To all you people who gave me shit about Steve Miller Band and their music....

[LynneSin]

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year's inductees: Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A and Steve Miller will all join the class of 2016. They will be inducted April 8th during a ceremony at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, with tickets on sale to the public in February. HBO will broadcast the show in the spring.

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That's Steve Miller, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to you now!!!

[Scuba]

1. Cheesehead Steve Miller, godson of Les Paul, absolutely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!

[LynneSin]

2. Absol-Fucking-lutely!!!!

[CBGLuthier]

3. He good. Would rather die than hear Abracadabra again but the rest not so bad.

Always liked Space Cowboy in particular.

Can't really argue with this year's list. N.W.A. hasn't got anything to do with Rock'n'Roll but at least they're good.

I still maintain my position that until they let Tull in they are useless but no issues with these outfits.

[LynneSin]

5. I'm glad N.W.A. made the cut this year and here's why

I'm ok with the fact that non-Rock and Roll bands are making it into the RRHOF but there needs to be good reasons as to why. Rap and Hip-Hop is a huge part of the music industry today and needs to be recognized. And like any music genre for every truly talented artist/band in that genre there is a ton of crap.

A few years back both Public Enemy and NWA both made the list for the first time but only Public Enemy was selected. To me, these two groups are pretty much the architects for Rap music as we know it today. Most rap artists trace their roots back to either 'East Coast' or Public Enemy (aka 'Do the Right Thing') or 'West Coast' and NWA (aka 'Boys in the Hood'). I felt both groups should have been inducted in the same year. But I'm glad that NWA did get in finally. Dr Dre has a huge influence on West Coast Rap and this group deserves induction. Maybe by waiting it was best each group gets their own celebration instead of watering them down together.

I was also excited about Cheap Trick making the cut and although I'm not a fan of Deep Purple I know the fans have been pushing hard to get them inducted.

My next big push is to get YES and Electric Light Orchestra/Jeff Lynne in there. With Steve Miller getting inducted solo for the Steve Miller Band it makes me think there is a strong argument that Jeff Lynne could get in there solo based on not just his music with Electric Light Orchestra but also his work as a top producer for some of the best artists (most who are also RRHOF members including 3 of the Beatles and the Beatles too)

[OriginalGeek]

4. Saw him a couple years ago

it was a great show!

[malthaussen]

6. No problem with Steve Miller...

... but you can take the Rock Hall of Fame and...

-- Mal

[Paladin]

7. About damned time that Miller made it in. (nt)

[KamaAina]

8. Early Steve Miller is pretty damn good

e.g. Livin' In The U.S.A. He was part of the SF blues-rock scene centered around the Fillmore West. It wasn't until later that he moved to Oregon and became part of the blues-schlock scene.

[kwassa]

9. I only like the early Steve Miller, too.

He turned into a superficial pop star pretty quickly.

[madinmaryland]

14. You're that old? I thought you were an El Supremo faker who was about

25.

[KamaAina]

15. Not quite. But Mom raised me properly.

She swears she was going to take me to Woodstock but chickened out at the last minute.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. Great song. From 1972:

I've been to a lot of Goodwills and Salvation Armys, and I never see clothes like that. They are long gone.

[BeyondGeography]

37. Somebody give me a cheeeeeeeseburger

Irresistible.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Deep Purple Wasn't Already In?

I'm glad i didn't know that or i would have been pissed off the whole time.

Also: on The Joker, there is a live song at the end of the second side. Guitar solo on that is superb.

Lastly, my band once opened for Cheap Trick. Really pleasant group of people. Even their road crew was as nice as could be.

Nobody was there to see us, but we didn't get booed! Small victories.

[Special Prosciuto]

11. I never gave you shit.

But I think 'Joker' was his worst. Okay, a 1940s catcall whistle on guitar was good. The repetition rather annoying.

[LynneSin]

13. I love the Joker

Why do you make baby Jesus cry?

