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| From | "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Re: New R & R HoFers |
| Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:12:13 -0800 |
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Stewart wrote:
> Seriously, I still can't believe anybody here honestly gives a rat's
> ass what some big tacky tourist attraction thinks in the first place.
I agree... I've dealt with the R&R Hall of Fame a little bit, and
(IMO) it's a complete sham, folks...the R&R HoF "Foundation"
in NYC (in the same bldg. as Rolling Stone magazine, by the
way -- and yeah, Jann Wenner is involved heavily with the
Foundation) is totally separate from the Cleveland-based "living
museum"...there were 19 people on on the Nominating Committee
a few years ago (I think there are more now), and basically, they
have a mandate to place as many W-E-A artists in the Hall, for
the purposes of selling records, pure and simple, which is why
you'll see artists like J Geils and Percy Sledge on the list of
possible inductees...and people like Wenner and Seymore Stein
of Sire Records being inducted as well....
Basically, as I see it, the sole purpose of the R&R HoF is for
music industry bigwigs (most of them involved with the Warner-
Elektra-Atlantic record companies or Rolling Stone Magazine)
to get together once a year for a large party wherein they charge
something like $1000 for a seat at a table at the induction
ceremony that only other industry bigwigs can afford and they
watch performances by living legends/whoever's still alive (and
whoever is willing to perform a few songs live) and they get VH1
to pay for the whole thing so they have broadcast rights...The
rest of the year, the Foundation is supposed to disperse the
money they've got to artists in need of financial help, but there
was a recent article that explained that a mere fraction of the
money actually was spent on the artists...the majority of the
money went straight into the Foundation's pockets...we're talkin'
MILLIONS of dollars.
I can hunt around and find the article if anyone wants to read it...
Bryan
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