my sanity
Now I’m a jet fuel genius
I can solve the world’s problems
Without even trying
I’ve got dozens of friends, and the fun never ends
That is as long as I’m buying
Is it any wonder I’m not the President
Is it any wonder I’m null and void
Is it any wonder I’ve got too much
Time on my hands
It’s ticking away with my sanity
reo barfwagon , indeed..
I saw styx at an outdoor venue once.
it was a short show and they acted like they were going come back and play an oncore or 2.
I saw a big van leaving from behind the stage and told my friends that we should leave, but since no one else noticed and no one was leaving I was stuck.
30 minutes later people realized and we got stuck in trafic snafu for hours.
So they do not have my vote.
I would NEVER destroy a SINGLE disco disc. Ever! ;)
THAT was my music. Which explains a LOT, LOL!
I wouldn’t trade a single night out dancing for anything.
I was also into, ‘Jazzercise’ back then. I ROCKED a leotard. *SMIRK*
I make NO apologies for who I was/am. :)
Styx & REO Speedwagon were local Chicago bands that I never had interest in.
No, give me Chicago greats Minnie Ripperton, Rotary Connection, Cryin Shames, Buckinghams, CTA, Jerry Butler, ChiLites, Maurice White and his EWF,and the greatest unsung writer producer arranger in the history of popular rock: Charles Stepney. Now THAT was Chitown music worthy of Hall of Fame.
Rolling Stone only ever liked bitter, edging, pseudo-artsy, rapey stoners.
LOL. Now that is some funny stuff.
Had a friend in high school. Biggest REO Speedwagon fan there ever was. Wore their T-shirts everyday.
Then Hi-Infidelty came out. I noticed he stopped wearing the shirts, I asked him and he told me, “I’m never listening to that bleeping band again, they’re a chick band now!”
LOL!!
the 1st 2 lps were ok
It takes a lot of talent to play four different songs at once.
I would agree on this but there are a lot of acts already in the HOF that don’t belong there. Madonna, Eminem, Janet Jackson, to name a few. That’s not rock and roll. Neither are Neil Diamond and Donna Summer, so in the rock and roll hall of fame for some strange reason.
Same thing happened with Journey, maybe even the first two albums with Steve Perry were ok, but they totally went Chick Band after that.
When we went to high school, your band was your identity. We all knew who everybody’s favorite band was.
Biggest Styx fan in my high school was a girl. We’re still friends today, although I still hate the band. I still rag her all the time on Styx, lol, thankfully she has a thick skin.
Greatest Album, Ever!
Just which drugs are freely offered at Hell’s Path Hospital?
Which are available tonight?
Mr. Roboto might be the worst rock song ever. “Babe” is the ultimate chick song.
I remember when Styx did the Mr. Roboto tour and did the “story” part of it, the fans were booing the whole time.
The Shaggs had never heard any music before, the dad was super religious and banned the radio and any phonographs.
It’s weird but Frank Zappa was right. These were actually musicians and talented ones at that.
They just had no technique, no training. But the timing worked out, that they’d come together at the same time.
This is uniquely HUMAN music, performed by fallible humans, with all our idiosyncracies. As terrible as it was, there is a strange hypnotic sense to it.
A comment on YouTube goes:
“This makes me want to start an indie rock project. A band where the members get on stage and do whatever. Drummer stops playing to get a drink or talk with an audience member? Go ahead. Singer recites Shakespeare, then goes cookie monster, then talks about his problems and some solutions, go ahead. Guitarist shows up with a turntable? Go ahead. Go ‘Head, there we go. And the debut album will be called The Antithesis of Music.”
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