The Rock and roll hall of fame is a museum about music....That should be the first warning to everyone. The second warning sign is that the rock and roll hall of fame is in Cleveland Ohio. Yeah I love this city as every other miserable brainwashed browns fan, but come on..... really? I mean they don't even hold the awards ceremonies here....ok this year they are and they are gonna be lame.
There's lots of reasons why the concept itself of a rock and roll hall fame is just stupid. What is rock and roll? Who decides what is considered rock and roll. Apparentlly Grand Master Flash and Wanda Jackson are similar. Also the people who get inducted are so steralised and uncontrovertial....Black Sabath got passed up i believe 5 times...black sabbath the band that created and perfected a modern staple in pop music Heavy Metal don't get imediate recognition. And yeah I'd like to nominate some people well let's just say Sonic Youth was up for induction in 2007 and they still aren't in....lame
Ok besides tangents on why the nomination process is lame the museum itself is ridiculouslly boring. It's a museum to rock and roll....i already said that...but take a second and think about that. A museum to the most explosive performers in human art that we have....and there's a museum to it. with things hanging on the wall, and not even good shit that leads to insight of the artistic mind, it's just junk that got throw on a wall....jimi hendrix's drawings from when he was 12 about the USC football team....yeah i don't care....his mixer was kinda cool. I mean there were tvs with like 5 minute repeating clips about different eras, but they were all the generalized thoughts sort of redigested. I mean we all know that there were hippies in san fransisco fighting "the man" and doing lots of drugs. But like where did that start from. Where did lsd come from, who were the originators of the san fransisco sound, where were the cool places to go? I mean there were books there documenting all of that, but it was behind glass.I mean i learn more from watching fucking VH1 then i did at the museum i payed 22 dolars to get into.
I guessone thing that makes me so mad is that people are sooooooo ignorant about music. How pop music affects us all day everyday. You hear one song everyday in some form or another. I just think that if people became more informed about what they were listening to they might make better choices, look deeper into the art form they are so involved in and actually take something back more then a simple smile on their face. There's alot more then the music in your ears. There's the thoughts the lyrics the vast pyramid of history behind influences and sounds. How did we get here? What is this artists saying about the past present future? Do they have anything to say at all? Here's a museum dedicated to this great art form and most of the space is taken up by cars these people used to drive and dummies wearing stage outfits. And all the clothes and cars are nice pieces from the high points of the artists careers. Where's the ast bottle of jack that janis joplin drank. Where's the tshirt and jeans jon bonom puked himself to death in?Where's the outfit madonna wore when she walked into sire records off the street and demanded a record deal? where's that cool shit. The history laid out in away that leads to insight and thought. Not a giant white room with 25 pictures that represents the history of the African American influence in rock....and sorry danny but what the fuck was whitney houston doing in there.
Anyway this is what is wrong with music. Well it's a symptom of the whole. We can just listen and not think about it. We can have all the young kids get shit cramed down their throats for half their lives until they just don't have the energy to look up something genuinelly cool.I mean brittnay spears has had her career resurected more then once....why.? Because nobody cares that she makes terrible trite music with no heart. I mean she could have made some phenomenal music, the bitch has been through a lot, instead you get blackout and circus. Yeahy. And she will probablly be in the roc hall one day...sigh. I have to agree with Jonny Rotten who when asked why he and his band mates weren't going to accept the nomination to the hall " it's a piss stain"
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