{"id":21698,"date":"2025-02-12T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=21698"},"modified":"2025-02-12T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:10:04","slug":"re-the-rock-hall-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/12\/re-the-rock-hall-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-The Rock Hall Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bob,<\/p>\n<p>As always, you are a Stellar writer. Thanks for being in our corner all these years.<br \/>\nOne day I hope we can meet!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again,<\/p>\n<p>Simon Kirke<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a backwards and upside down world when the RnRHOF gets it this right. What\u2019s next, the Grammy\u2019s becoming relevant again?!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks as always for what you do.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Covert<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Joe Cocker? He opened Woodstock One!!!! With an insanely ferocious mind-bending performance. What else do you need to know?<\/p>\n<p>I worked with Joe for almost 15 years. Many records. 33 countries TWICE touring. Produced him, arranged for him.. Opened Woodstock 2 in \u201994, where I was the MD and keyboardist, to 600k I heard.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of our founding fathers of rock and in my opinion the greatest white blues singer of all time. He belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of titans of rock\/blues singers. Period.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he was ignored by this institution for years. I dare any of you to go down the list of previous inductees and tell me how many could hold a candle to Joe. Not many.<\/p>\n<p>So I hear this news with mixed emotions. I\u2019m confident he\u2019ll get in, but he\u2019s GONE. This would have meant SO much to him. And he was a man that didn\u2019t need much. Didn\u2019t care about money. A gentle genius, a reluctant star. But when the song started, get the F out of the way, HERE COMES COCKER!!!!! Frikking BULLDOZER<\/p>\n<p>Yet he was ignored all these years while severely questionable artists were inducted. Evidently there is new blood in the R&amp;R Museum nominating staff\u2026maybe that\u2019s why we see more names that make sense for once.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll just look at the bright side. Sitting in the studio with him, hearing that voice every day made me reluctantly agree to go on the road TWICE\u2026mainly just to hear that voice. Europe loved him. He was a deity in Germany and France. I saw the world with him. We did a couple of promo tours also that was just the two of us going to radio stations, piano and vocal. Great hotels great dinners great conversations about history and much laughter. Then another gig. That\u2019s all he needed. Jesus was he unbelievable. I always had the best seat in the house with his vocals CRANKED in my monitors.<\/p>\n<p>We had a deep musical connection and he was a complete legend.<\/p>\n<p>Hope he gets his due, finally. Miss ya Joe and congratulations to you and your family and all the people that supported him, musicians, crew&#8230; especially Ray Neapolitain who was Joe\u2019s shadow and protector for decades. Chris Lord-Alge was instrumental on these records and who originally brought me into the fold. And Roger Davies, his brilliant manager, who championed him and was tireless in getting him back in the flow.<\/p>\n<p>Tears now. He was such a dear man with a voice and soul from somewhere else.<br \/>\nI wish he could\u2019ve seen this.<\/p>\n<p>CJ Vanston<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Bob<br \/>\nI am disappointed that Russ Solomon\/Tower Rscords are never nominated in the non music category.<br \/>\nStan Goman<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but, worthy as these artists may be,\u00a0 not one\u00a0 can come anywhere near the achievements and impact\u00a0of Phil Collins who has been omitted\u00a0yet again:<\/p>\n<p>Three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>He has sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated 150\u00a0million records sold worldwide, making him one of the world&#8217;s best selling artists.<\/p>\n<p>He has won eight\u00a0 Grammys.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of only three recording artists, along with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson to\u00a0have sold over 100\u00a0million records both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band.<\/p>\n<p>This smacks of a personal vendetta and makes\u00a0the Hall an illegitimate club, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Flattery<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I agree with you \u2013 it\u2019s about time Bad Company got nominated.\u00a0 I just voted for them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To answer your question about how they got it right, I\u2019ll sum it up in four words: Jann Wenner is gone.\u00a0 Wenner getting kicked off the board is the best thing that could have happened to the Hall; he and his boomer mentality toward music was holding the voting and induction process back.\u00a0 Too many great acts haven\u2019t gotten in simply because Jann didn\u2019t like them.\u00a0 Now we\u2019re seeing some of that being rectified.\u00a0 Here\u2019s hoping that we start to see some greater recognition of heavy metal and prog rock; Wenner hates both genres, and as a result both are underrepresented.