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| From | "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Re: It's About Time |
| Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:22:19 -0800 |
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> I don't see anything wrong with honoring the artists who created
> that music.
No one does, and that's why every year music fans are so bummed
out by the announcements of who made it in, whose name was on
the ballot to begin with, etc. There's no way to please everyone...and
the only people who are pleasing themselves are the nominating
committee members who continually vote to nominate *each other*
for entry...that's right. It's happened over and over again. Not only
that, but take a look at how many artists that are closely associated
with Seymour Stein, Ahmet Ertegun, etc., and then you'll see that
it's really nothing more than a scam to promote their own artists....
Google "Suzan Evans" and find the Fox.news (yeah, I know...)
article about the Hall of Fame and you'll see what I mean. It's
probably best if no one pays any attention to what these suits are
doing...
The R&R Hall of Fame isn't much more than a way to get VH-1
to pony up a lot of money to throw a big lavish party and charge
folks from record labels $25,000 per table to attend (and most of
'em expense it anyway), and some of the people who work for
the "Foundation" end up paying themselves a huge salary to do
what?? Absolutely nothing!
Oh, and by the way, I believe the Museum in Cleveland, and the
Hall of Fame offices on Ave of the Americas in NY (where the
nominating committee meet, and where Suzan Evans' office is
located, in the same bldg. with Rolling Stone magazine and, until
recently, Warner's NY offices) are two separate things...they hold
the lavish dinner and concert at the Waldorf in NY, right? NOT
somewhere in Cleveland, like, say...oh, I don't know.. the Museum.
That's because they're two different places -- and while I think it's
great to have a museum to visit, I don't really think anyone likes
the underlying politics behind the NY office's way of doing things...
It'll be the same thing next year, trust me...
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