Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's assesment of Yes

Slartibartfast wrote: I care about as much as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as I have the desire to screw a chimpanzee or hang out at the DMV...

OK... I hope that means you don't care about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at all, otherwise I would be really worried about the integrity of poor chimpanzees.

Yeah, I was gonna ask when it would be brought up that Deep Purple have been inducted there too.

For what it's worth, Jim Derogatis' book on rock music in the 1990s - titled Milk It after the Nirvana song - contains a hilarious essay sarcastically dropkicking the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame which was written around 1997 or so. Though at this point making fun of the RNRHoF must be like shooting fish in a barrel!

Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame, Hall of Lame! Whatever! --Higher forms of music like Prog rock deserves something much better; we don't need TRRHOF! We have the millions plus world-wide  fans, record sales, and bands that can easily  fill up Wembly Stadiums, Palais des Sport, and other ginormous venues!

Whoever the electors are need to look a little closer and see that Prog has the greatest musicians & artists in the world to exclude so many deserving  that are still around and  still going strong -
 It was nice that Genesis & Peter Gabriel have already been inducted - Its a start, so maybe there still is hope...
 

Meltdowner wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: The RRHoF can go f*ck themselves. This.

Edited by Hercules - December 20 2015 at 17:37

The Dark Elf wrote: emigre80 wrote: Maybe we should start a prog hall of fame.  we can run it out of my basement....it's a very large basement.   That might work. Most of the fan base is used to living in the basement.

Uh...13 hours and no one has an answer.....and here I thought PA members knew everything.

Looked it up on Wiki...that bastion of truth and info.........

There is also controversy in the lack of transparency in the selection process. Janet Morrissey of The New York Times wrote, "With fame and money at stake, it's no surprise that a lot of backstage lobbying goes on. Why any particular act is chosen in any particular year is a mystery to performers as well as outsiders – and committee members say they want to keep it that way." Jon Landau, the chairman of the nominating committee, says they prefer it that way. "We've done a good job of keeping the proceedings nontransparent. It all dies in the room."^[32]

According to Fox News, petitions with tens of thousands of signatures were also being ignored, and some groups that were signed with certain labels or companies or were affiliated with various committee members have even been put up for nomination with no discussion at all.^[31] The committee has also been accused of largely ignoring certain genres.^[33] According to author Brett Milano, "entire genres get passed over, particularly progressive rock, '60s Top 40, New Orleans funk and a whole lot of black music."^[34]

Another criticism is that too many artists are inducted. In fifteen years, 97 different artists were inducted.^[35] A minimum of 50% of the vote is needed to be inducted; although, the final percentages are not announced and a certain number of inductees (five in 2011) is set before the ballots are shipped.^[35] The committee usually nominates a small number of artists (12 in 2010) from an increasing number of different genres. Several voters, including Joel Selvin, himself a former member of the nominating committee, did not submit their ballots in 2007 because they did not feel that any of the candidates were truly worthy.^[36]

Members of the British punk rock band Sex Pistols, inducted in 2006, refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum "a piss stain" and "urine in wine".^[37]

In BBC Radio 6 Music's Annual John Peel Lecture in 2013, the singer Charlotte Church accused the museum of gender bias, stating, "Out of 295 acts and artists in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, 259 are entirely male, meaning that Tina Weymouth's part in Talking Heads makes them one of the 36 female acts."^[38][39] In fact, the actual percentage of woman inductees is a scant 8.5%.^[40] Combining all the categories, there have been 719 inductees, out of which only 61 have been women, none of which has been inducted more than once or awarded the Lifetime Achievement"."

I guess that answers my question......

dr wu23 wrote: ... Members of the British punk rock band Sex Pistols, inducted in 2006, refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum "a piss stain" and "urine in wine".[37] ...

micky wrote: emigre80 wrote: I know nothing.  Absolutely bugger all. same here!   I only know what I do not know.

emigre80 wrote: micky wrote: emigre80 wrote: I know nothing.  Absolutely bugger all. same here!   I only know what I do not know.   except about WWI.  I do have one very limited area of expertise. Other than that and the complete lyrics to Tales from Topographic Oceans, my mind is one great big blank space.

that is the great thing of the life of a scholar.. you never rest on what you know.. it is all about what you do NOT know.

I have spent an entire adult life learning about the eastern front of ww2 and still today I am learning new things.  My project now (for a game design) is placing the exact 22 June location of ever single Soviet unit west of the Urals to help make the game design correct and accurate

Also one of the reasons I love my job (except on days when I hate it). You can do work like mine for years (now 20 for me) and still you learn new things nearly every day. A strong...  STRONG appeal to someone like me that feels the need to be challenged and have challenges.