\u00a0 That\u2019s actually my only gripe about today\u2019s nominations \u2013 no Iron Maiden.\u00a0 They\u2019re one of the most influential metal bands of all time, and they absolutely should be in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take care,<\/p>\n<p>Wes R. Benash<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Love the nominees list.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026. (isn\u2019t there always a \u201cbut\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Why are we still waiting on Little Feat?<br \/>\nWhy are we still waiting on Los Lobos?<br \/>\nWhy are we still waiting on The Meters?<\/p>\n<p>And\u2026. Carol Kaye in the Musical Excellence category. A true pathfinder.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Toth<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>AGREE! \u00a0 Rock Hall, nailed it \u00a0 \u00a0As a voter, gonna be tough for me to pick my top 7 but without debate f*cking BAD COMPANY sits at the top of my ballot \u00a0 \u00a0I too\u2026.cant deny. \u00a0 Hope they stroll right in there this Fall \u00a0 \u00a0Should be a great induction ceremony with Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and the other inductees. \u00a0 \u00a0Look forward to it! \u00a0 It\u2019s all part of my Rock \u2019n Roll Fantasy, Bob<\/p>\n<p>Gary Spivack<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Bad Company\/PR all the way, and overall, I agree it is\u00a0a solid list.\u00a0 Everyone will have their &#8220;what about,&#8221; and mine are Iron Maiden and Jethro Tull. I don&#8217;t get why JT is so radioactive to that organization. I want to add to your comment on Oasis.\u00a0 The US and worldwide ticket\u00a0sales are enormous. (not just &#8220;over there&#8221;).\u00a0 Multiple nights in stadiums in the US, with tickets blowing out in most cases in one day.\u00a0 They had enough requests in the Ticketmaster queue for SIX Rose Bowls, with only time to perform for two.\u00a0 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.<\/p>\n<p>John Dittmar<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Tupac Shakur&#8217;s biggest song was a sample of a Joe Cocker song.<\/p>\n<p>Shakur went into the RRHOF eight years before Cocker even got nominated.<\/p>\n<p>As good\u00a0a reason as any for Joe to get in.<\/p>\n<p>Marty Bender<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Where is Styx ???<\/p>\n<p>Also glad to see Bad Company finally nominated I had the pleasure of representing them for a while and they are long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>Also Black Crowes well deserved had the pleasure of promoting them even before they were the Crowes when they were Mr Crowe&#8217;s Garden and also the two sold out shows at Centerstage in Atlanta that were filmed by NFL Films and for the two nights they were joined by the one &amp; only Chuck Leavell on keyboards. Mark DiDia here at RLM has done a masterful job with the guys since they reformed a few years back. Rich &amp; Chris have been stars since the day I first met them back in the &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p>So I will try and make it if Bad Co &amp; Black Crowes both deservedly are inducted.<\/p>\n<p>Styx belongs there with them as do The Marshall Tucker Band and The Outlaws.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Brusco<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>What about AMERICA. \u00a050+ years and still rocking.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Morey<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Great breakdown of this year&#8217;s nominees. Please know that I&#8217;m going to continue\u00a0my campaign for Tommy James, Connie Francis, and Neil Sedaka to be inducted.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Alexenburg<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>The Knack aren\u2019t in, but The White Stripes should be?<\/p>\n<p>Jer Gervasi<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Good for all of them, but I\u2019m always holding out hope for Los Lobos, and I\u2019m always disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Re: Black Crowes &#8211; Listen to some of Rich Robinson&#8217;s solo stuff, especially the live albums, and you&#8217;ll see (again) how great he is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Woodstock Sessions Vol. 3\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4LaADbRAsiapukpluMNOgM?si=ZvQOXEK3RZi6NeGrIdMOZQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Woodstock Sessions Vol. 3\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4LaADbRAsiapukpluMNOgM?si=ZvQOXEK3RZi6NeGrIdMOZQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perry Resnick<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Yeah Bob. I\u2019m w you on most. But how in the WORLD was Chubby Checker not in from Day 1!<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards,<br \/>\nBobby Tarantino<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Bob, for your perfect take on Joe Cocker. His first two albums are absolute classics that I play to this day. Also, Hitchcock Railway is a personal favorite. Shoulda been a hit!<\/p>\n<p>David Rogers<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Billy Idol&#8217;s start was concurrent with The Pistols and is one of the few rock artists who could do it live.\u00a0 For decades.\u00a0 I was an early supporter.\u00a0 BadCo is\u00a0so\u00a0overdue as is Cocker.\u00a0 Maybe even Belushi who did Cocker better than Joe!\u00a0 LOL.<\/p>\n<p>One day I will tell you the story when Rogers stopped a show to yell at me from the stage.