Last year, after inducting America's favorite Hep C carrier, Madonna, I was ready to call the Hall irrelevant. Not it's official.....
CLEVELAND - Run-D.M.C. could "Walk This Way" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.The 1980s rap act, along with Metallica and the Stooges are among the nine nominees for next year's hall of fame class, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced Monday.
The other nominees are guitarist Jeff Beck, singer Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, War, Bobby Womack, and disco and R&B group Chic, the only nominee back from last year's ballot.
The five leading vote-getters will be announced in January and inducted April 4, 2009, in Cleveland.
I don't have a problem with Metallica. In my mind, they meet the criteria for induction; they added something to the genre of rock and roll music and generally considered the band who resurected metal music. But Run DMC, who's contribution to the genre was a cover of an Aerosmith song?
In addition, the Hall's going to consider Jeff Beck over Stevie Ray Vaughn? Run DMC over Tupac?
War over Average White Band?
Still, no Rush?
Chic?
This is a joke.
4 comments:
Your knowledge of music is as weak as your knowledge of politics. Maybe you should try to actually educate yourself on the topics you choose to comment on before you continue to make a fool of yourself. SRV was a great guitarist, but Jeff Beck was influential WAY before SRV's time. And, SRV was only catapulted to his level of fame because he DIED. And Run D.M.C. had so much more to offer than a cover of Aerosmith. But, you wouldn't know anything about that.
You're such a moron!
You probably think Madonna should be in.
By the way, according to Wiki
Grammy's
Stevie Ray Vaughn 8
Jeff Beck 0
Rolling Stone's list of the greatest guitarists
Stevie Ray Vaughn #7
Jeff Beck # 14
Vaughn dies in his prime. Beck's career never had a prime.
At the Crossroads festival last summer, Beck wasn't even the best musician on stage. His bass player, Tai Wilkenfield was.
I'm not disagreeing that SRV was amazing. But, you obviously don't understand what the Hall of Fame is about. It's not a popularity contest. Its main goal is to celebrate influential artists. Artists who have an impact on Rock and Roll. And, obviously, you didn't "WIKI" or read any other source regarding Jeff Beck to see his history in the music business. Just one quote from Wikipedia -"Rock critic Piero Scaruffi has described Beck as "possibly the most influential guitarist in the history of rock music. One could say that rock music played with an electric guitar was invented by Jeff Beck. It was through him that the distortions, feedback, and many other techniques, that the rest of rock music did not rediscover until much later, became popular." And the only quote you do use only gives a pat on the back to Beck's bassist. Doesn't badmouth Beck in any way. And then you use the Grammy's as part of your yardstick. That's the most laughable part of your argument. The Grammy's are widely considered to be nothing more than a popularity contest. I supppose you believe SRV was more influential than Hendrix, Zeppelin, CCR - they never won a Grammy but are all considered to be foundations of Rock and Roll.
Yeah, Stevie is a guitar god. But Jeff Beck deserves to be in the Hall of Fame before him.
Please, read a book. Read anything.
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