Bob Olhsson
November 12th, 2006, 06:20 PM
From Lee Abrams' blog:
http://leeabrams.blogspot.com/
http://www.blogger.com/profile/22661583
"A more controversial issue is the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame nominees. The RRHOF is one of those things that symbolizes everything wrong with Rock n Roll 2006. A great idea, but it should be the Rock CRITICS Hall of Fame. It's SO bloody biased. There are the obvious entries, then there are those who are in that are Critics friends..but not much else. Then of course there are those who'll probably never make it in--especially the prog rock types like Yes, Rush and The Moody Blues. Critics never liked those bands anyways. But a marginally popular Punk band that could sell out CBGB for five minutes--well of course they're in. ..or some "icon" that was a New York Underground thing but maybe had one or two lasting songs--but was/is a critics darling...they're in. The bias for and against some genres makes the thing a joke. And Cleveland? I can see where Cleveland has merit because of Alan Freed and the whole "Rock n Roll town" thing it had going in the 70's, but after several meetings with the RRHOF it was pretty obvious that it's more about commerce---tourism than anything else, so the idea of having it there is flawed from the beginning."
http://leeabrams.blogspot.com/
http://www.blogger.com/profile/22661583
"A more controversial issue is the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame nominees. The RRHOF is one of those things that symbolizes everything wrong with Rock n Roll 2006. A great idea, but it should be the Rock CRITICS Hall of Fame. It's SO bloody biased. There are the obvious entries, then there are those who are in that are Critics friends..but not much else. Then of course there are those who'll probably never make it in--especially the prog rock types like Yes, Rush and The Moody Blues. Critics never liked those bands anyways. But a marginally popular Punk band that could sell out CBGB for five minutes--well of course they're in. ..or some "icon" that was a New York Underground thing but maybe had one or two lasting songs--but was/is a critics darling...they're in. The bias for and against some genres makes the thing a joke. And Cleveland? I can see where Cleveland has merit because of Alan Freed and the whole "Rock n Roll town" thing it had going in the 70's, but after several meetings with the RRHOF it was pretty obvious that it's more about commerce---tourism than anything else, so the idea of having it there is flawed from the beginning."