<\/p>\n<p>It will be an awards show I would actually watch.<\/p>\n<p>Good news.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Gross<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I know when I think of Rock and Roll; the true innovators and change-the-world impact, I always think of Outkast. You know, Chuck Berry, Beatles, Springsteen, Outkast. Like that. You&#8217;re right, they nailed it.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Estes<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Agree about &#8220;Eyes Without A Face&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Munday<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get it, the Hall must be diverse. All I can say is if you&#8217;re choosing a Latin act, this is the one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Was relaxing in the Caribbean when a track from Mana was played over the PA. Fell in love. Was before Shazam so I had to ask someone who worked at the resort who it was.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t say I like everything by them but one of the live records is fantastic. En Vivo if memory serves.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Sussman<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Agree &#8211; best nominated\u00a0class in ages. I was absolutely shocked to see Phish get the recognition\u00a0they deserve.<br \/>\nBUT WHERE THE HELL IS JETHRO TULL?????<\/p>\n<p>Rich Madow<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>hey Bob&#8230;..damn, I didn&#8217;t even know Bad Company wasn&#8217;t in yet! I agree, my first band when I was 14 covered &#8220;Can&#8217;t Get Enough&#8221;, &#8220;Movin&#8217; On&#8221; and one more that I can&#8217;t remember.\u00a0 I think they were the first songs we ever learned!\u00a0 I personally loved &#8220;Burning Sky&#8221; but I don&#8217;t think that was a hit per se.\u00a0 and I can&#8217;t think of &#8220;Feel Like Making Love&#8221; without thinking of Susanna Hoffs&#8217; cover of it on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Farley<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Still missing<\/p>\n<p>J Geils Band<\/p>\n<p>Grand Funk<\/p>\n<p>Brian Pastoria<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Yes a much better list than usual! But where is Ian Hunter and\/or Mott The Hoople?<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Steal<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>OutKast \u201creally only one big album\u201d\u2026are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>Stankonia sold over 500K first week and had a #1 hit in Ms. Jackson. It\u2019s one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It\u2019s sold over 5 million albums.<\/p>\n<p>Speakerboxxx\/Love Below is diamond. Oh, and it won the Grammy for Best Album. Oh, and \u201cHey Ya!\u201d Is considered one of the greatest songs of all time and went to #1 as did \u201cThe Way You Move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire Atlanta rap industry, which up until Kendrick took over, was dominating the charts for years is what it is in part because of OutKast.<\/p>\n<p>I could keep going but please put some respect on their name.<\/p>\n<p>Joah Spearman<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Bob, have you heard the acoustic\u00a0version of &#8220;Jealous Again&#8221;?\u00a0 The breakdown in that version hits twice as hard(pun intended)<\/p>\n<p>It was only released as a Japanese CD single back in 1990.\u00a0 I worked at a &#8220;Listen before you buy&#8221; CD store and discovered it that way.\u00a0 Cost me $20 AFTER my employee discount!<\/p>\n<p>I feel it&#8217;s better than the album released version.\u00a0 Glad it&#8217;s on YouTube for people to enjoy:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZIyOLVpTcSY<\/p>\n<p>Would love to know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>Craig<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>First, I can&#8217;t resist a little boasting about my cousin, Rob Hyman.\u00a0 Rob plays all over\u00a0She&#8217;s So Unusual,\u00a0and he co-wrote &#8220;Time After Time&#8221; with Cyndi.\u00a0 And all these years later, The Hooters play to huge crowds in Europe.\u00a0 Feel-good rock and roll.<\/p>\n<p>As for a blatant omission, I continue to be baffled and irked by the Hall leaving out Warren Zevon.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;re well.<\/p>\n<p>John Hyman<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I love Billy Idol and I say this every time he&#8217;s mentioned in this context: \u00a0Steve Stevens is one of the most underrated guitarists (of which there are many). \u00a0He is inextricably linked with solo Billy Idol&#8217;s sound, essence, and ferocity. \u00a0\u00a0I hope he gets his shout out and like past years I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll shred alongside him as always during the performances.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Rotter<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Typical RRHOF- Watch Mariah get in before a band like Iron Maiden that influenced so many in and generations of actual \u201crock\u201d and still sell out stadium tours decades later.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Frese<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>yep, you got it right this time.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;em all in.<\/p>\n<p>What a show that&#8217;d be!<\/p>\n<p>Might restore people&#8217;s faith in the hall<\/p>\n<p>John Monroe<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Agree so much about Bad Co. for Paul Rodgers but what about Free. \u00a0All Right Now remains my All-time fave tune.