Mar 15
As if to rub it in that Rush isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the museum starts a year long presentation of this years’ lame group of inductees today.
Well… you know my thoughts on this. We don’t need their stupid Hall of Fame!
Take heart my Canadian brothers… nobody would take Abba to a desert island… while
makes many people’s lists.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:11 am
I wouild take Moving Pictures, followed probably by Power Windows.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Other than ABBA, I have never heard of any of them.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
159. “Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay” – Danny & the Juniors 3 Mar 1958
You probably haven’t heard of this group either.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Nope. And I have to say, after all these mentions of Rush I went out to find some of their music. I gotta say, I’m not feeling the love.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
It isn’t a matter of liking the tunes, just recognizing success / fame in the industry. Rush has had umpteen platinum albums, get radio play all the time (on Classic rock stations). Hall of Fame should be “fame”
March 15th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Rush is good until Geddy Lee starts to sing. Then it’s nails on a chalk board. But if there’s a defined criteria for “fame” and they meet it, then they should be in. The Susan Lucci of rock and roll.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Whatever. You like them or you don’t. Us RUSH fans don’t give a hoot what anyone else thinks. You don’t get it, fine. I don’t get country music. Enjoy.
Why would any serious artistat this point want their name mentioned in the same breath as this train wreck?
March 16th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Q: What do you get when you play a country music song backwards?
A: Your dog, truck, house and wife back.
March 16th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
….and there’s no rain and nary a train in sight!
March 16th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Hey #8 you forget the gun!
March 17th, 2010 at 12:27 am
And the best friend. (or was that the Dog?)
March 17th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Let’s get official here. In order of priority it’s the same as a redneck’s:
1. Truck
2. Dog
3. Gun
4. Beer
5. Woman
A house has no value, merely being a place to store cold beer with the furniture on the front porch, and a path to the woods out back.
March 18th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Careful, those “rednecks” are your people, the folks whose votes you depend on for your anti-liberal politics.
March 18th, 2010 at 10:44 am
rednecks are to conservatism as welfare dependents are to liberalism.
March 18th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Elvis was a redneck who sold more rock and roll and country records than Tina Turner and Dolly Parton combined. He was the old type, i.e. rural, poor, working class, white southerner, not the Howard Dean bigot type created for elitists to put down plain folks. Jokes about rednecks are a psychological mechanism that constrains the violence against bigots like Dean.
March 20th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Will this thread ever die???
March 20th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
nope. Well, maybe.
March 21st, 2010 at 7:21 am
That’ll be the Day”, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, 1958!
March 21st, 2010 at 6:39 pm
I don’t normally post to blogs but I enjoyed this post so keep up the good work. -cheers-
March 21st, 2010 at 10:08 pm
I have been going back in the inductees list and havent heard of 80% of these groups/people. I thought I was well versed in music…
March 21st, 2010 at 10:10 pm
PS: would you like a CMS that will properly encode the percent sign? I can do that…..
March 22nd, 2010 at 7:11 am
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/01/1948-and-the-birth-of-rock-and-roll-music/
Science and technology items like the electric guitar, 12 inch LPs, 45rpm records and the transistor belong in the hall too. Maybe some are but I’ll skip a visit there as I do Graceland, Dollyworld, and others except Opryland.
March 22nd, 2010 at 7:37 am
And if you’re saddened by a snub to “Rush” think about the one to Trini Lopez, who even designed a rock and roll guitar for Gibson!