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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: F.O.W. & The Miscreants |
| Date | Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:02:08 -0600 |
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I have always thought there were reasons why most Pop/Rock artists got in the
R&R HOF.
1) You or your group were the groundbreakers of a trend/style of rock music.
2) You were "cool" with the late 60's hippie croud and Rolling Stone's rock
critics, in the past or now.
3) You had a LONG string of hit singles/albums for at least 5 years.
3) You wrote/arranged/played the majority of your music or had a ledgendary
producer-writer-label crew do your music.
4) You recorded for Atlantic/Warners/Elektra/Sire at one time (Atlantic's
founder and president Ahmet Ertegun has been called "The Godfather of
the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame") If you sold millions for the WEA mob its a good
chance youre gonna get in.
5) Your music was hated and wasnt cool with critcs in the past - but time has
now shown that your music has been hugely influential, and its now cool to
accept you. (Zeppelin, AC/DC and ZZ Top, I remember a nasty review of thier
"Tejas" album in RS in 1977.).
6) If you were a strictly Top 40 artist that pandered to teenage girls and
never attempted to break out of that mold with a "Pet Sounds" or "Genuine
Imatation Life" - no way.
Just my thoughts,
Billy
At 08:24 PM 3/22/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 3/21/04 11:13:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>wigout6@juno.com writes:
>
>
>> BTW, when are The Monkees going to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
>>
>
>Sadly (and unfairly), the probable answer is "Never." Too much prejudice
>against them for their prefabricated origin; if the RRHoF won't even take
The
>Hollies seriously, you can bet that The Monkees don't stand a chance.
>CC!
>THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO
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>Wednesday), on the web at wxxe.org Syracuse Community Radio
>
Billy G. Spradlin
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