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Bearak<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>It really pisses me off that Boz Scaggs who at 80 is still going strong and is totally invisible to the Hall. He dominated smooth rock, jazz and blue eyed soul with so many hits in\u00a070s and 80s and he is a great blues guy as well. Why has he never been nominated? He and Wenner were even good friends, WTF?<\/p>\n<p>Alan Segal<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Some great hot takes, but lemme say, OUTKAST deserve to be in that hall of fame 100%&#8230; sure Hey Ya was their one crossover smash hit, but it came at the END of their career after a decade of creating truly influential, unforgettable music. To this day, Bombs Over Baghdad remains of the hardest tracks to EVER be released to radio (before it was banned).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers from Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Malinsky<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m chuckling to myself. You felt the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally got it mostly right. I definitely love that Joe Cocker and Billy Idol are in the running. The latter\u2019s \u201cWhite Wedding\u201d is one of the best rock songs ever. Then, I read on Facebook that the legendary music commentator J.D. Considine wrote, \u201cHonestly, I don&#8217;t think I\u2019ve ever been less excited by a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot than I am by this one.\u201d It just goes to show you can\u2019t please everybody. Chubby Checker should have been one of the early inductees and I know this is sacrilegious, but Pat Boone should be in there too. It\u2019s a hall of fame and Boone was very famous for a longtime for his Rock and Roll efforts like \u201cSpeedy Gonzales\u201d and \u201cTwo Hearts.&#8221; \u00a0Anyway, I\u2019m not here to plead his case\u2026I\u2019m just saying if non-Rockers like Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton and Jay Z are in there, why not one of the early rockers who\u2019s still here and able to accept his award. I\u2019m just rambling\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>-Bill Carpenter<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Paul Rodgers is finally nominated? OK, it\u2019s a legit organization now<\/p>\n<p>Gary Lang<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Wow &#8211; good choices I agree!!!<\/p>\n<p>Beth Black<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still waiting for Gram Parsons!<\/p>\n<p>Gram Parsons<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>While I do appreciate the Hall making an effort, it&#8217;s clear that Metal is disrespected in the HOF.<\/p>\n<p>IRON MAIDEN should have been in the right\u00a0after Black Sabbath was inducted.\u00a0 They&#8217;re still selling out arenas and stadiums all over the world.\u00a0 The only metal band that can contend with Maiden is Metallica.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s it.\u00a0\u00a02025 is their 50th\u00a0anniversary.\u00a0 HOW are they still so dominant?\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter, they are.<\/p>\n<p>TOOL &#8211; Still crushing and still changing the game while selling out every place they\u00a0play.\u00a0 There is nothing like TOOL.<\/p>\n<p>Motorhead &#8211; Lemmy was legit and provided so much to music.<\/p>\n<p>Dio &#8211; unmatched<\/p>\n<p>Pantera &#8211; Pure stomping grit.\u00a0 Worth the nod.<\/p>\n<p>Alice in Chains&#8230;.yes, they&#8217;re in the grunge genre, but there is a lot of metal in their\u00a0music.\u00a0 If Nirvana and PJam are in, SoundGarden is nominated, how is AIC overlooked?<\/p>\n<p>Slayer &#8211; reset the stage with Metallica and Megadeth back in the day and is deserving.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe some of the artists that are in over the ones listed above.\u00a0 Logically, it doesn&#8217;t make sense yet, but here we are.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m angry.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Grandi<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Am I missing something or are you? Is Lowell George and \/or Little Feat in the HOF? Love your writing but this is a glaring omission, \u00a0Paul Poirier<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a &#8220;Rock and Roll&#8221; hall of fame, or even a 20th century music hall of fame, it is The Music Industry Hall of fame, and who gives a sh*t about a corporate hall of fame?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Kalill<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Still waiting for Procol Harum to get the nod.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who thinks they\u2019re just \u201cA Whiter Shade Of Pale\u201d needs to hear albums like \u201cShine On Brightly,\u201d \u201cA Salty Dog,\u201d and \u201cGrand Hotel.\u201d Classical as well as R&amp;B\u00a0influence for sure, but they had\u00a0their own spin on prog.<\/p>\n<p>Hank Stone<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Totally in concurrence with you, Bob, on this year&#8217;s\u00a0Rock &amp; \u00a0Roll Hall of Fame nominees but it doesn&#8217;t mean nothing to me until Little Feat are inducted. You don&#8217;t have to sell a gazillion records to be great, just to be famous.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Field<\/p>\n<p>Shelby, MI<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Outkast, Mariah Carey, Chubby Checker and Billy Idol\u2026but STILL No Warren Zevon, No J.Geils, No Procol Harum?