Monday, January 08, 2007
Hall of Shame
The Inductees for the 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced today. The list includes Van Halen, R.E.M. and Patti Smith. Without taking too much away from any of the artists listed this just goes to show how irrelavant the Hall of Fame is. Any insitutiuon that would continually overlook deserving groups like The Moody Blues and Kiss in favor of less influential artists isn't worth the attention that it gets.
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Not only irrelevant, but also ridiculously inconsistent. Van Halen and KISS were both important and influential acts performing hard rock in roughly the same time period. Yet KISS, who preceded VH by several years gets in on their first shot? While we're at it, is Cheap Trick in there yet? Laughable.
Maybe Kiss is losing points for that movie they did. While I acknowledge Kiss was tremendously popular and influential, you cannot deny that Eddie Van Halen has influenced an entire generation of guitar players.
BYW, unless Deep Purple is in the hall (and they may be, because I don't know who is on and who is not) Kiss has no complaint.
Oh, I'm in no way taking anything away from Eddie's influence. VH definitely deserves to be in. But the argument could be made that Ace Frehley influenced just as many musicians. Eddie gets all the glory, and is obviously technically more proficient, but how many kids do you suppose dressed up as him for Halloween? That's not to say that Halloween costumes should constitute eligibility into the Hall, I'm just illustrating the fact that KISS was a HUGE influence on tons of people. Future guitar players may have STUDIED Eddie while they were learning, but Ace Frehley's smoking (literally) guitar got them to pick up the instrument in the first place.
And of course Deep Purple should be in also. If they're not, it's because they (and KISS and Cheap Trick and many others) haven't licked Jann Wenner's asshole clean yet.
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