Apparently, to be in with a shout of getting "entered" into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame you have to have been going 25 years; although nobody from 1980 has been put forward this time round. The shortlist for induction this year features:
Black Sabbath (eighth time of trying);
Lynyd Skynyrd (7th)
Sex Pistols (5th)
The Stooges (5th)
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five (2nd)
J Geils Band (2nd)
John Mellancamp (2nd)
Patti Smith (2nd)
Chic (2nd)
Joe Tex (2nd)
And first time tryers:
Miles Davis
Cat Stevens
Blondie
the Paul Butterfield band (we don't have a clue)
The Dave Clark Five
The Sir Douglas Quintet.
(Okay, we sort of have a clue - didn't they work with Dylan or something?)
A panel of 70 "experts" in the music industry (although it includes label executives, which seems ill-advised) drew up this shortlist; 700 of them will vote; there could be up to seven inductees. The constant reappearance of the number seven probably points to something masonic or lizard-conspiratorial there (Verily, the seven shall come from the seven times ten demanding of the seven times ten times ten) which might mean that Blondie are better off keeping away from the whole deal.
The Wikipedia entry for Paul Butterfield gives a pretty good overview. East-West is better than the entry makes it sound, too.
ReplyDeletePaul Butterfield is more important than the vast majority of the people listed there!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he's important, but the Hall of Fame seems set up to measure fame rather than importance...
ReplyDeleteVote for deserving but overlooked artists into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at:
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or you can also go to:
http://www.rateitall.com/t-2529-deserving-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.aspx
Only artists whose first realease was in '82 or before are eligible.
The top 20 vote-getters at this point:
1. Rush
2. Van Halen
3. Chicago
4. Yes
5. Deep Purple
6. Moody Blues
7. R.E.M.
8. Doobie Brothers
9. Peter Gabriel (solo)
10. Carole King
11. Dire Straits
12. Genesis
13. Alice Cooper
14. Madonna
15. Metallica
16. The Cars
17. John Mellencamp
18. Jethro Tull
19. Pete Townshend (solo)
20. Styx
You don't have a clue about who Paul Butterfield is? Quit writing about music, dickweed.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous... and are all Mr. Butterfield's as charming as you?
ReplyDeleteOdd as it may seem, I don't know every single artist to have recorded a record in history, and I don't think - with thousands and thousands of bands, singers and artists in countless genres - if you restricted music writing to people who knew every single one, there'd be very much music criticism at all.
Especially since we're talking about someone working in a field I care little for, who did most of his work before I was born, who never had a hit in the country I live in. I'd imagine, though, your working knowledge of the Charlottes and The Siddeleys is probably as lacking as mine is of Butterfield. I don't think that in any way invalidates your opinion on the music you do know about, though.
Perhaps I should have pretended I'd heard of him. That's what a real music journalist would have done, presumably.