RnR Hall Of Fame Inductions

[Rob Not Bob]

About bloody time for Sabbath, Pistols and Skynyrd , still no Alice though ...

NEW YORK - Black Sabbath, Miles Davis and the Sex Pistols are among five

musical legends to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation will hold its induction ceremony

March 13 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, the organization announced

Monday.

Also to be inducted into the class of 2006: 1980s New Wave band Blondie and

Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, who founded A&M records in 1962, will receive a

lifetime achievement award in the non-performer category.

Inductees into the side-men category will be announced at a later date.

Musicians, industry professionals and journalists vote on the nominations.

Artists are eligible to be inducted into the Rock Hall after at least 25 years

have passed since their first record was released

[Del]

[Guest Low Roller]

I'm having a sense of deja vu with the nominations...

...and the tumbleweed picture was funny when Booche used it recently. Now it's just repetitive.

[Del]

...and the tumbleweed picture was funny when Booche used it recently. Now it's just repetitive.

Kind of like your anti-Slip rhetoric...

[Guest Low Roller]

Don't confuse rhetoric with plagiarism.

[AD]

Miles Davis = jazz, no?

Skynard = kinda crappy, no?

QE

[bradm]

Miles Davis = jazz, no?

Ostensibly, yes (you'll find his records in the Jazz section in record stores), but he veered 'way over into rock territory in the late '60s and early '70s (and even appeared at the Isle of Wight festival, along with The Who and Jimi Hendrix), and influenced a whole bunch of people in the rock world. I think putting him in the RnR HoF is more to do with acknowledging his influence on rock music than it has to do with him being a rock musician.

Aloha,

Brad

[AD]

good to know, thanks brad.

i never really 'got' miles. but that's cool that he's in there.

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[StoneMtn]

Skynard = kinda crappy, no?

No.

[AD]

hehe. never really did much for me. they've got the storied rock'n'roll history and stellar pedigree, but their songs don't seem all that groundbreaking or special to me.

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[ollie]

hehe. never really did much for me. they've got the storied rock'n'roll history and stellar pedigree, but their songs don't seem all that groundbreaking or special to me.

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Can't you smell that smell?

[AD]

I like Tuesday's Gone.

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[StoneMtn]

I know they're not really your thing AD. That's cool.

I dig the southern rock sound, though, including Molly Hatchet, Little Feat, The Allmans, ZZ Top, Delbert McClinton, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House...

and I think Skynyrd did some great versions of JJ Cale tunes. If you don't dig southern rock, though, Skynyrd would be painful as there's really no one more southern rockier.

[AD]

I've never really understood why I can't get into them, i like ABB, Crowes are in my top 3 bands all time... Little Feat are awesome...

Just can't quite put my finger on why LS doesn't do it for me. Oh well. Great honour for them though.

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[StoneMtn]

AD if you like the Black Crowes, check out I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House. They're like a newer, younger, better version of the Crowes.

[AD]

check out I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House. They're like a newer, younger, better version of the Crowes.

whoa now.

I will check them out. But I can't fathom a better rock and roll band than the Crowes unless The Faces are reborn and transported back to the 70s.

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[secondtube]

nice call on the Faces.

i'm not a skynyrd fan...but i guess they deserve to be there....their best songs have been covers though. (although i love gimme 3 steps)

Miles? Well, i couldn't have put it any better than Brad...that was perfect!

Edited November 29, 2005 by Guest

[TheGoodRev]

The song that first made me love Skynyrd was The Ballad of Curtis Lowe. Seek it out, ye non-believers, and be converted. I'm not big on their big hits, but they have a hell of a lot of album cuts that are hard-riffin, good-boogyin Southern Rock -> see Whiskey Rock A Roller, Workin For the MCA, etc. I skipped my high school graduation to see Skynyrd/Deep Purple/Ted Nugent at the Amphitheatre, and I'd do it again. Yeah, the 'Skynyrd' that tours now is a huge cheeseball of nostalgia trip, but it was a great show.

[peipunk]

Put me down for a :thumbup: on the Skynyrd. Lots of great songs and great playing, don't judge them just by Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird (which actually are great songs too, if you take a step back....now take another step back.... from 20 years of radio overkill). Tuesday's Gone from Dazed and Confused and Simple Man on Almost Famous were great soundtrack choices.

