OFF: This year's RnRHoF inductees

[Steven Skane]

The Ramones were pre punk and a big influence on bands like the Sex Pistols.
I suppose maybe they scrape in.

Gene Pitney is not rock and roll and neither is Isaac Hayes although I have
a vague memory of Hayes being in some of those bands  at the dawn of rock
and roll like Ike Turner.

Brenda Lees is no rock and roller either.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: OFF: This year's RnRHoF inductees


> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, K Henderson wrote:
>
> > Well...
> >
> > The Ramones
> > Talking Heads
> > Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
> > Isaac Hayes
> > Brenda Lee
> > Gene Pitney
> >
> > Another year, another bunch of puzzling names.  Not that I can't see
that
> > one or two of these artists were 'important' or anything (I even *own*
> > albums by Talking Heads, which certainly makes *them* important) :)
> >
> > Who the *hell* is Gene Pitney?  Brenda Lee I don't know from Eve either.
> > And Isaac Hayes - the guy who did Shaft?  Is there something else about
> > Isaac Hayes that I just don't know about?  Granted, I don't know
*anything*
> > about him *except* that.
>
>         I think the important thing there is that Isaac hayes voices Chef
> in South Park, which may have an awful lot to do with any renewed
> recogition of his work that may be going on (not that I've seen any hype
> beyond a best of advert that could have been anybody's). By such tricky
> means can rock'n'roll fame be achieved... Yours,
>                                                  Jon
>
> --
> "I recognise that I have transgressed many of the precepts of the divine
> law, and that I am subjected by various vices and iniquities, disobedient
> to the words of the divine mystery brought unto me and a worshipper of the
> delights of this military age." Marquis Borrell of Barcelona, 955 A.D.
>
>              (Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College London)
>