Anyone else unable to perform when scheduled for a concert?
Posted on 12/15/2009 11:44:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise
The Stooges, Genesis, ABBA, the Hollies and Jimmy Cliff will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the shrine's 25th annual ceremony on March 15 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. They'll be joined by David Geffen and a cadre of songwriters -- Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell -- who will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on Fuse TV.
Surprisingly not making the cut were KISS and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who were thought to be frontrunners when the short list of nominees was announced in September.
Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks tells Billboard.com that the induction is "nice to happen" and that it's an honor to be the second British progressive rock band, after Pink Floyd, to join the Hall. "I suppose it being American-based and all that it just concentrates slightly more on that type of music," he says. Which members of Genesis might perform at the ceremony is somewhat up in the air due to Phil Collins' recent surgery to repair dislocated vertebrae. "Phil's got a few physical problems at the moment which means I don't think he'd be able to play, so...I don't really know what that means," Banks says. "We'll face that particular hurdle when we get to it."
Hollies veteran Graham Nash calls the group's induction "well-deserved," noting that "they were a very large part of the British Invasion. They were a very large part of early, you know, English rock. They had a couple of dozen Top 10 hits (in the U.K.), and hits over here (in the U.S.), and why not?" His longtime colleague Stephen Stills was "so happy" for Nash and cracked that "now he can quit feeling inferior" because Stills and David Crosby have each been inducted into the Hall more than once. But, Stills adds, "I thought (the Hollies) was a great band, and we all wanted to sing like that. The fact I ended up with one of their singers is one of the luckiest things in my life."
ABBA is unlikely to regroup for a performance at the March ceremony, but the Stooges, in the wake of founding guitarist Ron Asheton's death in early January, have already been planning a 2010 tour with "Raw Power" era guitarist James Williamson. The group has been nominated for the Hall seven previous times.
The Stooges.
ABBA.
But no Chicago.
Yeah... that makes sense.
In Obamaworld.
yes for KISS, I hate Styx.
I’m surprised it took so long for ABBA to get in. They have been number 2 on the all-time record sales list for a long, long time. By comparison, the other nominees are not even close.
....I think my wife nominated me for that once.
So it is a record industry thing then? Not about influence and performance? or even rock?
Let’s get Shaun Cassidy, Menudo, and New Kids on the Block in there then.
Ha. You think that’s bad, wait until Wenner inducts Sean Lennon.
Anyone else unable to perform when scheduled for a concert?
NKOTB haven’t been around 25 years, and one-hit wonders don’t qualify.
What’s crazy is all of the performers who are inducted two and three times when other people died while waiting to get recognized by Pope Wenner.
I like when Larry does his violin solo of “Pop Goes The Weasel”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids_on_the_Block
Debut album 1986, 2 years away.
#1, #8, and #10 hits. That isn’t one hit wonder. It is also music industry pop crap.
That's not crazy. For example, all the Beatles have been inducted twice, both as members of the Beatles and as solo acts, except Paul McCartney who has been inducted three times: As a Beatle, a solo act, and frontman of Wings. Anothe example: Eric Clapton has been inducted twice, as a solo act and as the frontman of Cream.
Abba sold tons of records and helped to create the so-called "europop" sound. I'd take them over Madonna anytime. Stooges? Yes.
I never said NKOTB were one-hit wonders, Menudo and Shaun Cassidy are. “Da Doo Ron Ron” is a cover of a 1960’s song by all-girl quad The Crystals.
I wouldn't classify Genesis as R&R but the band has some of the finest musicians in the business.
Chester Thompson, Bill Bruford, and Phil Collins are top Drummers...Daryl Sturmer on guitar, awesome talents.
Much of the girl group songs of the 1960s were likewise written and produced by industry teams.
The HOF celebrating “Brill Building” writers pimps the song-pluggers.
There were people who wrote their own songs before the Woodstock and before the Beatles. But the industry champions those who held the publishing rights to the “true” hits.
I absolutely love ABBA....always have, always will.....one of the best things I’ve done in the past few years was see Mamma Mia on Broadway - then drove up to Birmingham to see the national tour - saw the movie 4 times (though didn’t like Pierce Brosnan as Sam) but I could listen to their music non-stop.....ok, ok, I know it’s not rock & roll but hey, nobody can deny their success!
The Stooges finally made it! I feel alright!!!
I didn’t know the US senate and house could qualify for the Rock Hal Of Fame :)
I saw a special on MTV or VH1 on Journey, they received a letter from a 10 yo kid's mom who had cystic fibrosis and was a huge fan. They were so moved by the letter they chartered a jet to visit him in the hospital and let him be the first one to hear "Only the Young" on a portable player.
The poor kid died the next day but I was truly struck by their generosity to go out of their way to visit him, still chokes me up when I think about it.
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