R&R HOF

[4stringer77]

Let's hear it for Randy Newman! Apparently he rocked harder than Deep Purple. 

[westen44]

And the people who voted for it to be this way can go back to their insane asylums now. 

[Dave W]

RRHOF is Jann Wenner's plaything. It's never been about who rocks harder. Half the acts aren't rock at all.

[uwe]

I like Randy Newman. I also like Deep Purple, but whether they are in the RRHF or not ... Won't buy them another mansion, will it?  I'm more interested in their Bob Ezrin produced work coming out in April. I prefer them as working entity (for the few years they still have) rather than a memorial. They already Mount Rushmorized themselves as young men in their twenties with the In Rock cover, to this day one of the most iconic pop art album covers of the time. You could always pick it out in any shop and I remember that even I as a 10 year old was impressed by it though the music at that point - I preferred The Beatles and hard rock was still a few years away for me - still went over my head.

Blackers will see himself confirmed. He despises the RRHF and boycotted DP's last attempt there (some years back, the Bee Gees were inducted that year, all of them were still alive). Roger Glover will be disappointed though, it would have meant something to him.

It's a bit like Kiss, once you have been turned down often enough, it is commemoration enough to not be included.

[Pilgrim]

It's a bit like Kiss, once you have been turned down often enough, it is commemoration enough to not be included.

When I was at Texas A&M they had a really big Science Fiction convention every year.  One year they invited Robert A. Heinlein to be the keynote speaker, and he decided not to come.  After that, every year they had a Special Guest Non-Appearance by R.A. Heinlein on the schedule.  As far as I know they're still carrying on that tradition.  But then, they're Aggies, so if they do something twice they're obligated to do it in perpetuity.

[Highlander]

He always was a stranger in a strange land... RAH quit writing some years back and got into music; even wrote some, so I heard; nowadays he's mostly de-composing...

... as for the RRHOF...

[uwe]

[Rob]

Let's hear it for Randy Newman! Apparently he rocked harder than Deep Purple. 

It's not who ya' know it's who ya'