Most relevant R&R Hall-of-Who-Cares acceptance speech... OF ALL TIME!!!

[dogknob]

Alex Lifeson gives the best awards acceptance speech in the history of awards acceptance speeches. This gem among typical awards-show faux-earnest drool comes after his colleagues make it effortlessly clear that the members of Rush care more about their fans and music than anyone else living in the limelight today.

If the Sex Pistols had been inducted last night -- had John Lydon given the speech Alex Lifeson gave, the editors at Rolling Stone would have devoted countless ASCII characters to deciphering its political and social implications.

But Lydon gave no speech at all back in 2006. Instead Rolling Stone head-cheese Jann Wenner himself read a prepared statement that was everything he has built a fortune for himself insisting bands like Rush are guilty of... contrived and pretentious.

[Dr. Strange]

1. Is it just me...

or was Alex's speech a little, I don't know, "blah"?

[dogknob]

2. If Lydon had given it, it would have been "a stinging indictment..."

"...blah blah blah."

[Bigleaf]

3. I agree. I was there in person Thursday evening.

Big Al's speech was hilarious, a big, who f@&$ing cares, we're only here because our fans were outraged enough to get us inducted. What you missed was at the very beginning of the show, Jann Wenner came out and was booed heavily by 7,000 Rush fans (95% of the crowd was there for Rush, me included). Remember it was Jann who said over his dead body would Rush ever be inducted.

[hifiguy]

4. What a breath of fresh air.

Sometimes nice guys do finish first.

I salute you gentlemen as a fellow musician who always aspired to something more than three stupid chords repeated forever. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. It must have been wonderful to be there.

Oh, and fuck Jann Wenner with a pitchfork.