No word yet on whether Gary Cherone will be included, but here’s the just-released list:
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (Kid Creole, Cowboy, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Mr. Ness, Raheim)
- R.E.M. (Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe)
- The Ronettes (Estelle Bennett, Ronnie Spector, Nedra Talley)
- Patti Smith
- Van Halen
The ‘jam session’ for that one will be interesting.
I hate the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame but I love thinking about the brick the room collectively shat after hearing Johnny Ramone said “God bless President Bush” in his acceptance speech.
Gary Cherone? Hell, I hope they don’t include Sammy. I’m not a Hagar-hater, I just don’t think the subset of Van Halen’s oeuvre that dates from his term as frontman isn’t Hallworthy.
i can not STAND hagar. i hate hagar solo stuff, i hate van hagar, i hate his ‘cabo’ garbage. sammy hagar is a white trash jimmy buffet.
I don’t think Van Hagar will be eligible until the 25th-anniversary release of 5150.
Van Hagar was able to exist thanks to the DLR catalog…
I agree that Hagar is the white trash Jimmy Buffett…if only he can could his own line of frozen coconut shrimp in the grocery stores and his plans for world domination would be complete…
well, he does have that tequila.
van hagar overall is crap, but ‘poundcake’ is an absolutely terrific karaoke song. FACT.
Least shocking news: R.E.M. getting in on the first year of eligibility. (If U2 did, so would they.)
But Patti Smith?! How did this lavishly adored punk goddess get ignored for so long? Horses came out in ’75, which means she’s been eligible for six, seven years now. Weird.
I will give them props for inducting Grandmaster Flash right away; I had a theory that they’d wait until 2008 and let Run-DMC be the first rap inductee. Good for them.
Van Hagar should not be eligible until two and a half decades after the year 5150, meaning, 5175. And I mean Gregorian, not the Hebrew Year.
(Even though I love “Love Walks In” because it was the soundtrack of my middle school adolescent angst.)
The Cherone question is cleared up on the Rock Hall website (http://www.rockhall.com): Roth and Hagar are both officially in, but Cherone and Wolfgang are not.
Van Halen’s accolades are criminally overdue. It’s about goddamn time. I even like Van Hagar. (Yeah, that’s what I said!)
It’s about time for REM too; although I am generally not a fan I recognize their contribution to the genre.
@lucasg
sammy hagar is a white trash jimmy buffet.
This sentence erroneously presumes that there is something “refined” or “sophisticated” about Jimmy Buffet.
I assure you. There is not.
Jimmy Buffet is a white trash Jimmy Buffet.
Now, I’ve been reading Dave Lee Roth’s autobiography, and i am flabberghasted page after page. It is a stunning book.
“i defy anyone to draw cottage cheese” he says, and my jaw drops.
When he talked about having a panic attack after spanking some chick with a hairbrush, i almost wet myself on the bus.
I urge evryone to seek this inspirational tome out, and learn from it. One day it will form the basis for a new religion, and we all will evolve to the next level of mankind.
Diamond Dave also NEVER TURNED 30, but you’ll have to read the book to find out how.
Paul D says:
It’s about time for REM too
It’s about time, but it’s not a day overdue: the Rock Hall rules state that acts are eligible 25 years after their first release (of, I think, an album or at least an EP). Chronic Town came out in ’81, which made them eligible for 2006′s balloting and this year’s induction. So they got in immediately.
Poor Dave Clark Five – their name’s been floating around for years now. And how the hell have the Stooges not been inducted yet?!
trust me paul d, i know how mind bending the concept of a white trash jimmy buffet is, and i stand by my statement.
Can I just say one thing? It’s Buffett.
This message brought to you by someone who is scarred by her experience copyediting Buffett-related material in a previous life.
Since Roth is in Louis Prima totally deserves an “Early Influences” nod. Nat King Cole is in this dump fer chrissakes…
Is REM in as an “early influences” for the current emo rage? I hope so, cause as a “rock” band they can barely play their way out of a paper bag…might as well put in, the far superior, Tears for Fears.
Go ahead and bash me as well, but everyone blames Hagar for the band getting soft. Van Halen became Eddie’s band when Roth left(and it was him who left). 5150 is their third biggest selling album behind VH 1 & 1984. Of course the Roth era VH is much better, but why don’t you compare Van Hagar with solo era David Lee Roth. Such awesome songs as “Just Like Paradise” don’t cut it compared to “Get Up” or “Poundcake”.
which would be a weirder jam session moment, van halen trying to cover ‘talk about the passion’ or REM trying to cover ‘hot for teacher?’
I was a DLR faithful, but respected Hagar for Montrose and his early solo work. Ironically, it was Sammy that showed us that there was “more than one way to rock” as he exceeded Diamond Dave. Van Halen was more successful after Roth because on top of being a showman, Hagar actually had a vocal range. He didn’t need ass-less tights to bring it, and was just as rock’n in sweatpants.
Buffett & Hagar white trash? If fine tequila, and paradise are the new white trash — I want me some of that you poser lucas.