The reason I gave Chicago a lower score than their popularity would seem to indicate they deserve is because of their intentional (but successful) move towards pure mainstream pop/adult contemporary material

So, according to you, Chicago is even with Bananarama in hall of fame worthiness, and behind such luminaries as the Cars (7), Flying Burrito Brothers (6), Gap Band (6), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (6), MC5 (6), Motorhead (6), Soundgarden (6), Larry Williams (6), and Warren Zevon (6).

Tell us, who is a higher (5), Chicago or the Moody Blues?

And can you confirm that you see Warren Zevon. the Gap Band and Motorhead as each being more hall of fame worthy than either Chicago or the Moody Blues?

This may become significant later at your inevitable sanity hearing.

I've been emailing back and forth with Terry Stewart, the CEO of the hall of fame. He buys records from me. He says that the commitee to assess the older artists nominate Roy Brown and Wynonie Harris every year, but they never get put on the ballot by the main nominating committee. He is personally pushing every year for the Mills Brothers and Ravens as early infleunces, but that's going nowhere either. Then there's the Clovers and the Dominoes who are still waiting.

Then there's sht like the whole Dave Clark 5 fiasco a few years ago, and stories of doo wop groups being voted in, but not getting inducted because they want a more modern act that will draw some people to the dinner instead.

The biggest problem with things is that there is no transparency. They don't tell the public who is on these nominating commitees, and they don't tell the public how many votes each nominee got, or anything like that.

The whole thing has just become one big farce.

They get recommended for nomination by a special commitee every year. The commitee is supposed to evaluate old time artists who may have been overlooked, 50s and earlier artists. But every year the main nominating committee refuses to do anything with Wynonie and Roy. The way Terry Stewart was talking they have no chance of getting in under the current system.

Part of the problem is that unlike Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson, Wynonie and Roy were not big influences on any white guitar rock and rollers of the 60s. Their influences was directly to other black artists, like Jackie Wilson, who sings very similarly to Roy Brown, and James Brown, who recorded a couple Wynonie songs. Both were also influences on Elvis, but because none of their precious Eric Claptons or Keith Richards ever mentions Roy or Wynonie, these hippie schmucks who run the HOF are not really aware of their influence.

These 60s British guys were mainly guitar players, so they were not very influenced by 1940s R&B stars who were just frontmen. Elvis of course was influenced by those guys, but since their influence did not extend to 60s white rockers, it is discounted by these schmucks.

From "Fever," Susan Whitall's recently-published biography of Little Willie John.

Also, what do you think the chances of Harry Belafonte being inducted into the Rock Hall are?

To Sampson

Have you been to Future Rock Legends? It's the next best thing to Digital Dream Door!

http://www.futurerocklegends.com/index.php

Also, what do you think the chances of Harry Belafonte being inducted into the Rock Hall are? Should he be inducted as an Early Influence or main performer? How would you rate The Surfaris and The Kingston Trio?

Also, what do you think the chances of Harry Belafonte being inducted into the Rock Hall are? Should he be inducted as an Early Influence or main performer? How would you rate The Surfaris and The Kingston Trio?

This stuff, first release dates, isn't exactly hard to find. It's one thing to get it wrong when just dropping a casual comment in a post, that's no big deal, but when you're having an entire section centered around when artists are eligible and then get so many wrong, it's just sloppy. I've checked the site out, but don't respect what they do very much.

Yeah, they swiped a ton of my stuff there, I don't appreciate that. Also there site is based on fans perspectives with the votes and such, so I don't take it seriously. Additionally their years of eligibilty are often wrong. Salt-n-Pepa they had as first being eligible this past year, when in fact they've been eligible for a few years. They have BDP as being eligible for the first time this upcoming fall, when actually they were eligible last year. There's a lot more, too numerous to mention. This stuff, first release dates, isn't exactly hard to find. It's one thing to get it wrong when just dropping a casual comment in a post, that's no big deal, but when you're having an entire section centered around when artists are eligible and then get so many wrong, it's just sloppy. I've checked the site out, but don't respect what they do very much.

FM radio formatting? That's not going to sway anyone who knows about radio practices.

7 - An Eventual Induction Is Likely