Madonna,Beastie Boys,Mellancamp 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nom's (Rush and Kiss Stiffed Again)

Billboard ^ | 9-28-2007

[My Favorite Headache]

September 27, 2007, 6:45 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Madonna, the Beastie Boys, John Mellencamp and Leonard Cohen lead a wildly disparate class of nominees for 2008 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

They join Afrika Bambaataa, Chic, the Ventures, Donna Summer and the Dave Clark Five on the ballot. Five acts will be inducted March 10, 2008, at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

For eligibility, artists had to release their first single no later than 1982. Last year's inductees were R.E.M., Van Halen, Patti Smith, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and the Ronettes

[mrs. a]

Rob Zombie is dissed again.

I have no respect for the Hall of Fame.

[Larry381]

Glad to see the Ronettes got in last year-in my misspent youth I went out with a girl in the early sixties named Veronica. A few months later she along with her sister and cousin formed the Ronettes. She was of course the future Ronnie Spector the lead singer of the group.

[normy]

Well Cindy Lauper should also be inducted then, I love the drum solo in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

[caver]

They could just call it the Liberal Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a joke the groups that have been purposefully overlooked.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Well, I have no doubt that KISS is routinely ignored by the Rock & Roll powers-that-be because Paul Stanley (real name-Stanley Harvey Eisen) and Gene Simmons (real name-Chaim Witz) are successful Jewish businessmen and family men, who've managed to stay away from drugs and keep out of trouble with the law. They also strongly support our troops. That's not kosher in Hollyweird these days, I guess.

[fredhead]

Afrika Bambaataa

WHO????

[absolootezer0]

neil peart is hardly what i’d call a master.

[fredhead]

Grand Funk Railroad

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

The Dave Clark Five and the Ventures aren’t already in? What a travesty the RORHOF is!

[UlmoLordOfWaters]

No Rush? Are they crazy?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Dick Dale isn't in the RORHOF?!?!?! Dick freakin' Dale, the godfather of surf music?!?!?!

Holy Toledo, I've got to quit reading this thread before I have a stroke.

[L98Fiero]

“Big Star”

Awesome.

[My Favorite Headache]

DC5 should have been in years and years ago.

[My Favorite Headache]

Oh...we must have a jazz snob visiting the board today ;)

Peart is easily the greatest “rock” drummer ever to play the drums. Period.

Greatest drummer ever? No. That belongs to Buddy Rich.

Greatest drummer today? No. There are entirely too many players blowing up in front of our eyes every day on YouTube and Dennis Chambers is still alive and well...imo he is probably the best we have behind the kit..but that is just my opinion.

But when it comes to Peart? He is the most influential drummer to ever live.

[MikeD]

They actually sing YYZ? That’s pretty impressive.

I wish Squeeze would get in, but that’s just wishful thinking...

[Thrownatbirth]

I would be glad all over.

[weegee]

It looks more like the RIAA-Grammy Hall Of Fame.

I blame Rolling Stoned which hasn’t known crap about music in forever and their fearless leader who sits on the Hall’s board.

[weegee]

Was Rob even active musically in 1982?

Foetus did more to industrialize rock than anyone else and although he briefly surfaced on Sony in the 1990s, will never get acknowledged anywhere in the footnotes of rock. But expect to see later hacks like NIN and Mary Manson get in.

[Mr. Blonde]

Peart is easily the greatest “rock” drummer ever to play the drums. Period.

Rush has always kind of annoyed me so I'm not going to pass judgement on his skills as a whole, but on the word easily.

I would think John Bonham and Keith Moon both put up enough of a fight that he isn't easily the best drummer. And for me they were both in infinitely more listenable bands.

[weegee]

There is a small network of people within the Hall that do know what rock and roll is.

My brother has said that the exhibits at the Hall themselves have been good at times (featuring older acts that haven’t been “inducted”).

Also they underwrite a festival based in New Orleans that celebrates the unsung heroes of rock and roll and gets them on stage one more time (example lineup: Plas Johnson, Link Wray, Scotty Moore with DJ Fontana, Alex Chilton providing backup, Dale Hawkins with James Burton... Too much to recall at this time.

I’ve been to the Experience Music Pavillion in Seattle but not the RRHOF. There were some decent items and a lot of crap.

And Hard Rock may have a lot of memorabilia but they don’t preserve it, many artifacts have faded from poor protection (they didn’t use UV filtered glass).