Posted on 09/18/2005 6:51:20 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominations Leave Out Many Rock Acts Again
By: Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter
September 18,2005 9:41 A.M. EST
Cleveland,Ohio (AHN) - The nominees for the Class of 2006 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is filled with a lot of hold overs from previous years and virtually ignores a truckload of artists that many critics are shaking their heads over.
J.Geils Band, John Mellencamp, the Patti Smith Group, Chic, Joe Tex,Miles Davis, Cat Stevens, Blondie, the Paul Butterfield Band, the Dave Clark Five and the Sir Douglas Quintet will all have a chance to make it into the hall of fame located in Cleveland.
This year also marks the eighth chance for Black Sabbath, Lynyd Skynyrd gets their seventh chance,and the Sex Pistols and the Stooges all of which are on try number five.
Missing from the nomination list again this year include bands like Rush, Van Halen, Yes, Genesis, ELO, Joan Jett, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper, Heart, Deep Purple, Pat Benatar, and Duran Duran.
Nominees are picked by a 70-member committee of rock 'n' roll historians, journalists and label execs, with ballots then mailed to an international voting body of 700 music industry types for the final decision. The five to seven nominees that receive the most votes will be inducted into the Rock Hall next year.
"Wishing and Hoping?
Oh yeah, "Time" was a great one. The time has come today....
How about Status Quo, "Pictures Of Matchstick Men?"
Good one, NYA. Not exactly a feminist anthem, was it? Also "Brand New Me" and "Stay Awhile" and "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and "Son Of A Preacher Man" and many more.
Being not only a huge Brit invasion fan as a kid , but also an Anglophile , I know the names of course . You Turn Me On was Whitcomb's big hit , right ? I believe he has lived in the USA for many years . They just don't make characters liek this any more .
Zager and Evans "2525. A futuristic look.
" NEVER saw the big deal in Neil Peart to be honest "
Give me Bill Bruford any day !
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Lynyd Skynyrd doen'thave a prayer of getting in...ever.
Reason?...."Sweet Home Alabama">>>
and also ...
Red, White & Blue
We don't have no plastic L.A. Friends,
ain't on the edge of no popular trend.
Ain't never seen the inside of that magazine GQ.
We don't care if you 're a lawyer, or a texas oil man,
or some waitress busting ass in some liquor stand.
If you got Soul
We hang out with people just like you
My hair's turning white,
my neck's always been red,
my collar's still blue,
we've always been here
just trying to sing the truth to you.
Yes you could say
we've always been,
Red, White, and Blue
Ride our own bikes To Sturgis
we pay our own dues,
smoking camels, drinking domestic brews
You want to know where I have been
just look at my hands
Yeah, I've driven by the White House,
Spent some time in jail.
Momma cried but she still wouldn't pay my bail.
I ain't been no angel,
But even God, he understands.
My hair's turning white,
my neck's always been red,
my collar's still blue,
we've always been here
just trying to sing the truth to you.
Yes you could say
we've always been,
Red, White, and Blue
Yeah that's right!
My Daddy worked hard, and so have I,
paid our taxes and gave our lives
to serve this great country
so what are they complaining about
Yeah we love our families, we love our kids
you know it is love that makes us all so rich
That's where were at,
If they don't like it they can just
get the HELL out!
Yeah!
My hair's turning white,
my neck's always been red,
my collar's still blue,
we've always been here
just trying to sing the truth to you.
Yes you could say
we've always been,
Red, White, and Blue
"Blood on the Scarecrow" was the BEST pro-farmer, anti-bank statement ever written.......
One of Mellencamp's finest and I'm not a fan. That tune is scary good with the violin
Bands like Nazareth, Cream, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish and Scott McKenzie come to mind.
Right again, sushiman. Yep, Ian goes around doing some kind of "History Of Music" touring show these days. Very eccentric. There was a time in the first six months or so of 1964 that just about any British band could sell records in the US. Freddy and the Dreamers were proof of that. "I'm Telling You Now" and "Do The Freddy." Sheesh. Another of the all-time true greats from that era was The Yardbirds -- "Heart Full Of Soul" and "For Your Love" and "Shapes Of Things" and "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago." They were SO good. Having Jimmy Page in there didn't hurt.
Woody Guthrie - "Pretty Boy Floyd"
If you'll gather 'round me children
A story I will tell
About Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw
Oklahoma knew him well
It was in the town of Shawnee
On a Sunday afternoon
His wife beside him in their wagon
As into town they rode
There a deputy sheriff approached them
In a manner rather rude
Using vulgar words of language
And his wife she overheard
Well Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain
And the deputy grabbed his gun
And in the fight that followed
He laid that deputy down
Well he took to the trees and timber
To live a life of shame
Every crime in Oklahoma
Was added to his name
Yes he took to the trees and timber
By that Canadian river shore
But Pretty Boy found a welcome
At many a farmer's door
Yes there's many a starving farmer
The same old story's told
How that outlaw paid his mortgage
And saved their little home
Others tell you of a stranger
That came to beg a meal
And underneath his napkin
Left a thousand dollar bill
It was in Oklahoma city
It was on a Christmas Day
There came a whole carload of groceries
With a letter that did say
"Well they say that I'm an outlaw
They say that I'm a theif
Well here's a Christmas dinner
For the families on relief"
Now as through this life I've rambled
I've seen lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen
But as through this world you ramble
And as through this world you roam
You won't never find an outlaw
That'd drive a family from their home
Man, that is young. Not the guy I saw in Glendale about five years ago!
I remember seeing him on Shindig (Ian Whitcomb) with all the dancing Shindig girls.
Zager and Evans -- remember the full title was "In The Year 2525 (Terminus and Exordium)." They were just a bit full of themselves, weren't they? The Moody Blues also became a bit full of themselves, but in their early incarnation they had a great hit with "Go Now."
Didn't Bobby Sherman host that show?
I remember that same "Shindig," dennisw. You had to sit through the Shindogs and Bobby Sherman to get to the real acts. I also remember Peter and Gordon on there doing "Nobody I Know" and Peter Asher pretending to play that goofy double neck guitar.
NYA --Jimmy McNeil was host. Sherman was a performer.
"Knights in White Satin" was pretty popular also
YARDBIRDS were the best. My favorite group back then. Today they are a footnote. A tour done two years ago with two original members failed even though they had a rough tough new record out. What a shame. The Animals were also at the top. "Don't let me be misunderstood"
Alan Price got the co-writing credits for "House of the Rising Sun" and got rich off that. His solo is a cop off of jazz organist Jimmy Smith's "Walk on the Wild Side"
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