Posted on 10/19/2013 5:06:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Billy Joel definitely belongs....Just listen to Miami 2017 or Captain Jack.
Kick ‘em all out! Make room for Zamfir, who’s been panned longer than some of these acts have been breathing
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is, like the U.S. Constitution, flawed. It needs a fundamental transformation, and I know just the man who could do it.
Rock’n’roll died with Buddy Holly. Everything since is Pop.
The HOF is a joke as long as they keep out Johnny Rivers.
Tommy Roe with his “Jam Up Jelly Tight” (How did it get past the censors?) is more rock and roll than all these Billy Joels and Rushes! (I thought that Rush was the radio shouter?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlUai6D7xh4
THIS IS EXTREMELY TRIVIAL!!!!
So it matters more than life itself. Get with the program.
Being excluded ought to be a badge of honor for a *real* musician.
Most "rock critics" have never been much more than musician wannabees and butt licks anyway.
I've seen and really liked some great rock musicians. Some of have been real dumb ass turds (or just screwed up) as people and others genuine classy people. I judge rock musicians on their music and performances, not their personal lives...and definitely not what critics or anyone else thinks. It's Rock 'n Roll, man.
Tommy Roe is another of those guys who played “pre-Sullivan” shows with the Beatles and was told that the guitar group sound would never go over in America (at a time that bands like the Ventures were already selling).
You tell 'em, John.
Never heard of him.
the article is pathetic...how anyone could talk about kicking people OUT of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without having Donna Summers (inducted this year) number one on the list leaves be yearning for less....
the fact donna summers is in the R&R HOF and a group like the Moody Blues are not proves what a joke that place is...
“Being excluded ought to be a badge of honor for a *real* musician.”
Now, yes. For a while it was putting good acts in, or at least what I would consider acceptable, if we are going to have a ‘rocknroll’ HF. Leaving out a bunch for sure. But after they started let all the complete drek in, why should a cool act want to be recognized by those pretentious mouthbreathers? Now you have all these cool acts who are in but they are stuck there on an equal footing to utter garbage. Can’t see why they would want to put themselves in that position.
Freegards
You’ve heard of Roland James who died the other day? I bet you’ve heard him!
NOT! I swear I did not. Never heard of him before I didn’t hear of him either. I have no clue who he is.
If for no other reason than “Already Gone”, I vote to keep the Eagles in the HoF.
I’d let ‘em in solely for the lyric, “I’d like to find your inner child and kick its’ little ass.”
My sentiments exactly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPzcZNgVfpA
On the basis of this guy even joking with the idea that the Eagles are not worthy, he should be tarred and feathered....
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