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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Regardless of other deserving candidates, REM absolutely deserves it.
Patty was long overdue... as were, the Ronnettes.
I can't even speak the name of that, most famous of all 80's hair bands... but I'll acquiesce to Miles on the induction of their sole talent and lead guitarist. Blech. |
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Location: North Carolina | All of these halls of fame are just so much horseshit. I don't care who they put in them for all the real value any of it has. |
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Location: NJ | well I like grandmaster flash. I remember going to clubs and hearing that stuff. I would add gil scot heron to the list also but few after that.
as for the monkees yes
as for cleveland..... it was never held there afaik.
in fact, If I am not mistaken they did not even do a ceremony last year.
I loved how ronnie spector did her best not to mention phil and then paul schaeffer reads a note from him which i presumed was from jail LOL.
patti smith was great, I know her guitar player lenny kaye and e mailed him after the ceremony he was on cloud nine. |
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Location: ranson,wva | didnt ronnie spector sing with eddie money on a few songs?? i think the one was take me home tonight?? jason |
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Location: south east Michigan | I loved how ronnie spector did her best not to mention phil and then paul schaeffer reads a note from him.
And the crowd responded with amost dead silence. I felt embarrased for Schaeffer. |
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Location: Parrish, FL | I felt embarrased for Schaeffer I usually am. He never has impressed me. Perhaps if he didn't try so hard he wouldn't be so annoying. |
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Location: Australia | Originally posted by cwk2:
Rap is not music. The C is silent.
When they are letting this sh!t in then it's time to get out. It ain't rock and roll anymore.
click. Couldn't agree more.
....but then again I now hate all these stupid meaningless awards/hall of fame shows including the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and this thing
The only reason for them is promotion to flog more tickets, albums, DVD's etc etc |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by BluesSailor:
I felt embarrased for Schaeffer I usually am. He never has impressed me. Perhaps if he didn't try so hard he wouldn't be so annoying. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Gee Al, is that just Paul Schaeffer's TV persona? Or is he a nerd in real life? [and I don't mean "nerd" in the good way] |
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Location: NJ | I met him in a club in Manhattan once, and he was a total dick . . .
(he IS a damn good keyboard player, tho . . .) |
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Location: ms | One of the horn players Tom "BONES" Malone is from my hometown. I`m friends with his cousin Bruce Byrd also a great horn player. I met Tom when i was very young and did not see him again until about he time the Blues Brothers came out he seemed like a nice guy. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by alpep:
The man is an amazing talent with an encyclopedic knowledge of songs but annoying as anything. Just your average Canadian Guy. It's the education system....
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by alpep:
the man is an amazing talent with an encyclopedic knowledge of soms but annoying as anything. DING! DING! DING!
and we have a winner! |
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Location: Up North | Paul Schaeffer is probably the most famous native son from Thunder Bay, except for the hockey playing Staal brothers, Eric, Marc, Jared and Jordan.
I think the big city lights burnt any small town humility out of him years ago. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I, too, am not much for the words and messages being sold in rap music these days, but the idea of rhythmic stuccato phrasing has been around for 130 years. Just listen to any Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. About 15 years ago, I wrote a rap song that served as a rewrite of the "Night Before Christmas" story. It was published locally and then performed 17 times by, among others, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the Colorado Children's Chorale during the Christmas Pops concert series here in Denver. The positive feedback was overwhelming. Rap does not have to be crude and intimidating. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Country Rap pre-dates them all.
Tennese Ernie Ford
Big Bad John
Convoy (It was the dark of the moon on the 6th of June) |
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Location: big island | Uneasy Rider (Charlie Daniels) "i was takin' a trip out to LA, toolin' along in my chevrolet, i was tokin' on a number and diggin' on the radio..."
Boy Named Sue
and just about anything by Red Sovine
to name a few more |
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Location: Tennessee | Year Of The Guru - Eric Burdon & The Animals. What they did in 1968 might well be the blueprint for the rap music industry. |
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Location: closely held secret | "Spill the wine"?
No, wait, that was with War. ;) |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Subterranean Homesick Blues, by Dylan is often credited as the first popular rap song. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I've always considered rap as a music genre for anyone without musical talent and no singing voice.
I don't mind it, as long as I don't have to hear it! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | My only comment on rap is that I've never thought of Rap as a musical form. In music there is Rock, Country, Soul, Blues etc etc etc.. Rap is Rap adn there are genre's of it also. Much like Dance is Dance and may involve music, Rap is Rap and may involve music. It's a form of expression. I think the industry clouds this too, but it is what it is. Comparing Rap as a whole to music is like comparing a banana and a pencil. Either may involve the color yellow, but that's about it, two totally different things.
Like I mentioned earlier, maybe they (the hall of fame) is really finally feeling the heat and maybe going to turn into something more historic. A visit to the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville is worthwhile. It's what the Rock'n Roll hall of fame "should" have been. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Grif:
Paul Schaeffer is probably the most famous native son from Thunder Bay, except for the hockey playing Staal brothers, Eric, Marc, Jared and Jordan.
I think the big city lights burnt any small town humility out of him years ago. I thought is was the "Hanson Brothers"
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | another "Rappish" tune... "Memo From Turner" - The Stones |
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OT Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
