Congratulations, lads!
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.
TI’s “Poison Summer” was a truly great album.
No problem. When the next vote comes up for the R&RHoF representatives I say we vote them all out. If they are not doing what we want it is only fair. /s
They aren’t an influence and they aren’t rock. I was being kind by suggesting that maybe Lady Gaga or Madonna wants to cite them as an “influence”.
Heck, maybe they inspired the Sex Pistols and the Ramones to do something DIFFERENT than what was the status quo.
NYT reports today that Congress's new omnibus spending bill has made major cuts in the National Science Foundation (you know the folks that helped bring us browsers, Google and some other things less important like bioinformatics, mathematical research, etc.). The budget is down $105 million from last year and $272 million less than even President (Creation) Science requested.
The Stooges being in makes sense in any world.
The one with the Chrysler is John Voight.
I find that the entire SF influence on 60s rock was overstated. We look back and “know” of it because of Jann Wener’s Rolling Stone (published there), Bill Graham’s Fillmore West, and Family Dog’s colorful posters.
Totally ignores the LA Sunset Strip history, Texas, Chicago, etc.
There were other poster artists, other zines and underground papers (Crawdaddy was there before Rolling Stone and some would say Cream did it better).
It certainly gives a myopic perspective on the history of music (”these are my friends’ bands and man I saw them a lot...”). Nostalgia vs. history. Personal experience and bias over an objective accounting from those who picked up guitars and formed bands.
Barry Mann and Ellie Greenwich (and possibly other non-performers) were performers, dude!
ABBA is in the top three of album sales of all time.
Congratulations, lads!
I’m glad to see the Stooges get in and James Williamson isn’t a mere “replacement” for a deceased member, he’s been brought back into the music fold (after several decades of retirement) in a process they’ve been working on for a couple of years now.
It is ironic that James’ return comes after Ron Ashton’s death. And it is a shame that Ron did not live to see the induction (as Joe Strummer did not live to see his induction nor Joey Ramone his induction).
So yeah, keep putting pop acts in while those who played rock die off and then get celebrated after the fact.
Well, if it was my backslapping party it would be about who I like. So what.
Hey, we could always institute some sort of control over it.
Maybe we could get Obama to take it over like he did the Auto industry. Then we the people would get to decide! /s
Louis Armstrong may not have played rock, but some of his greatest hits ended up on the rock charts as crossovers.
Genesis did rock in the Gabriel years, take a listen to "The Knife."
Key word here - EARLY.
Take a look at who is in those inductions and it will become clear.
Yeah everybody worships the mighty “SF scene” but really other than psychedelic music (and not even the really good psychedelic music) it really wasn’t that exciting or influential.
Really if they just renamed it The Rolling Stone Hall of Fame they could be more truthful and open the door to a real rock hall and end all this silliness.
I won’t rest until the late, great G.G. Allin makes the hall. /sarc.
Sturmer couldn't hold a candle to Hackett.
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