Deep Purple in the R&RHOF, finally.

[Miles Archer]

Next year, it needs to be UFO's turn.

[KamaAina]

1. Um, Tull needs to be in way, way before UFO.

Not a bad class, though: besides Deep Purple, we've got Cheap Trick, Chicago, Steve Miller (relax. His early work doesn't suck a bit. ) and even N.W.A.!

[Miles Archer]

2. I don't care what you say, he STILL needs further punishment for "Abracadabra."

He's DAMN LUCKY Starship did "We Built This City" because it deflects much-needed scorn from his own back yard, but this man has not suffered nearly enough for his misdeeds. The greatest insult of all will be if he performs it at the ceremony.

[KamaAina]

3. Sorry, but "We Built This City" is NOT the worst song of all time.

The old-school mike break from KFRC ("The city that rocks, the city that never stops!&quot disqualifies it from consideration.

[KamaAina]

4. Hmmm. I see you posted the video.

Could it be that "Abracadabra" is a guilty pleasure of yours?

[Miles Archer]

5. No, I'm simply trying to anger the masses who may not have heard it

There was a great story in one of the biographies about Lou Reed in which the late, legendary and incendiary critic Lester Bangs reviewed Lou's "Metal Machine Music." It basically centered around Lester breaking glass bottles in the middle of the street at 3 AM and yelling in a loud chant "MACHINE! MACHINE! MACHINE!"

So I figure, you know, if enough people get angry over "Abracadabra" it might send some kind of karmic vibe to Miller before the awards ceremony, some kind of gris gris or mojo that would form a mental block against his being able to remember it long enough to perform it.

Or maybe they could bring this guy up onstage:

[mgmaggiemg]

9. if your're trains on time you can get to work by nine

how I love to work at nothing all day

[LynneSin]

7. I thought it was a great group all around and was glad to see Steve Miller get in there

I'm a HUGE Steve Miller band and sure he's had his bad songs but he's had some awesome songs too. His music was like the sound track of every frat part I attended in the 80s and every beach road trip I took too.

I'm tired of people dissing the fact that NWA also made the cut. I am excited they were selected and they do deserve it. Dr Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E and the rest of NWA are like the start of the West Coast sound of Rap and should have gotten in the same year that Public Enemy (the East Coast godfathers of rap) got into RRHOF. I think PE got it first because 'Do The Right Thing' was a much bigger movie than 'Boyz in the Hood' (DTRT featured Public Enemy music and brought it to the masses for the first time whereas BITH did the same for NWA).

Probably the success of 'Straight out of Compton' at the movie theaters this past summer helped to push NWA to the top of the ballots for this round of RRHOF voting. They really do belong in there!

[KamaAina]

8. "'Do The Right Thing' was a much bigger movie than 'Boyz in the Hood'"

Among white people, anyway, which would cover about 99% of RRHOF voters.

[LynneSin]

6. Yes and Electric Light Orchestra need to be in there too

[Miles Archer]

10. I'd love to see Yes and King Crimson in the same year as it would be a double win for Bill Bruford..

...although I don't know how that "original member" thing works. My understanding is that any past or present member can perform during the ceremony if the band allows it. Ian Gillan is not an original member of Deep Purple and he is being very vocal about not wanting Ritchie Blackmore, who is an original member, to be present.

But I can't even wrap my mind around every surviving member of King Crimson on one stage...holy cow.

[LynneSin]

11. Kinda why only Steve Miller is being inducted for the Steve Miller Band

I was reading the Wiki page and it seems all of the original members have passed away. And in the end the Steve Miller Band really is all about Steve Miller and his music. I think he wrote all of it anyways.

[Miles Archer]

14. Boz Scaggs and Abe Vigoda are both very much alive, thank you...

Scaggs was on the first album, so he qualifies as an original member. This is from the second album, "Sailor"...a rare lead vocal from Boz on "Dime A Dance Romance," which proves that early in the game, Steve loved to "borrow" other musicians' licks (let's just say that the song is a gas, gas, gas)...

[lastlib]

12. Until the MOODY BLUES get in, it's a hall of SHAME!!!

"A Question of Balance" and "Days of Future Passed" ALONE should guarantee their induction, to say nothing of their other works! PUT 'EM IN or stop calling yourselves a R&RHOF, 'cause without 'em, it ain't beans!

[U4ikLefty]

13. It's about time DP got in. I just wish Jon Lord was alive to see it.

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Now we need Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Yes, The Cars, the Moody Blues, King Crimson, Black Flag, Jethro Tull, the Guess Who, Doobie Brothers, ELP, Motorhead, Slayer, Toto, ELO, Scorpions, Devo, and the Cure.

Watching Rush get inducted & Alex's "Blah Blah Blah" speech in person was one of the best days of my life. After years of getting trashed by critics (and Jan Werner), it was Revenge of the Nerds.

[Miles Archer]

17. One of the greatest moments I've ever seen in a concert...

...was during the "Farewell to John Lord" Deep Purple concert, where he played his final DP concert and the torch was passed to Don Airey. Actually, Airey passes it to Lord first and then he passes it back. What's missing from this part is Airey's long solo, which he ends with a flourish as the stage goes dark and the next thing you see and hear is the beginning of this clip:

The amazing thing about Deep Purple, to me, is that the band had two alpha male musicians up front (although Lord was a much kinder and gentler counterpoint to Ritchie Blackmore's Nigel Tufnel-style tantrums). It's similar to Pete Townshend and John Entwistle in The Who. Entwistle was no simple "timekeeper." In the same way, so many of the riffs and melody lines and solos that people remember from Deep Purple come equally from Lord & Blackmore. They were the joint architects of the sound. That's why Blackmore was able to leave the band...twice...and the soldiered on. Airey has a lighter touch but he knows the field he's playing on.

On edit: After this concert, Lord made a gift of the keyboard he played to Airey.

[Number9Dream]

15. No Moody Blues, Kansas, Yes, Doobie Bros., ...

The R&R HOF is a joke! N.W.A. and Cheap Trick ahead of these musicians???

NOT in R&R HOF: Moody Blues, Kansas, Doobie Bros., Yes, Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson), King Crimson, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Mountain (Leslie West), Procol Harum, Robin Trower, Alvin Lee / Ten Years After,

[Enthusiast]

19. Huge +1!

[Enthusiast]

20. More

[Enthusiast]

21. And more....

[Enthusiast]

22. Too many!

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[Miles Archer]

24. "One of These Days" is probably my favorite TYA track, followed by...

..."Love Like A Man," but...

...the band made history by being one of the most talked-about acts at Woodstock. I'm not as fond of "I'm Going Home" these days because it now seems more like a Rick Derringer-styled exercise in excess than a song I actually want to hear, but albums like "Cricklewood Green" and "A Space In Time" are about as "Hall of Fame-worthy" as it gets. Agree on Trower, too. I have mixed feelings about his output as a whole, but the first two albums are still tens on a ten scale.

[Enthusiast]

25. I feel the same way about I'm Going Home. It was quite a show at Woodstock

and probably contributed to a number of additional blown minds.

I just love that old music.

[ArnoldLayne]

16. The Cars, The Moody Blues and Three Dog Night.

[IDemo]

18. I still can't find Tokayo on the globe.

[Miles Archer]

23. OR that "Rolling truck Stones thing"

This band is a mystery, if nothing else.