The Last Time I Will Post About the Hall of Fame

Tis' the season for being bitter about Award Show and Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame snubs. We'll rant to no end asking why Gran Torino didn't even get a mention at the Oscars or why King Crimson, Yes or Genesis did not get their due, but in the end, is it really worth it anymore? Considering this is a music blog, I'm going to focus on the latter and will opt for a stream of consciousness kind of writing style since it's early in the morning and quite frankly I'm too lazy to make things look organized.

Do big bands who made millions in record sales, toured the world, and had die hard fans crawling at their feet need the validation of these so called music-big-wig-know-it-alls? Honestly, do the rich and famous need the rich and famous to tell them that they are now Rock n' Roll royalty? This isn't baseball, there are no stats declaring you worthy of being named the best other than record sales and chart positions which are only statements of how mainstream you were anyway. I find it hard to believe that rock stars sit at home weeping because they weren't inducted, in fact I would find it hard to believe that they would actually be the slightest bit disappointed. A bands music will never go away, it is forever transferred to every new media outlet for everyone to hear. This isn't an athlete who will only be known by future generations by numbers and early morning sessions of NFL Films on ESPN Classic; music lasts forever! How could something as subjective as music be declared acceptable enough to enter the great Halls. Half the bands that get inducted now and days could hardly be labeled Rock n' Roll, and most of them have people searching Wikipedia to find out exactly who the hell they are . So this is my final acknowledgment of this bull shit institution set up by the industry. It's just a group of holier than thou' "rock experts" who can willy-nilly exclude entire sub genres of rock while professing the importance of others. I'm sure Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel are sulking in their mansions every time their respective band gets passed up, especially when they're thinking back on all the albums they sold, all the places they've gone, and all the people who were screaming at the top of their lungs every time their feet touched a stage. No, those memories certainly won't be validated until they get into the Hall of Fame.

Lastly, while Johnny Rotten is typically the last person I would like to quote - he said it best when it comes to the Hall of Fame:

"Next to the Sex Pistols, rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum. Urine in wine. We're not coming. We're not your monkeys. If you voted for us, hope you noted your reasons. Your anonymous as judges but your still music industry people. We're not coming. Your not paying attention. Outside the shit-stream is a real Sex Pistol."