[My Favorite Headache]

Jann Wenner (editor of Rolling Stone and...the head of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), should burn in eternal hell for what he has done to these real rock acts from the 60s, 70s, and 80s who he has had passed over. The DC5 was passed over last year so they could let in a rap act. They kept getting passed over and over in favor of some of his favorite artists and friends instead.

The amount of bands not in there who will have members in their 60s soon is criminal. Rush, Kiss, Boston, Journey, Chicago, Foreigner etc...not in the rock hall. Smith waited and waited and waited...now he won't be alive to be inducted.

Jann Wenner...burn in hell.

[the invisib1e hand]

did he die, or did the New York Times just report that he died?

[GSWarrior]

Wow. I am in pieces. Bits and pieces.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sad news. A landmark band from the 60s.

I guess he's not feelin' Glad All Over anymore.

[abb]

Accurate assessment of Wenner. The Dave Clark Five personified the British Invasion and are pivotal in the history of Rock & Roll.

[I still care]

My husband passed about 5 years ago. He was a guitarist, and loved the Dave Clark 5. I still have many of their original 45s and LPs.

Sad, nostalgic ping.

[Lancey Howard]

It makes me laugh every time another “rapper” or “hip hop” act I never heard of gets inducted into the Rock and Roll “Hall of Fame”. That thing is a joke, and Wenner is nothing but a washed-up little mouse.

[rockrr]

One of my early favs (NOT Jann!)...RIP Mike

[I still care]

I was listening to our oldies station a few weeks ago and the DJ went off on this guy. I think it was Scott Shannon - remember him?

[originalbuckeye]

Really loved the Dave Clark Five. I saw them in concert when I was a teenybopper in the mid 60’s. Mike Smith had been in ill health and in a wheelchair for several years.

RIP Mike, you gave us a lot of listening pleasure.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

My older sister listened to the DC5 albums when I was a little kid. I remember the music as happy, fartsy sing alongs. That was before my older brother corrupted me with Hendrix, Cream, Led Zep, Jefferson Airplane, Zappa, Janis Joplin, Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly, Doors, Steppen Wolf, Santana, etc.

[EyeGuy]

Vocal genius from Mike Smith in the great:

Catch us if you ca-AA-aa-an, catch us if you ca-aa-aa-an, catch us if you ca-aa-AA an, catch us if you can.

Beats all hell out of:

I got my b!tches and my Ho’s and my Dom, in the Pres’dent’s Suite

[vetvetdoug]

Johnny Rivers.....I think Wenner has a hard on toward him. Rivers belongs there above many of them before.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here's the link to an article on this that you posted last year that I recalled reading:

Rock Hall Voting Scandal: Dave Clark 5 Actually Won (Jann Wenner FINALLY EXPOSED)

-PJ

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[plain talk]

Kiss,

Kiss? They can kiss my arse. Great business model with the makeup - but lousy no-talent garage band act.

[StatenIsland]

That’s my generation - I was 13 in ‘64. My wife loved him - her first rock ‘n roll crush.

She’s feelin’....sad all over.

[nomorelurker]

Ok going over to youtube now for some Rush “Spirit of Radio” etc.

[Revolting cat!]

Wenner created this thing, it’s his baby,he can put Annette and Frankie there is he wants to, what difference does it make? Geez! There is a Broccoli and Asparagus Hall of Fame somewhere in this crazy country, do we care what veggies go in them? Ignore, boycott, mock, it’s not the Vatican selecting Saints, it is utterly meaningless.

[BunkDetector]

“Jann Wenner...burn in hell.”

Well, if so, he should move over and make room for you.
DC5, Boston, Journey and Foreigner are the worst kind of white bread spawn of Pat Boone easy listening elevator music.
And that’s more than a feeling.

b

[Revolting cat!]

Apropos, how come no one has mentioned the Undertakers?