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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: New R & R HoFers |
| Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:13:40 -0600 |
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:08:11 -0500
From: <nonstoppop@cox.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: New R & R HoFers
Message-ID: <20041213230811.VNRZ2250.lakermmtao03.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net>
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is on its way to being that which casual
music fans will treat as the definitive word on the history of rock and
roll.
Again, I'll ask the same question that I asked Mike Bennett earlier in this
thread: Is it really? This smacks of an assertion for which there is no
proof whatsoever. Or at best I'll wager that you have extremely limited
anecdotal evidence that casual music fans actually give a now-legendary
hindquarters of *Rattus norvegicus* what the people behind the R&RHoF think
about anything.
Just as an interesting experiment, I'd like to see someone stand on a street
corner and poll passersby (who would, presumably, mostly consist of casual
music fans) as to their views about the R&RHoF. I'd also like to find out
how many of them could identify who is in the Hall and who isn't. While my
assertion is just as unproveable as yours in lieu of someone actually
conducting this poll, I'd wager good money that the vast majority of casual
music fans polled would be completely indifferent to the R&RHoF, and
generally ignorant of who had been inducted and who hadn't (outside of
obvious household-name megastars such as Elvis, the Beatles, and the
Stones).
Gregory Sager
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