Its another year and another group of nominations has come out and there are some great muscians on the list. You feel good for them although there are still bands and muscians that don't make it. Bands that have been around longer then the twenty-five year minimum. Bands that are still together and writing music for over twenty-five years. Muscians that are still creating their art and yet no nod. It is a black spot on the music that I love and the people I admire that they don't get thier rightful due.
In a past post, I have talked about my favorite band Rush. Their first album came out in 1974, Rush, almost 40 years ago and yet they don't even get a nomination. WTF. Some of the nominations this year: Guns N Roses, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Chilli Peppers, Beastie Boys, and Donna Summer. This is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, isn't it? I love Donna Summer to death, my first music I got into was Disco but never did I consider it Rock. Actually most of the nominations I put up I like in many different ways and eventhough I don't neccessarily consider Beastie Boys a rock band. I can appreciate thier style with Rap and Rock in a unique way and see them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who made it out of my little list? Guns and Roses, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Beastie Boys will be inducted. I remember when all of these bands came out. Its hard to think in my old body but young mind that they have been around twenty-five years but obviously they meet those requirements.
I don't know how the committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame picks their nominees an article I read Forbes broke it down but it still seems that it doesn't mean much. They pick people who write music perform it and deserve it in my eyes and then pick a singer that had some hits, ok, maybe a lot of hits. There are so many bands and musicians out there that deserve a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and some that don't. If I wrote an album full of songs in 1986 and it was a little bit interesting and I toured around and people loved that album it seems that I could be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I could have ended my career in 1988 and then come out for a music special and some showcase or fund raisers and my chances are probably better. If I influenced a couple of grunge bands in the 90s with my style of music. I am now an inductee. There is a band this year that did almost that and they are now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Or perhaps it was just that the band gained some famous people a couple of years later. Its all very interesting and frustrating at the same time but overall depressing.
It just seems that again the people who buy the music and visit the museum and spend their money don't have a say. We want to fight our government for not listening to the people but why should they be any different we are constantly told what should and shouldn't happen. We accept it all the time. Now, maybe, the music hall of fame isn't as important as the government economy but it just shows that we just take it year after year and its not changing. People are fickle and they don't always know whats best for the group, but there still has to be a better way.
For me, its just a small battle for one band, which will open up the door for the other deserving nominations and soon inductees. I would like to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland someday. I love music and been playing music for many years. I enjoy many of the bands in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just like the ones that aren't in that Hall of Fame. I can't go there obviously because it wouldn't be fair to those that have been pushed aside. Until the bands that really deserve to be there are in there I can't take the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame seriously.
