Todd--I also ask the same about Herman's Hermits, the Monkees, Paul Revere & the Raiders, etc. Certainly all of them had more chart hits than Cheap Trick and probably more than Deep Purple. There's a real snobbery to the RARHOF: a clubby group of white male baby boomers who don't want to consider anything too bubblegummy or pop, but on the other hand have to be shamed into acknowledging many of the (mostly black) early rock-n-roll pioneers.
Oh, they include all sorts of disposable pop, while ignoring some less obvious innovators, including among the '60s bands. Deep Purple had one monster hit but weren't changing the course of rock even as much as the Sonics, let alone the Zombies...and the Raiders and the Monkees certainly caused more reverberations and had a more significant legacy than the self-pitying sexual assault misdemeanor crew the Red Tepid Chili Jackasses have or are likely to, to cite one one of my pet bad examples.
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Really can't get too excited one way or the other about this crop--except I find the inclusion of Cheap Trick a bit of a puzzler.
It's time to close the Hall to new inductees, unless it is someone who this blog thinks is clearly deserving, which leaves out most of the new people.
I miss the old days with inductees who mattered - Fats Domino, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard.
And they can all keep off my lawn!
**yawn**
Is it just me, or does the RnRHoF seem to be scraping the barrel?
They're still excluding a lot of people from the early years who belong in.
I can kind of see them (mostly)...but not while The Zombies aren't there...(no one told the voters about them?)
Todd--I also ask the same about Herman's Hermits, the Monkees, Paul Revere & the Raiders, etc. Certainly all of them had more chart hits than Cheap Trick and probably more than Deep Purple. There's a real snobbery to the RARHOF: a clubby group of white male baby boomers who don't want to consider anything too bubblegummy or pop, but on the other hand have to be shamed into acknowledging many of the (mostly black) early rock-n-roll pioneers.
/Dismounting soapbox now.
A lot of people share that soapbox, not that it does any good.
Oh, they include all sorts of disposable pop, while ignoring some less obvious innovators, including among the '60s bands. Deep Purple had one monster hit but weren't changing the course of rock even as much as the Sonics, let alone the Zombies...and the Raiders and the Monkees certainly caused more reverberations and had a more significant legacy than the self-pitying sexual assault misdemeanor crew the Red Tepid Chili Jackasses have or are likely to, to cite one one of my pet bad examples.
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