[Special Prosciuto]

16. What?

[Snobblevitch]

12. I saw all of them live

with the exception of N.W.A.

We played "Smoke on the Water' in high school pep band. If there was not a bass
player available, the band instructor played the bass part on his electric trumpet.

[IDemo]

17. I got to speak with him many years ago when I worked in telephone repair

He seemed like a genuinely nice guy you'd like to have a beer with.

[lastlib]

18. Until they induct the MOODY BLUES, it's a Hall of nothing!

They put in the f***ing NWA, but NOT the MOODY BLUES, ferGodssake??!? Then they ain't fit to wipe my ass. I mean, "Days of Future Passed", "A Question of Balance", "Seventh Sojurn", and they're not in a Hall of Fame??!? Kiss my used toilet paper!

[Archae]

20. Agree 100%.

[U4ikLefty]

19. I saw him this last July...he's still got it.

What a great show!

[Archae]

21. I wouldn't give you shit about Steve Miller Band.

I would be honest.

They suck!

Stupid lyrics, boring, repetitious "music," just plain over-hyped garbage.

I mean...

"Abracadabra, reach out and grab ya!"
"Rockin' me baby, baby baby baby!"
"I wanna fly like an eagle, to the sea..."

[LynneSin]

22. Those are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lyrics too

[Archae]

23. Speaks volumes about the HoF...

Especially how they ignore the Moody Blues.

[DFW]

24. I liked most of his material

I remember it from the 1970s, and saw him last year in Cape Cod.

Lost a little of his edge but not much.

[LynneSin]

25. Like any artist, he has songs that suck. I can't stand 'No Quarter' by Led Zeppelin

but I still love the band!

[DFW]

26. I've never even heard that song

But I was never Led Zepplin's biggest fan. By the mid 70s, I was into Jackson Browne, Leo Kottke, Bonnie Raitt, the Eagles, Queen, Russian and Balkan folk music, all the while retaining my love of the best of the sixties.

[Zorro]

28. I've always thought Steve Miller was kinda meh

but I do really like this rather simple tune.

[KG]

29. RnRHoF still a fucking joke.

[Miles Archer]

30. I'd also like to apologize for every bad thing I ever said on DU about Led Zeppelin...

...because they really do rock.

[LynneSin]

31. Just an FYI.... You are now dead to me

Deal with it!!!!

[Miles Archer]

32. I get that a lot

[LynneSin]

33. Did someone reply to my post? I swear the person sounds just like this......

[Miles Archer]

34. OH DEAR GOD NOT NICKELBACK

It's funny, I was reading something the other day about Metallica's "Death Magnetic" album, how it's "Kirk Hammett's Revenge," filled with lengthy guitar solos on pretty much every track, as a response to the fans' response to "St Anger," which...in their INFINITE WISDOM...Lars Ulrich and producer Bob Rock decided had to be built on the Nickelback template of "no guitar solos," because after all, Nickelback IS the future of rock & roll.

MEH.



Enjoy the following "Death Magnetic" track as an olive branch...I promise David Coverdale is nowhere to be found.

[LynneSin]

35. And yet the offensive Coverdale video still exists in the thread

I just know you're feeling the 'Arms Wide Open'

[Miles Archer]

36. Holy crap, following up Nickelback with CREED is Taliban-level aggression

I'm going to have to give the removal of Jimmy & David some serious consideration.



Here's the ACTUAL surviving members with Jason on "Kashmir."

Now that you've posted Nickelback and Creed, the only way you could strike a lower blow would be Bret Michaels and his "Every rose has a thorn" excremental musings. Please, just don't go there. For me, Michaels is like Kroger and Stapp rubber banded together. I shouldn't have enjoyed that video of the loudspeaker landing on his head while he was doing his "unskinny bop" Axl Rose dance, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't.

[Lizzie Poppet]

38. Kashmir, you say?

Same song, different cranky British Isles rock geezer (plus awesome Italian QT3.14159 violinist goodness)...