Useless trivia: Poison ripped off the riff from "I Know A Little" (Street Survivors) and used it in Unskinny Bop.

[Del]

if you take a step back....now take another step back....

Hilarious!

[MarcO]

I happily subscribe to writer Bob Lefsetz' newsletter and he often makes my day with his heart-on-his-sleeve withering commentary, although I don't always agree with him.

Here's his take on this year's inductees, for your consideration:

Okay, close the doors, nobody else can get in.

Don't argue with Miles Davis. If you've ever heard "In A Silent Way" you know that he deserves to be inducted way before Santana. And, "Bitches Brew" is way more adventurous than the work of at least half of those ALREADY IN the Hall. And, if you just want to go by who he had in his band, who he introduced to the scene, you can start with John McLaughlin and go all the way through Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, never mind Herbie Hancock. And Miles PLAYED the Fillmore East. Opening for Laura Nyro. Hey, where's SHE? If you don't include Laura Nyro before Blondie, then you don't know shit about music. Chris Stein and Debbie Harry could try FOREVER and not come up with a record half as good as "New York Tendaberry" or "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession". And, she wrote more hits than they HAD! But Laura Nyro's dead and forgotten. And seeing that David Geffen made his first million on her back, screwing her in the process, I don't expect HE'LL be lobbying for her induction. Then again, at least Laura's from New York. Where the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame epicenter/power center seems to be located. And the myopia of those in charge is evidenced by the induction of Blondie. I mean who's next, TELEVISION? Hell, "Marquee Moon" is a further adventure than anything Blondie did, but I don't think Tom Verlaine's bunch should be in the Hall Of Fame.

I happen to be a Blondie fan.

You can forget their Private Stock work. But, "Parallel Lines" was a great album. Not a MASTERPIECE, but a very good record. I LOVE the attitude in "Hanging On The Telephone". But the only element of pure genius on the damn platter is Robert Fripp's ethereal solo in "Fade Away and Radiate".

"Heart Of Glass" was a melding of rock and disco. Hell, it was originally entitled THAT DISCO SONG! For this, Blondie needs to be canonized? For making the world safe for Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy"? God, induct Steve Dahl before you let in Blondie. Or how about some deejays, like the dearly-departed Scott Muni, or John Peel even? Or B. Mitchell Reed. Or even Cousin Brucie! They truly impacted the landscape, not BLONDIE!

I liked "The Hardest Part", but "Eat To The Beat" was a disappointing follow-up. And the fact that a video was made for every track means that maybe futurist/seer Shep Gordon should be inducted, but not the band that executed HIS idea!

And then there's the not much better "Autoamerican"... Isn't there SOMEBODY who needs to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame before Blondie for popularizing reggae? Hell, Bob Marley had been doing it for YEARS before "The Tide Is High" caught on. Honoring Blondie is like honoring Pat Boone for doing cover versions of black tracks. Ditto, "Rapture". I can think of a whole HOST of rap artists who should be in the Hall before Blondie. So, they ripped off the man and made rap safe for the suburbs. Write 'em a check, don't induct them into the Hall Of Fame.

The Pistols are rock and roll. One album and out. This is a band that revolutionized rock, that couldn't stay together, profits be damned. Whereas Blondie froze out Frank Infante, so they could have more money for themselves. Scummy, don't you think?

I just don't get it. Sure, everybody rails about the Oscars. And the Grammys are a complete joke. But the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame was supposed to be above this, it was supposed to mean something.

I mean who's gonna induct Blondie? Martha Quinn, or one of the other original veejays who spun their videos? And what are they going to say? Debbie Harry was cute. Chris Stein had a knack for a hook. This gets you a table at a restaurant, not immortality.

Everybody knows that rock peaked twenty odd years ago, if that late. If we're scraping the bottom of the barrel like this, I say call it a day. I mean let Ronnie Van Zant and his buds in. THREE lead guitarists? Boozing it up and wreaking havoc across the land all the time writing music to drink and screw to. But, just because they started downtown, and were there when a bunch of old fart New York music executives were coming up that DOES NOT mean Blondie deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Hell, induct the REAL genius behind Blondie's success, producer Mike Chapman. But no, since he's seen as an arrogant prick, this wunderkind gets no recognition yet his proteges do. RIDICULOUS!

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[Sheebs]

It always blows me away when the inductees are annouced every year. half the bands I would've just assumed were already in the rnr hall of fame.

crazy