<\/p>\n<p>Hilariously and idiotically absurd.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read and reread the \u201ccriteria\u201d numerous times, and when you do that, these selections, year after year, are even more ludicrous and mind numbing .<\/p>\n<p>Talk about a clown show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Dessau<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>None of them except Chubby Checker\u00a0deserve to get in before\u00a0The Guess Who and Tommy James!<\/p>\n<p>jeffsackstennis<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Agree 100%. Though, based on how you formatted this, I thought TOUGH NOOGIES was a band!<\/p>\n<p>Peter Zizzo<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Bad Company..finally. I just put on their first album on Amazon Music!!! Made my day. The others are good also. And yes, Mariah isn&#8217;t Rock and Roll but there&#8217;s precedent-Whitney Houston. This brings me hope. Next up:<\/p>\n<p>Jethro Tull<\/p>\n<p>Ian Hunter\/Mott the Hoople<\/p>\n<p>Garth Brooks<\/p>\n<p>Randy Schaaf<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the Rock Hall of Fame is that it&#8217;s the same &#8220;hall&#8221; for the &#8220;absolute genius acts&#8221; (The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, Dylan, Bowie, The Beach Boys, Hendrix, Led Zep, The Doors, Elton John, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Springsteen, Eagles, Billy Joel, Prince, U2, Chicago) and the &#8220;very good but nowhere on the same level&#8221; acts (pretty much everyone else they&#8217;ve ever inducted). The criteria should be &#8220;Did they have at least 20 GREAT (not just good) songs?&#8221;&#8211; none of this vague crap about how &#8220;influential&#8221; they were. And they need to be ROCK acts&#8211; not fantastic &#8220;pop&#8221; acts such as The Supremes, Madonna, etc., many of whom also had 20 great songs, but it&#8217;s not &#8220;rock&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Mark B. Spiegel<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Warren Zevon deserves to be in? (I do). Will he ever get in?<\/p>\n<p>Steve Elliott<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re so right about Paul and BadCo! \u00a0I had the pleasure of selling Paul\u2019s Velvel release Now &amp; Live while managing the east coast for Indies distributor Navarre. \u00a0Paul was a joy to work with and was so cool with the young sales reps who weren\u2019t aware of Bad Company\u2019s history or material.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Heyert<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Agreed, agreed, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Also #1: I&#8217;m quite partial to Bad Co&#8217;s &#8220;Electricland,&#8221; and how Paul Rodgers sings that seemingly innocuous, almost offhanded &#8220;yeahhh&#8221; at its outset. No one else could even grasp how to do\u00a0it like that.<\/p>\n<p>Also #2: Tough Noogies is the best band name that never was.<\/p>\n<p>(Ok, ok, there *is* at least one TN band out there, but you know what I mean.)<\/p>\n<p>Mike Mettler<\/p>\n<p>Editor, Analog Planet<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>The Rock &amp;Roll Hall of Shame. Bad Company and Joe Cocker should definitely be there. They played Rock &amp;Roll. What started out as you know as a place to not only honor but help the originators of the music pay their bills for the lack of $ and a place where Ahmet and Jen could party has turned out to be a place of shame and disrespect for the art of Rock &amp;Roll.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Donsanto<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Blue Oyster Cult should also be considered. If the Hall is looking for innovation, look no further than Albert Bouchard&#8217;s drumming on Tyranny &amp; Mutation.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Quinn<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Brian Eno should be in as a solo artist and producer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Devo should be in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit of a stretch, but Wire should be considered.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>My hobby horse for years for someone never even nominated has been Teena Marie.\u00a0 Maybe her list of hits (and only a couple of pop crossovers) puts her right on the border.\u00a0 But you can&#8217;t ignore the courage it took to sue Motown for her independence.\u00a0 Every artist held back by his\/her record company owes her a debt for firing the first shot against the old order.\u00a0 As influential to the music world as Curt Flood was for baseball. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Trapasso<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m shocked Bad Company wasn&#8217;t already in the Hall of Fame! I met Paul Rodgers at Apple Music when we interviewed him for a radio show I was a producer on, and he is a sweetheart and definitely walking rock n&#8217; roll history. His wife and dogs and the whole entourage\u00a0came into the studio and they were all so very generous and kind. Bout time! What a voice.<\/p>\n<p>Kela Parker<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>OutKast doesn&#8217;t have a bad album.\u00a0They&#8217;re the Zeppelin of Hip Hop except their first album is\u00a0in through the out door\u00a0and their last album is zeppelin I\u00a0&#8230; which is a convoluted\u00a0way of saying that their entire discography is essentially flawless, a rarity in music. Maybe not everyone was paying attention but that doesn&#8217;t make it not so.