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| From | Michael vg <govango@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: It's About Time |
| Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:33:02 -0800 (PST) |
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Great post Bryan.
See Bonnie Raitt for further proof.
michael vg
--- Bryan <munki100@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > 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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