[Captainpaintball]

I have been saying this kind of stuff since I began following the rock and roll hall of shame voting. It is just a pissing contest between rich white liberals to come up with the most obscure, most "colorful" acts to show how "in touch" and how "down with the cause" they are. mles Davis is a great Jazz musician, but does he belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Solomon Burke? I love him, but come on...Bobby Darin? Etta James? Clyde McPhatter? The countless blues acts? The Jackson Five? curtis Mayfield? the Moonglows? Ritchie Valens? Get real...

In reality, they are merely (but only slightly) guilty about making a fortune at the expense (through shisterly contrats or through outright imitation) of the minorities that preceded them,and continue to toil in obscurity. They wouldn't give them credit, or lucrative contracts when it mattered, so they put them in , sometimes posthumously, when it means nothing. In turn, this ultimately hurts the Hall's legitimacy, thereby making the committee double offenders of crimes against rock and roll.

[My Favorite Headache]

Jann Wenner
Rolling Stone $4,600 Republican
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