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Richmond<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what I thought first thing upon seeing the nominees..Bad Co., Joy Division\u2026 some good news today!<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I met Chubby Checker at the K-Tel 25th anniversary party in Plymouth, MN. \u00a0He came up to me and started chatting away like he was my best buddy! \u00a0I was kind of shocked at the time as I was an invited guest. \u00a0Little did I know that he was practicing his speech on me that he was abount to give in 10 minutes after he did his monologue with me. \u00a0\u00a0One thing he did point out to me (and later to everyone else) was that he was the first one in rock n&#8217; roll to create and produce the song and dance that have separated dance partners. \u00a0The Twist!<\/p>\n<p>Donald Kaen<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Chubby Checker had several other big rock and roll hits besides \u201cThe Twist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He should have been voted in years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Marshall Tucker Band should be nominated. There also should be a Rock Hall \u201coldies\u201d category that includes DJs. A long-running oldies program on Eastern Long Island was \u201cSock Hop Saturday Night.\u201d It should be in, with its DJ Mark Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Jim Rowbotham<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Amazing what happens when you get rid of Wenner. It&#8217;s like the COMMANDERS getting rid of Snyder.<\/p>\n<p>If they can do JOY DIVISION\/NEW ORDER, then they should have been able to do FREE\/BAD COMPANY,<\/p>\n<p>but at least the voice of Paul Rodgers has a chance to be where it belongs.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Pates<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Procol Harum is deserving of induction more than ANY OF THESE NOMINEES! ANY!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d put Free in before Bad Company!<\/p>\n<p>And, STILL no Wynonie Harris!!!!<\/p>\n<p>F*CK the RRHOF. TWICE!!!<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Kiley<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Little Feat&#8230; \u00a0Talk about an omission travesty!<\/p>\n<p>Jay Romanoff<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>disgraceful some of these mediocre bands getting in before the great J. Geils Band. \u00a0I will not insult them by naming songs or albums let alone mentioning the American Mick Jagger- Peter Wolf. \u00a0Also one of the best live bands ever! \u00a0The sports Halls of Fames \u00a0are letting eveyrone in and the R and R is going to snuff the Geils?????? Sickening.<\/p>\n<p>Winny in MA<\/p>\n<p>(Brian Winston)<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Bad Company and Joe Cocker, just their longevity is amazing and the great records still stand up.<\/p>\n<p>Black Crowes, the authenticity of their sound and the song writing is reason enough, but there were so many members who contributed over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Chubby Checker, speaking of longevity, and done through massive musical changes over many decades.<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest, I hope they realize how lucky they are to be placed alongside the many, many lifetime performing songwriters already inducted. Acts like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and so many more are in a hall of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>James Leasing.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>The B-52\u2019s are a BLATANT OMISSION!!<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Arzt<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Blue Oyster Cult is still on the missing names list.<\/p>\n<p>And not because perhaps the greatest earworm in R&amp;R history belongs to them. \u00a0Because aside from having deep lyrics worth paying attention to and not just singing along with, they purveyed some of the earliest forms of heavy metal and put on tight as a drum music without acting out or histrionics. \u00a0Their first decade was chock full of exceptional music, both on record as well as live. And they\u2019re still doing it more than 50 years later. \u00a0Don Roeser \/ Buck Dharma is an extraordinary guitarist.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Fish.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Agree unbelievable. I\u2019d personally given up hope. Lots of things changing it seems\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Adam Howell<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>WARREN ZEVON<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Schupbach<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Yet another nominee list and some glaring omissions. Here&#8217;s some of my hopefuls.<\/p>\n<p>Big Star<br \/>\nThe Replacements<br \/>\nThe Raspberries\/Eric Carmen<br \/>\nThe Turtles<br \/>\nHusker Du<br \/>\nBlack Flag<br \/>\nGreg Kihn<br \/>\nThe Long Ryders<\/p>\n<p>I have more but time prevents me from listing them all.<br \/>\nBut, for what it&#8217;s worth, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame became irrelevant when they got too greedy with some rap acts that didn&#8217;t deserve it and too poppy when they let in Madonna and Janet Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Peace<\/p>\n<p>Tim Clary<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I concur with your thoughts. Had never previously heard of\u00a0MAN\u00c1 until today. I like their music.