About time.
Proud to call some of the original members friends.
Looking forward to seeing them play at the ceremony.
Love that Heart got in.
Rush did too!
'Bout time!
Nice !!
Too bad it's still in Cleveland.
Rush and Heart are two of the best ever. The hall of fame is getting closer to having credibility.
gnaw on it
And Public Enemy, dammit !!
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"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
Yes, but how the hell did Deep Purple not get in? What a crying shame but congrats to Heart and Rush.
RIDE TO LIVE, LIVE TO RIDE
LET `EM ROLL ONE MORE TIME
Congrats to Public Enemy too, IMO. They rock, don't they ?
Still waiting for Thin Lizzy & Purple.
Roger Fisher might be the most underrated guitarist of the 70's.
The chemistry on those early albums was incredible.
I think the song Bebe LeStrange could have benefitted from a Fisher lead bread at the end.
Purple 100% yes.
Thin Lizzy though? I love them, you love them....but I just think too many people don't know who they were or have heard of them. They might recognize & even like a couple of the big tunes just from decades of radio play, but they couldn't name the band. And when you tell them the band name they have never heard of them.
A lot like Supertramp that way. You play their greatest hits cd and inevitably the other person listening says "oh shit, I love this song" yet has no idea who Supertramp was.
It may seem blasphemous, but if Phil had not died, I don't think TL would be quite as "legendary" as they are......but then, he would still be here kicking out the jams (or not)...so who knows?
DP needs to get in there. Seriously. "Smoke On The Water" is THE anthem for Hard Rock music.
Sadaist, I agree with you about Lizzy. They never made it big in the U.S.
But on the other hand, Heart didn't make it big in Europe. Neither did Rush, sadly. But unlike Supertramp, you can play a Heart or Rush Greatest Hits album, people over here will go "what is this? never heard that before..."
Strange isn't it?
Here in France, Rush is not played on radio nor TV. Same thing with Heart. The ONLY time I've heard Heart on the radio was when "Alone" came out. What year was this? 87? I was 9. I've never heard Rush on a French radio station. And I don't care, as long as I can hear hear them at home...
Roger Fisher's guitar composition was really cool on those early Heart albums. Innovative in the riffs and licks he used to serve the songs.
I would rather Purple in than Rush but WTF... It's not really important anyway. The Thin Lizzy argument is skewed from an American point of view because although Lizzy wasn't that big here in the States, They were absolutely fucking HUGE in the rest of the WORLD. If these hip hop "bands" deserve to get in, Lizzy most surely does.
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"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
This little guitar fill Roger did in Magic Man involves bending one string up and then hitting the note and letting the note go down, while at the same time pushing down on another string above the nut at the same time so that same note goes up....so you are playing the same note on two strings, but then one goes up and one goes down...sorta like splitting a note in two, lol.
The intro to "Crazy On You" was one of the first riffs of theirs I learned back in summer of 1977.
Congradulations to Heart , RUSH , and Albert King for their RRHOF nominations .
I have major mixed feelings about the RRHOF considering that MANY worthy bands are not in ( UFO , Mahogany Rush , Nazareth , Thin Lizzy , Deep Purple , KISS , Ted Nugent , Robin Trower , Blue Oyster Cult , etc. ) and MANY completely unworthy bands are ( Madonna , GrandMaster Flash , Abba , Patti Smith , etc. )
I could talk about this til I'm blue in the face but , oh well . Not nearly enough hours in the day .
Any and all Rap and Hip-Hop acts should be automatically deleted because of the actual ZERO musical talent factor alone . A true slap in the face to real rock bands and actual musicians everywhere .
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Rush fucking earned it.
Should have been first ballot.
Best prog. rock band ever in my book.
Still waiting for a relevant Browns Team
Its to bad Roger had to be so bad to Nancy. In the Behind The Music doc, there was an incident mentioned where Roger smashed his guitar in the middle of the show and left the stage a la Axl Rose and backstage he almost beat the shit out of Nancy. And also he admitted to cheating on her.
It sucks that such a talented guitarist had to be such a douche, but if that incident didn't occur, It would have never inspired Ann to write my favorite Heart song and probably one of the most badass songs ever written, "If Looks Could Kill"
This should be the theme song to the show "Bully Beatdown"
And have you seen Nancy nowadays? The only 57 year old woman I'd do in a heartbeat.
How do you spell pretentious? S-A-M-M-Y H-A-G-A-R
Seeing as LardMachine is a bit heavy himself no wonder he'd be in favor of Heart's (y'know, the FAT chick in the band) entry into the beauty contest that is the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Shit. This is not even news. Heart should be kicked to the curb like an abandoned puppy.
...along with the rest of your crappy 80's pseudo-metal/hair bands.
Doesn't everyone look heavy to an anorexic?
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Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
Sharky sometimes needs things spelled out for him in explicit, specific detail. I used to think it was a lawyer thing, but over time it became more and more evident that he's merely someone's idiot twin.
I'm not anorexic. But I do know I look better than any failed musician - so yeah, I know I look way better than most of you.
We all know the RRHOF is lame.
But what the fuck. These bands struggled for a long time to get any kind of mainstream acceptance.
So if they can have some mainstream honors (whatever the fuck those are worth), then more power to them.
Am glad Albert King was inducted. I got to meet him briefly about 6 months before he died. Am glad I got to see him perform once.....lotta other blues greats I never got to see....
RUSH are shit - they've been shit since 1985.
"Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013
RUSH did suck after 1985. Album after boring album followed. Fuck them and fuck them for constantly ripping off their fans with horrible live releases and even crappier greatest hits packages. The should be ashamed.
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