Rock&Roll Hall of Fame

[Andy Gilham]

I haven't been to Cleveland, and to be honest I've no particular plans to
do so, but I have been to the R&RHoF web site :)

Point one about the HoF, surely, is it's basically a marketing exercise;
we've got something in London called "Rock Circus", which is basically a
tourist thing, and the only reason you'd go if you actually live here is to
try and pick up Belgian teenagers (a valid enough reason, I suppose).
 Anyway!  It's got dummies outside made up look like such disparate figures
as Tina Turner, Sid Vicious etc - Hey, kids!  It's all rock and roll!  It's
all part of that marvellous tapestry of popular music!  I like it like it
yes I do!

Anyway back to the HoF - my main observation about the "inductees" is
they're extremely conservative.  Which I suppose is fair enough if you want
to build up credibility, but results in being very dull.  And they take a
very wide definition of "rock and roll", which includes all the Tamla
Motown stable.  I think this may be fair enough, not just an exercise in
PC, because it's be impossible to draw a line anyway.

"Our kind of music" is represented by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and the
Velvet Underground.  Which out of a hundred or so inductees is fair enough
I thought.  Even though personally I was never really into Floyd or Zep.

But it's all so BORING!

-Andy

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