<\/p>\n<p>How is Chubby Checker &#8211; one of the pillars of Rock &amp; Roll \u2014 not already in the Rock Hall? \u201cThe Twist\u201d hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 twice in the 60\u2019s! Glad he\u2019s still alive to receive the honor if inducted.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Seattle so am particularly excited about Soundgarden. Took me a long time to appreciate their greatness. Hopefully, this opens the door for Alice In Chains, too. Those songs sound every bit as good today as they did 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for always giving us your honest take!<\/p>\n<p>Paul Francis<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>But not<\/p>\n<p>The Poet Of Havana; Carlos Varela?<\/p>\n<p>Or Juan Luis Guerra and Groupo 440?<\/p>\n<p>Rob<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>What does Bryan Adams have to do to get nominated ?<\/p>\n<p>100 million album sales not enough?<\/p>\n<p>45 year career?<\/p>\n<p>4 number one hits when number ones actually counted?<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Grammy, Golden Globe Academy Award nominations<\/p>\n<p>Still touring the world at 65 &#8211; playing to sold out venues on this current Australian tour &#8211; and sounding as great as ever<\/p>\n<p>Staggering.<\/p>\n<p>Leith Forrest<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen billy idol live? Dude is a performer! I saw him at bridge school 2001 for the first time ever. He stole the show. Absolutely stole the show. He was amazing and its worth noting the other performers. Other performers included:<\/p>\n<p>Pearl jam performing a great post 9\/11 set,<\/p>\n<p>Dave Matthews<\/p>\n<p>Neil Young<\/p>\n<p>REM<\/p>\n<p>Tracey Chapman<\/p>\n<p>Ben Harper<\/p>\n<p>Jill Sobule (who is surprisingly good live).<\/p>\n<p>And billy idol just stole the show. his performance was outstanding and memorable. I saw him again at Riot Fest in maybe 2016-2018 and again he was amazing. The dude is just so great on stage. I mean who doesn&#8217;t love shouting, &#8220;Get Laid Get F*cked!&#8221; at a rock n roll show.<\/p>\n<p>John Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>And yet again, still no Little Feat. Billy, Fred, Kenny and Sam, still carrying the torch for Lowell, Richie and Paul. Still playing music, still jammin\u2019 with everybody that\u2019s anybody, just like they\u2019ve been doing for years.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis York<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Smashing Pumpkins should be in before Soundgarden but Billy Corgan is a huge a**hole and doesn\u2019t curry any favors with his peers.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Baker<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Totally agree with you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Live on Joe Cocker!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What about Supertramp? Roger Hodgson&#8217;s songs have endured for over 50 years and are being remade by rap artists, and other genres as well.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s really the song that makes a band great&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Linda<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Little Feat!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Larry Seiden<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>The Black Crowes ARE that band. Chris and Rich ARE those guys\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>So amazing when they get it right.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s to Rock \u2018N\u2019 Mother F*cking Roll\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Jed Weitzman<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>The Bad Brains need to be in there.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Farrell<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Please not Mariah Carey. \u00a0Like Whitney Houston, she has zero rock \u2019n\u2019 roll in her blood, her songs, her attitude. \u00a0Is there a screaming guitar anywhere in her catalog? \u00a0Whereas Outkast has the attitude, some sense of rebellion (although not as strong as NWA or Run DMC). \u00a0This should not be the \u201cPop Music Hall of Fame\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>Mark Netter<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>What about the GUESS WHO!!!<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Vartanian<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t see how you can induct Bad Company and ignore Free. I wonder why the Hall didn\u2019t just do another Small Faces\/Faces thing.<\/p>\n<p>Phish is a smug yuppie cover band with a braindead following. Name one Phish song &#8211; I dare you.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t give me any of that \u201cbut Trey Anastasio can really play\u201d business &#8211; so could Guy Lombardo, Dudley Moore and Ted Nugent. So what.<\/p>\n<p>Vince Welsh<br \/>\nPresident<br \/>\nTeacher Education Institute, Inc<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Have to agree with you, I like a lot of the nominees that are to be inducted this year.<\/p>\n<p>I have pushed for Huey Lewis &amp; the News over the past few years. Sure, not a pure rocker but then again I can name so many others in the hall that don&#8217;t meet the criteria either&#8230;thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Bruce<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Heart of Rock n Roll, pretty good tune in itself. Too bad Huey can&#8217;t sing anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Phish, I think you meant to say, \u201cThey exist in their own world, not playing by everybody\u2019s rules, and succeeding TABOOT, TABOOT!