Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony Thoughts
Did you get a chance to watch the Rock Hall induction ceremony last night? I saw the first and last half of it because my wife wanted to watch a movie. Hopefully I can catch a re-run so I can check out the Run DMC portion of the show.
I figured I would take a few minutes to share my thoughts and get a conversation started to see what you thought.
First, it is always cool to see dudes at that age still getting the job done. Little Anthony and the Imperials were fun to watch – My 2 year daughter was even shaking her butt a little. It was one of the times were I knew that I heard the songs before but didn’t know who did them – now I know.
Being a metalhead – and other than the fact that I started feeling old – I really enjoyed the Metallica portion of the show. The big softy in me thought it was great to see Jason Newsted jamming with them. He deserves the recognition since he was part of the group during some of it most significant work.
I also think it was cool to hear Jason and Robert to give props to their old bands Flotsam and Jetsam and Suicidal Tendencies respectively.
I loved Flea’s speech. I kinda felt the same way when I heard “Fight Fire with Fire” for the first time.
During his speech, James Hetfield mentioned a ton of other bands that he thought should be in the Rock Hall. Bands like Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Judas Priest and Motorhead. Not only do I agree but I think you make a case that anyone of those bands should be in there before Metallica, Jeff Beck or Run DMC (who I think should be in there BTW). But, I’m sure like most things, its all political. Wha-da-ya-do?
I was kind of hoping that maybe Rod Stewart would surprise us and so a tune with Beck but nothing. The “Immigrant Song” was pretty cool and I really dug his band. They really get into it. And how about the chick playing bass. She can groove.
Jimmy Page – who is starting to look a bit like George Washington – sure likes to talk about himself and seems to come off as being a dick. Don’t get me wrong, he is a legend and I am a huge Zeppelin fan but I’m just saying. Maybe it was to tv guys drooling all over him. Those guys acted like 13 year olds teeny boppers in the presense of the Jonas Brothers.
Like I said, I regrettably missed Run DMC but hopefully I will get a chance to check it out in the near future. If you watched the show, let us know what you thought about the festivities in the comments below.
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I don’t think Run DMC performed. As a music lover in general and not limiting myself to metal, Boby Womack was great. Paul Schaffer was tearin up the keyboards and piano during his sessions and yes, Jimmy Page is starting to look a little like George Washington…but a rocking GW.
Sounds like I’ll have to try and catch the Womack performance. Kinda sucks theat Run DMC didn’t perform. Whats up with that? Don’t they have it anymore?