What is worse than sport halls of fame?
Answer: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Or as I like to put it…the Cleveland Museum of Musical Criticism as told by Journalistic Neurotics claiming to understand Rock and Roll.
There should at least be this criteria for being inducted into a the Rock and Roll Hall: Most of us have heard of something you sang or played on!
I don’t have a personal beef with The 5 Royales…or The Paul Butterfield Blues Band…or Lou Reed (so I have heard of him)…or…believe me I could go on. I do wonder how they can be in a hall of fame.
Answer: Music Critics. They are worse than sportswriters. They know it all. They try to be creative because they don’t play an instrument themselves. You can throw a laptop across the room and it won’t make a good sound. You can blow on a pen and piece of paper and no one will care. So…they care little about what most of us like and use their own agenda to try to sway us to their liking. In the meantime…they waste their time. I gloss over music reviews in my newspaper.
You who know me probably guessed it. The Moody Blues are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I hope they never get their. They deserve better.
Reasons The Moody Blues have not been inducted into the AMERICAN hall?
Could be:
None of The Moody Blues ever wore an earring. Playing sell out tours in 2014 isn’t cool. Selling 70 million records just doesn’t cut it. No members dead of drug-overdose. Lead singer married to same lady since 1969. Too many all over the world know the song Nights in White Satin word for word.
Who knows? And really, who cares? The Moodies just keep on rocking like the “Singers in a Rock and Roll Band” they are. Where is there a better hall than that? Maybe in the kitchen.
I WROTE THOSE WORDS IN 2015. I never dreamed the Moody Blues would ever be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They made it this past April. Made what, I don’t know. I will find out in two days. I have been to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. That is the only Hall of Fame I have been to. I won’t visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame as long Ken Anderson is not there.
But I do plan on visiting the Rock Hall of Fame as Carrie and I will be passing through Cleveland in a couple of days. It is tragic that it took The Moody Blues this long to find their way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But, for better or worse, they got there.
So…I approve.
I read recently that Justin Hayward will probably hand his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trophy to a family member…who could blame him.
Speaking the rights in a cool Amherst, Mass not looking forward to 106 degree heat index values that await in Southern Indiana in a few days.
Speaking the rights…
Danny Johnson