\u201d \u00a0IYKYK.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, as always, for your commentaries,<\/p>\n<p>The Wilshire Boulevard Temple Shofar Blower<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Dorf<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Bob: Don&#8217;t forget about Jan &amp; Dean!! Love you stuff!! Greg C. \u00a0Chandler, AZ<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>A step in the right direction with these choices. For sure Bad Company must be in the Hall and Joe Cocker. But the rest \u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Certainly before most of these we must see.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Zevon<\/p>\n<p>Supertramp<\/p>\n<p>ELP<\/p>\n<p>King Crimson<\/p>\n<p>Steve Winwood Solo<\/p>\n<p>Paul Weller<\/p>\n<p>Jethro Tull<\/p>\n<p>Little Feat<\/p>\n<p>and so many more before most of these nominees<\/p>\n<p>Barry Levinson<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>What about Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings ?<\/p>\n<p>Their bands The Guess Who and Bachmam-Turner-Overdrive ?<\/p>\n<p>What about classics American Woman, You Ain\u2019t Seen Nothing Yet, Taking Care Of Business and on and on ??<\/p>\n<p>Does Canada really have to become USA\u2019s 51st state for these guys to get any consideration ???<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 M\u00e9nard<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Other than Joe Cocker (yay), I fall into the Tough Noogies category.<\/p>\n<p>The main flaw in the Hall of Fame voting is not their inclusion of acts that might not be &#8220;rock&#8221; but rather their skipping around in time. \u00a0The Baseball Hall of Fame adheres to a timeline. Players are considered chronologically. It makes sense. A Derek Jeter would never be inducted before a Babe Ruth. But in the R&amp;RHOF+M, Rush is in but King Crimson is not. That&#8217;s crazy.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the question of what exactly is the criteria? There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the nominating process. Regardless of my personal feelings, by any standards, hits, longevity, relevance (Live From Daryl&#8217;s House), influence, Hall &amp; Oates (2014) and Chicago (2016) deserved to be in LONG before they actually made it.<\/p>\n<p>My personal list of unconscionable snubs: Warren Zevon, Jethro Tull, Procol Harum, Little Feat and Los Lobos.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the voting process which caused me to give up my charter membership in protest last year, it&#8217;s still a great experience to visit the R&amp;RHOF+M. There are a lot of artifacts in there that give me goosebumps.<\/p>\n<p>William Nollman<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>A damn shame they made the black crowes wait this long \u2013 loved their cover of \u201cGirl From the North Country\u201d at the Newport Folk Festival \u2013 Just the brothers on that one.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Vonweltin<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>You nailed it Bob! I couldn\u2019t agree more including Bad Company, Cindy Lauper &amp; Phish and the first Gen X album and Joe Cocker ( a crime he is not on already).<\/p>\n<p>bkatchinson<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a great version of Joe Cocker covering Gregg Allman\u2019s Midnight Rider.\u00a0 Totally different, more upbeat and RnB inflected. This is an example of a great song being reinterpreted by another artist who puts their stamp on this classic!<\/p>\n<p>Tim Pringle<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long felt that Bad Company should be in the RRHOF, Paul Rodgers is my favorite R&amp;R singer, but I was taken aback to learn that Joe Cocker isn&#8217;t in already. \u00a0You&#8217;re right they both MUST be inducted. \u00a0I have other favorites that aren&#8217;t in yet, but I&#8217;ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hutchinson<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Oasis and Outcast 100% should get in. Maybe it\u2019s my millennial bias but Oasis really was as big as The Beatles\u2026for about a year. But still, Morning Glory is a great album with hit after hit. They didn\u2019t really make it out of the 90\u2019s but they cemented their status\u00a0in the alt rock genre. Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger is one of my favorite songs of all time.<\/p>\n<p>As for Outcast, you\u2019re wrong about only one big album. ATLiens, Aquemini and the double album were all massive. Their influence in the hiphop world is wildly\u00a0underrated. Back then, because everything was so regional, the east and west coasts\u00a0ruled. Tupac and Biggie\u2019s feud usurped\u00a0all the attention while Andre and Big Boi quietly brought the \u201cdirty\u201d south into the rap game. They truly opened up that door and essentially\u00a0created a whole new style of rap body else was privy to.<\/p>\n<p>Just Danny Jay<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bob, As always, you are a Stellar writer. Thanks for being in our corner all these years. One day I hope we can meet! Thanks again, Simon Kirke _______________________________________ It\u2019s a backwards and upside down world when the RnRHOF gets it this right. 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