Jeff Beck, Metallica, The Stooges Nominated For Rock Hall 2009 (Page 1 of 2)

Travesty. Stevie deserved it. Oh well. At least they're looking at Jeff Beck.

Deep Purple should definitely be there, they were as influential in their day as Sabbath and Zeppelin. There's few bands that ever had such a collection of talented members together. I read an interview with Kirk Hammett of Metallica recently in which he stated how much he had learned from Blackmore's playing.
Stevie too, I'm sure I'd find a few more if I checked the list.

Given the fact that I think the Stooges recorded the most significant record in my music listening career, it is right and just that they are there.

Deep Purple.  I am serious music person, and I do not think they belong there.  They are hardly influential given the spectrum of metal music or even hard rock.  They are not even in the top five bands to come out of that region in that genre.

SRV, it is completely arguable.  I have read stuff here holding him up as a a blues man extrordinaire, but is he?  Or is it a really Texas-ified version of Hendrix washed through a Freddie King wash bucket?  If you listen to SRV talk about it, he talk incessently about the Freddie King shuffle being the basis for 90% of what he does.

Madonna belongs there because she is a watershed, she changed music for both women and the genre.

RUN DMC are the Beatles and the Stones combined of the hip hop generation.  They are the kings of the culture that defines youth culture today.  More hip hop and r and b is sold than rock and blues and all other genres comined.

I do not think Stevie Ray Vaughan is as musically significant as RUN DMC.  First, less records.  Second, shorter career.  Third, less of an impact.  While blues guys wanna be cool and hold him up, it is really Hendrix they are holding up.

Well Keith, make an arguement FOR Yes or Rush.  State a case.

Exactly, Eva.

Dino..you know I like you and respect your opinions..but..I can't hold my tongue on this.... SRV is not as significant to ROCK AND ROLL as DMC or Madonna!! Now you're showing your age. As Joe has said before..all musicians borrow sounds/riffs from previous players. I bet even your man Scott Holt copied somebody's sound in the process of finding his own.

Madonna didn't affect R&R, she is a POP icon..On behalf of Bonnie Raitt and the Wilson sisters, I take offense at the idea that she changed ANYTHING for the women of R&R.

OK I'm calm now..You really are good at pushing buttons young man.......Cathy

Cathy,

You are simply wrong.  With respect, you are wrong.

Let us be cleaer about Bonnie  Raitt, he record sales more than tripled AFTER the birth of MTV and her appearance on it.

MTV is born of Madonna.

Thusly, Madonna by degree is directly responsible for the greater success of Bonnie Raitt.

The Wilson sisters were playing 5000 seaters prior to MTV, and MTV propelled them **** did the blond sisters good looks even further than they had been before.

My man Scott is irrelevant.  To bring up my friend is a personal attack, on both me and Scott.  And it is insulting.  And in defense, his first band...oh yeah it was BUDDY GUYS BAND.  That is where he found his sound.

SRV is not as signficant to rock and roll as a whole as RUN DMC or Madonna.  There is no other way to say that.  If I ask ten musicians, guitar players today who was the most significant force, I am more likely to NOT get SRV.

Read Rolling Stone, look at SPIN, when they ask young musicians who their influences are...I have not read anyone say SRV in a while.  Not even John Mayer.  ANd he was sucking the SRV teet for a while there.

Madonna directly affected rock and roll of today.  Look at the pagentry of Panic at the Disco, directly comes out of the blonde ambition tour, and its work with Versace.

Look at the embracing of fashion by rock and roll, directly comes from Madonna and her being vocal about that.  Now you have people like Lenny Kravitz, and countless others being open about being fashion whores while being rock stars.

I am sorry.  You are simply wrong about the influence of SRV versus the influence of RUN DMC and Madonna.

There are two old sayings that fit quite nicely here:

"There is no accounting for taste."

And...

"Better to keep your mouth shut, and have people think you're a fool.....than to open it and remove all doubt."