KISS, DEEP PURPLE AND NIRVANA ARE AMONG SOME OF THE NOMINEES UP FOR INDUCTION INTO THE ROCK N’ ROLL HALL OF FAME
Andy Greene of Rolling Stone reports:
The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014 are in, and the list includes Nirvana, KISS, the Replacements and Hall and Oates. The rest of this year’s hopefuls include the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, LL Cool J, N.W.A, Link Wray, the Meters, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Yes and the Zombies. The top vote-getters will be inducted in April at a ceremony in New York City.
For the second consecutive year, the public gets to vote alongside the artists, historians and music industry insiders of the Rock Hall voting body. From now until December 10th, fans can vote on RollingStone.com for the nominees they’d like to see inducted. The top five acts will comprise a “fan’s ballot” that will count as one of the more than 600 ballots that determine the Class of 2014.
In order to be eligible for this year’s ballot, artists or bands need to have released their first single or album in 1988 or earlier. Many of the nominees have appeared on previous ballots, but this is the first appearance for Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, the Replacements, Linda Ronstadt, Link Wray, Cat Stevens, Yes and the Zombies. (Gabriel was inducted as a member of Genesis in 2009.)
Nirvana is the only act this year to land on the ballot in its first year of eligibility. Their cover of Love Buzz by Shocking Blue was their first single, hitting stores in late 1988.
If Yes are inducted, it might lead to their first performance with original singer Jon Anderson since 2004. “I don’t have any anger about our exclusion,” Yes bassist Chris Squire told Rolling Stone in 2011. “But it would be a magnificent thing if they would include every member of Yes – I think there’s about 19 or 20 of us.”
source: rollingstone.com
KISS ain’t never getting in. And quite frankly, maybe the biggest honor is NOT to be in the RHOF? I don’t think that KISS really cares about it, they certainly don’t need to be in there, nor does Deep Purple, both bands have made their marks in Rock history.
Personally, I think that RHOF is a load of bs anyway.
Totally agree Jimi – I wouldn’t want to be in the the corporate HOF if I were them. Never been a huge Axl fan, but I loved the fact he didn’t show last year – that attitude is pure rock n roll. Going to a dinner that you have to pay for in order to get a plaque from a guy in a suit and tie saying your ‘rock n roll enough’ for their little club – that is the most un-rock n roll thing I could ever think of. Who gives a shit who’s in this fucking hall of fame? Let the CD’s/Cassettes/LP’s on your shelf decide who’s in a hall of fame – not some 60 year old losers in suits.
I can’t stand Axl/GNR (any era) but your spot on, what Axl did was Rock’N’Roll. If I were KISS or anyone of those nominated – I wouldn’t care about the RHOF at all, hell, I’d decline to be in there…
Never trust anyone in a suit and tie – unless your attending a funeral 🙂
RUSH shouldn’t have shown up either. I don’t get why they came.
Imagine Eddie going to Thayer in front of Gene: Ya look great out of Ace make-up bro. All ex Kiss need to do the Chillah convention in Jersey.
I hope KISS turns it down and writes a letter telling them off.
I like the idea of Eddie or somebody having a Hard Rock/Rock/Metal Hall Of Fame to counter the elitist old hippie fags that vote on the RRHOF commitee..what a joke they would even nominate NWA..RAP is not ROCK!
Here is just some of the iconic groups not in the Rock An Roll Hall Of Fame: Boston, Bad Company, Cheap Trick, Journey, The Cars, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Foreigner, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Joan Jett, Joe Wash, Sammy Hagar just a few of the many ligit rock groups not in but rap is?
Lot’s of responses already to the “why the hate on rap/pop etc.?” but I’ll just reiterate – it’s no hate or disrespect to them at all. It’s that the “ROCK AND ROLL” hall of fame doesn’t include many of the most important ROCK AND ROLL artists of all time. You don’t see hockey players in the baseball hall of fame right? Could you imagine Mariano Rivera not getting into the baseball hall of fame (or even nominated) because Jaromir Jagr took a spot on the ballot instead? Preposterous – he’s not even a baseball player! I have the same feeling about the RRHOF. George said to him rock music is any form of popular music since 1955 with a few exceptions, well I must respectfully disagree with that. It has certainly evolved over the decades and there is some cross pollinization that can make some artists hard to define, but I’ve never seen anyone adamantly say that Madonna is rock, or Chaka Khan is rock, or NWA or Public Enemy is rock. I listen to a rock radio station and they do not play one song by any of those artists, or countless others that are already enshrined in the RRHOF…. because they are not rock and roll. As it is now and has been for some time (all of its time perhaps), the RRHOF is a misnomer. It should be retitled the Popular Music Hall of Fame. I don’t like KISS, but they should have gone in long ago. It’s unfathomable to me how Deep Purple isn’t in, or that Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Bad Company, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull, Journey, Steppenwolf, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Thin Lizzy, Boston, Scorpions to name just a handful have been eligible for varying numbers of years without even a single nomination – yet Madonna, Public Enemy, Prince and Run DMC get voted in their first year of eligibility. It’s not that the non-rock artists don’t deserve the accolades, they absolutely do, but when we expect something to honor “rock and roll” and see who we regard as actual rock artists being completely ignored in favor of those who we see as distinctly NOT rock and roll it makes the whole thing seem foul. Like several of us have said, it’s not the rock hall anymore (if it ever truly was), and that’s fine but it shouldn’t be called as such anymore.
Jaromir Jagr had the best Metal Mullet in NHL history back in the 90’s. That’s why he s/b in the RRHOF.