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Please vote Link Wray in to the RnR Hall of Fame!
Joined: Aug 22, 2010 Posts: 614 Netherlands, Europe 
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 08:10 AM
Ok, we all know it is a small chance, but it's his second nomination! Here is the direct link: https://www.rockhall.com/fan-vote/2018-fan-vote My other suggestions are MC5 and Sister Rosetta Tharpe! —www.alohasluts.com |
Joined: Jul 12, 2012 Posts: 171 Cape Cod, USA 
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 08:29 AM
Good lord: Bon Jovi currently in first place, MC5 in last. Link also down near bottom. Kick out the mediocrity, Mother****ers! —Everybody up! |
Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 913 New York City area |
Posted on Oct 06 2017 08:52 AM
Bon Jovi - yes he "gave music a bad name". Are there acts around that make you cringe and wonder what evil you did in that they are still around? B.J. is one of my earthly punishments, perhaps just by way of living on the east coast. He and Springsteen consistently get a station change in the car - who wants to be irritated when they drive with painful-to-listen-to music? As for ol' Freddy Lincoln Wray, he's been gone the better part of a dozen years. His last widow buried him overseas and really has no real "juice" with the RRHOF; so I rather doubt it will happen. If those morons at RRHOF are considering BJ, why insult the memory of Link Wray with being a member of that increasing dopey club with some (not all) absolute JUNK as members? |
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Joined: Jul 30, 2016 Posts: 896
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 09:30 AM
Yeah, that whole thing is stupid. They don't deserve Link Wray. |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 2065 Virginia, USA
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 09:45 AM
This is just plain WRONG!
Paul |
Joined: Oct 01, 2014 Posts: 519 Streatham, London 
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 10:12 AM
If I sent the link to my Polish mates, Depeche Mode would race to the top. So I won't. |
Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 1911 Wear gloves - I'm in the Rockies
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 11:05 AM
Who gets in? The top 5? If it's just a popularity contest, then the system is flawed. Link is 20 thousand votes behind the 5th place band, and 50 thousand votes behind the 1st place band. Good luck finding 20,000 people who even know who Link Ray is, unfortunately. —"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been" |
Joined: Mar 15, 2011 Posts: 8528 Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 12:04 PM
I think the RRHOF board is going to have to intervene, and award Link membership for his historic contribution to Rock and Roll. They should make a big deal of it at the ceremony, and then announce the creation a special Link Wray award for historic artists. —This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. Last edited: Oct 06, 2017 12:05:19 |
Joined: Jul 13, 2012 Posts: 490 San Diego CA
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 12:29 PM
RnRHOF is a joke ...I refuse to even vote in this farce . |
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Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 1911 Wear gloves - I'm in the Rockies
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 12:32 PM
Here's how the induction process works. https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/induction-process And here's the nitty gritty of it all. All the public vote counts for is 1 of over 900 ballots. "Ballots are then sent to more than 900 historians, members of the music industry and artists—including every living Rock Hall inductee—and the five performers receiving the most votes become that year's induction class. Beginning in 2012, fans were given the chance to vote for the nominees they'd like to see inducted into the Rock Hall. The top five vote-getters in the public poll form one ballot, which is weighted the same as the rest of the submitted ballots." —"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been" |
Joined: Mar 13, 2015 Posts: 30
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 01:37 PM
Part of me wants to see Link as a rocknroll hall of fame member as he earned it, but i cant help thinking that part of the appeal in my humble opinion is that he was a cool outsider and his music was about that so if he was in the popular good old rocknroll hall of fame with the likes of bonjovi some of that appeal might be lost |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 02:51 PM
Participating in this legitimizes the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Please don't participate. |
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Joined: Mar 15, 2011 Posts: 8528 Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 03:01 PM
It's been a Pop Music hall of fame for a while. But as long as it means so much to Link's daughter Beth, I'll be on her side. And that's my only reason. —This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. |
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Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 1911 Wear gloves - I'm in the Rockies
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 03:23 PM
It's a 20 million dollar a year business. 20 million! That's pretty much all anyone needs to know. It's not about music, it's run to make the owners money in the guise of Rock and Roll History. If you look at who isn't in, and the huge number of women who aren't in, it's pretty obvious that the "committee" puts who they want in. Look up Dave Clark Five, for instance. They got more votes than Grand master Flash that got in, but the committee thought they "needed a rap group" that year. Michael Nesmith of The Monkees had the best quote about the HOF. "I can see the HOF (Hall of Fame) is a private enterprise. It seems to operate as a business, and the inductees are there by some action of the owners of the Enterprise. The inductees appear to be chosen at the owner's pleasure. This seems proper to me. It is their business in any case. It does not seem to me that the HOF carries a public mandate, nor should it be compelled to conform to one." I do like that they sometimes nominate people who the mainstream public don't know, like Link Wray. It might legitimize him a little in the eyes of the great uninitiated masses. And it won't change how I feel about him either way. —"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been" |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3861 North Atlantic 
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Posted on Oct 06 2017 06:10 PM
Thanks for the info. I was unaware of details in operations. |
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Joined: Nov 16, 2013 Posts: 4537 Wisconsin
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Posted on Oct 07 2017 07:41 AM
No, thank you. Wes DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices. |
Joined: Aug 26, 2015 Posts: 252 |
Posted on Oct 07 2017 04:08 PM
Glad to hear so many folks talking sense here! The HOF is like a dumb talent programme with everyone sucking up to each other, all hugging and blubbing over how great they all are. Makes me puke and Link is too cool to be there. Goucho said he wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have him as a member |
Joined: Sep 01, 2006 Posts: 2754 New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Oct 07 2017 06:36 PM
I feel like voting Link Wray in posthumously is unfair. He isn't able to decline. — |
Joined: Apr 28, 2009 Posts: 460 Victoria 
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Posted on Oct 07 2017 09:57 PM
If it wasn't for 3 on the bottom of the list, with the exception of Nina Simone the others would look and sound drastically different or not exist at all. All a bit of a joke really. — |
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