2007 Rock Hall Nominees Announced

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moxham123 wrote:Songsmith,

The good news is that Z Z Top did get inducted in 2004. Here is the link to the complete list of inductees.
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mjb wrote:i thought it was the rock n roll hall of fame. as i sit here listening to the beautiful tones of warren haynes and derek trucks trading slide licks on live at th beacon theatre. somebody please fuckin tell me what the fuck grand master flash has to do with rock n roll. i fucking hate rap and don't like people who listen to it. it fucking pisses me off. if you like rap i don't feel i could possibly have anything in common with you at all. i hate it that much and now you apparently can get inducted into the hall. fuck them. i' don't even get me started on the puerto- rican- latino grammy awards.


i'll side with toona on this
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I understand your sarcasm, but this character has to go already.
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I agree good sir. This Gangster chap has littered this fine page with his putrid syntax. He is not a very good representation of grammatical correctness on the Internet, and I for one feel ashamed to be on the same page as him.
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No way, I say the gangsta stays.
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the term "rock n' roll" was of course coined by the DJ Alan Freed in the 1950's, and at the time pertained to new style of music that was pervading the airwaves....

The term is not strictly defined as this style or that style, rather as a collective term

As it stands, these artists, and the other artists nominated or inducted all fit the mold of "rock n' roll"

Grandmaster Flash was an early and very successful pioneer in rap.....which was an offshoot of rock, blues, and god knows what else...Linkin Park rap, are they not rock n' roll then?

To wonder why artists such as Styx or Robin Trower or Kansas have not been nominated is relatively obvious - they did not make any pioneering difference or huge lasting impact on "rock n' roll"

Rock n' roll is not just the four on the floor/power chord nonsense that we all love and indulge in - it's a broad spectrum of music - and to say that Motown wasn't rock n' roll is ridiculous - look at how many Motown tunes the Stones covered .....that was the rock n' roll that gave us rock n' roll through the Beatles and Stones, who begat Zeppelin and Sabbath, who begat Metallica, Aerosmith, and GNR, who begat Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and AIC, who begat Korn and Linkin Park, who begat Avenged Sevenfold and My Chemical Romance......it's all relative and it will always continue mutating

Do I think Rush and Deep Purple and Priest deserve to be in there - hell yeah - and they will probably get their due as well (probably Rush before the others)......it took the mighty Sab a few tries as well

Do I agree with the nominees - not really - but I can see where they are trying to come from.....but it still seems to me that they are getting some important artists in there each year - this year it's REM, The Stooges, and Van Friggin Halen.....if they at least can do this each year, then all of my favorites will inevitably get their due......
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