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KISS And The Hall Of Fame From: New York Daily News In the Wednesday, October 12th New York Daily News newspaper, on page 39, there is an article on KISS, and their not being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The story is in the Wednesday: NOW section of the paper, and the headline reads: Rocking the Vote/Daily News readers turn up the volume over Hall of Fame nominations/Battle of the bands' fans. This is what a reader posted: "Here's the problem with the Hall: that Black Sabbath wouldn't be considered an 'automatic' and KISS has never even been nominated. When two bands that are seminal and enduring - like it or not, critics - are not recognized, the Hall's voters are clearly out to fulfill some misguided notion of artistic purity rather than recognize impact, influence and achievement. No knock on the Pretenders, a recent inductee, but has their impact and influence been even a fraction of that of those two 'meathead' metal bands?" submitted by PPost. With this article there is a small, but cool black and white photo of Gene and Paul, live on stage taken during one of these past few tours. The writer of the story, David Hinckley, added this: "As usual, other folks had opinions, too, may of which seem to support a Black Sabbath candidacy- or a KISS revolution." Rocking the vote Daily News readers turn up the volume over Hall of Fame nominations Two weeks ago, I remarked on the 16 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2006. They are, in alphabetical order: Black Sabbath, Blondie, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, the Dave Clark Five, Miles Davis, the J. Geils Band, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Mellencamp, the Sex Pistols, the Sir Douglas Quintet, the Patti Smith Group, Cat Stevens, the Stooges and Joe Tex. As usual, other folks had opinions, too, many of which seem to support a Black Sabbath candidacy — or a KISS revolution. The Hall has been a joke ever since the ludicrous selection of the Velvet Underground, especially considering Bob Seger waited 10 years, Lynyrd Skynyrd still isn't in, and Nick Lowe has never even been nominated." -Joseph Hansel For you to intimate that Black Sabbath is not 'quality' Hall material is ridiculous. For those who insist the Hall is legitimate, I offer two words: Percy Sledge. One hit song, however great, but absolutely not rock 'n' roll. No matter how you choose to spin it, Black Sabbath were the founding fathers of a genre and deserve a little more respect than you gave them, sir." - Anthony Baglivi "I'm a huge fan of Doug Sahm and the Quintet, but are they really Hall of Famers? If they are, then can we please get NRBQ in there?… But what really perplexes me is the Miles thing. Miles was a genius. I'm awed by him. But rock 'n' roll? They are nominating jazz instrumentalists while the Ventures and Link Wray, rock instrumentalists who influenced everybody, have yet to be nominated? I don't get it." - Jeff Tamarkin "The Moody Blues' first seven albums were all highly anticipated and received much WNEW airtime. Besides the early 'Go Now' and the classics 'Nights in White Satin' and 'Question,' they produced some very moving songs and were pioneers in the concept album. Have they missed their window of opportunity?" - Ken Sidlowski "Here's the problem with the Hall: that Black Sabbath wouldn't be considered an 'automatic' and KISS (above) has never even been nominated. When two bands that are seminal and enduring — like it or not, critics — are not recognized, the Hall's voters are clearly out to fulfill some misguided notion of artistic purity rather than recognize impact, influence and achievement. No knock on the Pretenders, a recent inductee, but has their impact and influence been even a fraction of that of those two 'meathead' metal bands?" - PPOst "I'm part of a Cars E-mail list, and we always wonder why the Cars never even get nominated. I believe they sold more albums than most, if not all, of the new wave bands that have been." - Joe Ewansky |
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