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."
Yet somehow Donna Summer was inducted
My bands were the dead Kennedys, the buzz Cox, 999, Black flag, etc.
You would have gotten along great with my first college roommate.
Renegade is my favorite Styx tune
That one is ok.
Seeing double vision here and it’s fine.
The Buzzcocks (correction)
Dude. Donna Summmer ROCKED.
Along with Kraftwerk, Giorgio Morodor (who worked closely with Donna) was the father of Electronic, Techno, and Industrial, which gave rise to my favorite band of all time, Nine Inch Nails
Nully is a Donna fan.
Rock was never about getting voted into a HoF.
Nothing against Bon Jovi, but I’d consider Boston, Foreigner, and other bands from the late ‘70s more worthy.
I'm a Musicians Hall of Fame fan myself.
My favorite bands in college were Lamb-Lies-Down era Genesis, and some of the new wave stuff coming out: Newman, Talking Heads, stuff like that.
But when Nine Inch Nails hit, I left everything behind for Trent Reznor. AMAZING artist.
Hot Stuff had a good guitar solo by Skunk Baxter.
They all just need to roll with the changes.
I do give them credit for their album titles.
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish.
Renegade was a big favorite back then.
Boston was a game-changer, totally redefined how to record a record.
It is also featured in this Jeff Corlis death-defying stunt video.
Definitely what I’d call ‘a head turner’, for various reasons. I could only take one minute and five seconds.
Even though I don’t normally sing in Norweigian, that verse sounded flat or off key to me. The guitar riffs were going twice as fast as the vocals. Interesting. Not the most telegenic trio. No one would confuse them with the PussyCatDolls or The Go Gos.
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