Re: Is It Me? Am I wrong?
The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame is controlled by Jann Wenner, the guy behind Rolling Stone.
From Wikipedia on him :
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame controversy
Wenner has endured quite a bit of controversy during his career, as it relates to his involvement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans and supporters of several artists, which include Chicago, Deep Purple, Kiss, The Monkees, Electric Light Orchestra,The Miracles , Yes, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Diamond, The B-52s, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Rush,[14] The Guess Who, Bachman–Turner Overdrive and The Moody Blues,[15] have placed a large amount of blame on Wenner for keeping them out of the Hall of Fame. They claim Wenner has lobbied to keep them from consideration and nomination to the Hall based on personal bias and a dislike for their music.
As you can tell he's not a big prog rock fan, but we are not talking about prog rock here.
Wenner and Robbie Robertson of the Band are close friends. So you have Neil Diamond and Dr John getting inducted this time, funny, they both were at The Last Waltz.
I guess if Gord had decided to be part of The Last Waltz and not just watch from backstage perhaps he would have been inducted this year. They could have called it "let's induct everyone who was at The Last Waltz who hasn't been inducted already."
If Robertson does truly have Wenner's ear he should do something about Gord, and the Guess Who while he is at it.
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