Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rejection Committee
Lets be honest, most of the people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland don’t actually deserve to be in there. Some do don’t get me wrong but most, not so much. So as a public service, our crack team of experts will boot “performers” out of the hall on a weekly basis.
Alright so here’s how it works: Every Wednesday, Adam, Arica, and Kevin will each oust someone only from the “performers” section of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Every performer must be kicked out for a reason; however, there are no restrictions as to the ridiculousness of the reason. Each week we will rotate which expert has first crack at removing someone. Our experts do not discuss their picks with each other prior to the submission. Once removed the performer will be taken off our list and we will continue to exhaust this list until we ultimately have a sole inductee remaining, the last performer standing will be the only remaining inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Click here to view all of the previous rejections.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Remaining: 97
Next Rejection: Wednesday, June 6th 2007
Next Rejection Order: Arica Kevin Adam
We have been slackers and have missed a few weeks, instead of starting a bad habit by posting multiple picks we have backlogged a few picks from everyone and hopefully we won’t get too behind anymore. Sorry again.
This Week’s Rejections:
Adam: As
you may have noticed by now, our rejections come from many different trains of
thought. Sometimes we kick artists out
because we don’t like them, other times we have very good reasons for booting
people, sometimes we even use ridiculous reasons to kick people out and other
times, such as Kevin’s pick last week, we use scientific logic. I choose to use some technology in my pick
tonight. As a huge hockey fan from
Buffalo, I had a rough couple of weeks since my Sabres lost the Eastern
Conference Finals to Ottawa, I decided to use this to help me get rid of
someone from the Hall of Fame. I went
to Yahoo and searched for “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” + “Ottawa”, the first
site that came back I clicked on, http://www.lycos.com/info/rock-and-roll--fame-foundation.html
upon reading through the site I found that the first inductee listed on the
site that has not already been kicked out was The
O'Jays (55), they are now
gone due to their completely random and almost completely non-existent
association with the Ottawa Senators.
Arica: This week I have decided
to give the boot to Lloyd Price
(56) because
even after reading his bio, I still don't know who he is. And in my little game
of random selection that's a good a reason as any to kick him to the curb.
Kevin: Too
often in my life, I am told to use a coaster when putting my drink on the
table. What does it matter when the
table is from IKEA, cost 25 dollars, and is going to be thrown away when I can
afford to buy a nicer one? I am sure
there is a legitimate answer but I don't want to hear it. Goodbye The
Coasters (57).
The Remaining Inductees
(in the order they were inducted):
James
Brown
Ray
Charles
Sam
Cooke
Fats
Domino
The
Everly Brothers
Buddy
Holly
Elvis
Presley
Eddie
Cochran
Aretha
Franklin
Marvin
Gaye
B.
B. King
Roy
Orbison
Smokey
Robinson
Big
Joe Turner
Muddy
Waters
Jackie
Wilson
The
Beatles
Bob
Dylan
Dion
Otis
Redding
The
Rolling Stones
The
Temptations
Hank
Ballard
The
Kinks
The
Platters
Simon
and Garfunkel
The
Who
LaVern
Baker
John
Lee Hooker
The
Impressions
Wilson
Pickett
Jimmy
Reed
Bobby
"Blue" Bland
Booker
T. and the M.G.'s
The
Isley Brothers
The
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Creedence
Clearwater Revival
The
Doors
Etta
James
Van
Morrison
Sly
and the Family Stone
The
Animals
Duane
Eddy
Elton
John
John
Lennon
Bob
Marley
The
Allman Brothers Band
Al
Green
Janis
Joplin
Led
Zeppelin
Frank
Zappa
David
Bowie
Jefferson
Airplane
Little
Willie John
Pink
Floyd
The
Velvet Underground
The
(Young) Rascals
Buffalo
Springfield
Crosby,
Stills and Nash
Parliament-Funkadelic
Fleetwood
Mac
The
Mamas and the Papas
Santana
Gene
Vincent
Billy
Joel
Curtis
Mayfield
Paul
McCartney
Del
Shannon
Bruce
Springsteen
The
Staple Singers
Eric
Clapton
The
Moonglows
James
Taylor
Aerosmith
The
Flamingos
Michael
Jackson
Queen
Paul
Simon
Steely
Dan
Ritchie
Valens
Brenda
Lee
Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers
Ramones
Talking
Heads
The
Clash
Elvis
Costello & the Attractions
Jackson
Browne
George
Harrison
Bob
Seger
Traffic
ZZ
Top
The
Pretenders
Black
Sabbath
Blondie
Miles
Davis
Sex
Pistols
*** The WGR Rant ***
A few years back Steve
Cichon created the rejection committee idea for Mike Schopp’s radio show in
WNSA. After starting the Baseball Hall
of Fame rejection Committee, Schopp left WNSA for WGR, eventually Cichon would
end up at WBEN, WGR’s sister station.
It was at WGR that Schopp, finally finished the Baseball Hall of Fame
Rejection Committee and started fresh with the Football Hall of Fame. I (Adam Obstein) then asked Cichon and
Schopp’s producer at the time, if we could borrow the idea and do the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame Rejection Committee on Star 102.5 (WTSS) another sister
station. After being granted
permission, this new rejection committee started kicking people out on
Wednesday July 5th, 2005.
This sketch ended in mid to late April of the following year because a
certain Program Director decided she ran the entire company and wanted me off
the air. The original Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Rejection Committee was killed off with less than 30 members
left. Wanting to finish the bit, I
started up this website on January 1st 2007 and restarted the
Committee with new members shortly thereafter.
A week into February, WGR’s Schopp and the Bulldog show, stole the
Rejection Committee idea back and started kicking people out of the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. Despite the fact
that the station is a sports talk station, and a sub par one at that, they have
switched their focus to music. As a
hockey fan, I find it rather insulting that they didn’t move on to the next
logical Hall, the Hockey Hall of Fame, or even the Basketball Hall, no, they
decided to just blatantly steal our variation and make a mockery of it. WGR, you should be ashamed of
yourselves. I know its hard to be
creative but having worked there I know you have a creative staff and you can
do better than stealing from former employees.
When you read anything from Morning Show In My Mind you should read the
entire page, for instance some of this history is written at the bottom of this
page, but if you go back a page to our homepage and read the bottom of that
page you will notice our message about copyright and plagiarism. As I point out there, we try hard to site
all of our sources, well you have just read the history, and you now know where
the original idea came from. We had
permission and borrowed the idea, we made it ours and they stole it. If someone tells you to listen to WGR’s bit
about kicking people our of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, you can tell them
you prefer the original, right here.
*** Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rejection Committee: A Look Back ***
The idea for the Rejection Committee was initially thought up by Steve Cichon, at the
time, the Program Director for WNSA (107.7FM Radio). WNSA and later WGR
(550AM Radio) rejected inductees from the Football and Baseball Hall
of Fames. It was then that the idea for
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rejection Committee was developed by Adam
Obstein for on air use on WGR’s sister station WTSS (Star 102.5FM). The on air bit had a good run for a while
but was eventually cut by forces beyond our control, the committee never
finished rejecting the halls inductees.
So now a new committee has been formed to not only equal the task but
also hopefully finish it once and for all.
The End.