The Top 5 SNUBS EVER! | Professor of Rock
| Okay, so this one’s an episode I’ve been needing to do for a long time. And I’ll be upfront with you. It’s a topic that really gets under my skin, so I’ll try to be positive. Today we’re counting down my all-time, Top 5 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame snubs… bands and artists who are well overdue for the so-called honor, but routinely get passed over year after year. There is a long list of rock hall snubs…From Iron Maiden to The Guess Who from Pixies to Motorhead from New York Dolls to the Smiths from Joy Division/New Order to Slayer from Styx to Foreigner to Jethro Tull and Thin Lizzy, Motley Crue, Toto the list goes on and on. We’re also going to try to figure out why the Rock Hall routinely refuses to induct actual rock artists into their ranks. They’re called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but they seem to have a bias against rock and Roll? I’m not going to be pulling any punches here. I just want to give some love to some classic rock icons that I think we all admire and I want to hear yours too... |
I wish McKee was still here so he could chime in on this.
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You're kidding, right? You need to read a little bit about The Replacements.
It should either be renamed the Music Hall of Fame or there should be separate HOF's for other genres of music.
Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Donna Summer. I like them all but they are not rock and roll. When is Beethoven getting in?
You're kidding, right? You need to read a little bit about The Replacements.
That was Keanu Reeves' best movie role
*nods head*
It should either be renamed the Music Hall of Fame or there should be separate HOF's for other genres of music.
Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Donna Summer. I like them all but they are not rock and roll. When is Beethoven getting in?
It's a fair point, but the Beasties were absolutely a rock group, they just happened to use hip hop lyrics on top of punk/hardcore/rock music for much of their catalog.
- he developed a very unique guitar style (the finger picking, the sound, etc.)
- he wrote a few hit songs of his own
- he did this during the advent of the music video on MTV
apparently he's having some health issues at the moment. i would love him to get in while he could enjoy it, but i doubt it happens. bastards.
- he developed a very unique guitar style (the finger picking, the sound, etc.)
- he wrote a few hit songs of his own
- he did this during the advent of the music video on MTV
apparently he's having some health issues at the moment. i would love him to get in while he could enjoy it, but i doubt it happens. bastards.
Those achievements seem to be usually given to Stevie Ray instead.
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You're kidding, right? You need to read a little bit about The Replacements.
That was Keanu Reeves' best movie role
*nods head*
Well played, Semipro...well played...
Beastie boys have actual rock songs where they play actual instruments.
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- he revived interest in and introduced two new generations to classic American blues artists (Bo Diddley, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, etc.)
- he developed a very unique guitar style (the finger picking, the sound, etc.)
- he wrote a few hit songs of his own
- he did this during the advent of the music video on MTV
apparently he's having some health issues at the moment. i would love him to get in while he could enjoy it, but i doubt it happens. bastards.
Those achievements seem to be usually given to Stevie Ray instead.
Steve Ray Vaughan is an all-time great guitarist. And he led some younger folks to discover Jimi Hendrix (my all time favorite). But Thorogood pre-dates Vaughan. Thorogood already had 5 albums out before Stevie Ray hit the seen. And right from the start Thorogood had an agenda of re-introducing the public to the blues greats.
Plus Thorogood is a much better baseball player. (His band, the Delaware Destroyers, was actually named after a baseball team that he was playing on at the time.)
how the hell is Thin Lizzy not in???
you beat me to it.
You might appreciate this, Chris: I grew up on a farm a little north of NYC. Besides milk, we sold a lot of hay, sometimes to the rich and famous (hay quality was really important for wealthy horse people and we had a good reputation, so some people came from a distance to buy from us).
One day (ca. 1983) I was helping to load a large truck and the driver told me the hay was for his boss's horses and his boss was the lead singer of Foreigner, Lou Gramm (had to look up to refresh memory).
I was a young guy at the time and had no filter, so without hesitation I said - "Foreigner! I f*cking hate Foreigner!" (that was years before Dude said that about the eagles).
An older me might've kept that info to myself (then again, maybe not. What can I say, I'm an honest guy and I REALLY hate Foreigner!).
I mean, Tull clearly belongs
Iron Maiden isn't very good??
Interesting perspective...
It will just piss you off.
Once they added Joan Baez, who was basically a folk cover singer/activist they lost any shred of even pretending it's about music.
certainly not rock n roll, but calling it the "rock n roll hall of fame" has been a misnomer for a while, probably since inception.
This from a former Top 40 disc jockey and long-time fan of REAL rock and roll.
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you beat me to it.
You might appreciate this, Chris: I grew up on a farm a little north of NYC. Besides milk, we sold a lot of hay, sometimes to the rich and famous (hay quality was really important for wealthy horse people and we had a good reputation, so some people came from a distance to buy from us).
One day (ca. 1983) I was helping to load a large truck and the driver told me the hay was for his boss's horses and his boss was the lead singer of Foreigner, Lou Gramm (had to look up to refresh memory).
I was a young guy at the time and had no filter, so without hesitation I said - "Foreigner! I f*cking hate Foreigner!" (that was years before Dude said that about the eagles).
An older me might've kept that info to myself (then again, maybe not. What can I say, I'm an honest guy and I REALLY hate Foreigner!).
I endorse this message...
I'd never been into hip hop music so I didn't know much about the group when I met them.
Bite your tongue. Anyway, the Hall isn't legitimate until the guys who did that song that started like this are in...
On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
etc.. I think it had a horse in it or something
Wow, really? We went a year ago and I loved it. Lots of great exhibits, I thought...
Awful snub - It must be a "steroid" thing.
If they were an ACTUAL HOF, ought to have a bias towards actual pioneering artists with roots in the 60s who basically were working from scratch, hence:
Steve Marriott - he was THE MAN…ask Robt. Plant, Paul Rodgers, or any other blues tenor
Ed “Cass” Cassidy, of Spirit , plankboard Cali founding father
Keith Emerson - KMA haters, he invented a genre…he burned a US flag, doesn’t that count for something with the selectors?
Yes, they do.
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all of those bands besides the New York Dolls weren't very good or important
Iron Maiden isn't very good??
Interesting perspective...
Just saw them at packed UBS Arena after being around over 40 years. Nobody sat the entire show and I was up in the mid sections. Guys still got it.
If they were an ACTUAL HOF, ought to have a bias towards actual pioneering artists with roots in the 60s who basically were working from scratch, hence:
Steve Marriott - he was THE MAN…ask Robt. Plant, Paul Rodgers, or any other blues tenor
Ed “Cass” Cassidy, of Spirit , plankboard Cali founding father
Keith Emerson - KMA haters, he invented a genre…he burned a US flag, doesn’t that count for something with the selectors?
Steve Marriott I believe is in the Hall with the small faces.
Maiden should have their own wing in the HOF.
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as they HATE prog, ESPECIALLY keyboards… if Deep Purple didn’t have Jon Lord they’d probably have gotten in decades sooner.
If they were an ACTUAL HOF, ought to have a bias towards actual pioneering artists with roots in the 60s who basically were working from scratch, hence:
Steve Marriott - he was THE MAN…ask Robt. Plant, Paul Rodgers, or any other blues tenor
Ed “Cass” Cassidy, of Spirit , plankboard Cali founding father
Keith Emerson - KMA haters, he invented a genre…he burned a US flag, doesn’t that count for something with the selectors?
Steve Marriott I believe is in the Hall with the small faces.
glad to hear this, thx