sacha
3/15/2010 11:37:00 PM
On Mar 15, 5:18 pm, 9fingers <gd9fing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 5:00 pm, "DGDevin" <dgde...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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> > "booie" <ba_ba_b0...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> >news:d7e07bd8-c544-4095-b07b-7c7e6fdac8bb@q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
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> > > Top 40 rejects: Why are none of these people will be in the Rock and
> > > Roll Hall of Fame?
> > > Jim Farber
>
> > The RARHOF is an excuse for the music industry to get together and
> > congratulate itself at a party every year, they even have awards for
> > industry executives who have never played a note. Artists who clearly
> > should in such a hall are not there, and artists who shouldn't be, are. I
> > think it was at the first RARHOF ceremony where Chuck Berry forgot the words
> > to the song he was singing, that pretty much summed up the value of that
> > institution for me.
>
> I think the Faces should be in - great band.
>
> MC5 - forget it, they stunk. All hype, no chops.
Faces, MC5, Procul, Steppenwolf deserve it. And a world where
Kraftwerk is in and Dire Straits isn't is too bizarro for me.