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Slade January 28 2013
In honor of my dear husband's 56th birthday, I am taking full reign today and giving him a break from unHOFfing off. Hee hee hee.... Today's Induction (11/01/2012): Slade With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones (boxing ring bell) this Brit Glam rock band has inspired many and are the epitome of pure entertainment. I feel that they are incredibly underrated. From their semi choreographed...Thin Lizzy January 28 2013
If ever there was a front man that had it ALL going on, it was Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott. A tall good-looking black Irishman, Phil wrote songs with wonderful lyrical twists and had an ear for melodies that took you places you didn't expect to go. PLUS... he had a wonderful voice and played bass like nobody's business. Today's induction (10/27/2012) Thin Lizzy Lynott started as vocalist for fellow...Big Star January 28 2013
I can't remember the first time that I heard about Big Star. Probably in a local throwaway magazine... maybe Marty Cerf's Phonograph Record Magazine which I used to read religiously. Somehow, they came on my radar... and I'm sure it had nothing to do with any promotion they were getting from their record label. Today's Induction (07/24/2012): Big Star If ever there was an organic spread of musical awareness...The Groundhogs January 28 2013
When I was around 14 years old, my taste in music changed considerably... well, maybe not as much taste, but what I was *exposed* to broadened my horizons. I began to hang out with guys that liked ONLY blues. They were livin' the blues in their little bedrooms at mom and dad's house. They had old time phonographs that could still play 78s (as many of the records that we...Family January 28 2013
"We didn't try to be different, it was never calculated... It was as naive and as honest as that." ~ Roger Chapman Today's Induction (09/16/2012): Family Family were on of those bands that I would walk into the record store, stare at their amazingly interesting album covers, and wonder what the band sounded like. In fact, even after getting one of their early albums like 'Music In A...New York Dolls January 28 2013
By 1972, my pals and I had an insatiable desire to find every weird (preferably SUPER weird!) rock band we could. We would scour the Melody Maker in search of goodies and just HOPE that one day they would visit us in Southern California. New York had started quite a scene and the band that really captured our imagination was The New York Dolls. So when it was announced...Sparks January 28 2013
As UK rock inched ever so closer to what would become the 1977 Punk Explosion, this band tied together concept, look and music better than nearly anyone. Today's Induction (10/11/2012): Sparks Sparks were two California guys that were flailing in their homeland, decided to pull up stakes (and were arrested by the Parks Department - apologies to Vivian Stanshall) and relocate to England. The two brothers, Ron and Russell...The Johnny Burnette Trio January 28 2013
I am preparing to leave the sixties but, before I do, I have to jump way back to the mid-fifties and right an incrdible wrong done by the yawnHOF... HOW on God's Green Earth can you have an institution called The "Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame" and not have the Johhnny Burnette Trio in it? Today's inductee: Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n'Roll Trio (04/19/12) Arguably, as influential as many of the...Procol Harum January 21 2013
"We skipped the light fandango turned cartwheels 'cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick but the crowd called out for more..." Today's Inductee: Procol Harum (04/07/12) I'll admit that I don't know a whole lot about Procol Harum. I got into them a bit late with the album Broken Barricades and, by that time, there was already rumblings of the Robin Trower split to follow his Hendrix muse. I...Roy Wood's Wizzard January 21 2013
If ever there was a man on fire with creativity, it was Roy Wood in the early seventies. After ending his popular group The Move with a flourish of amazing singles, putting the finishing touches on his one-man-band solo, 'Boulders,' and finally realizing his dream of meshing orchestra with rock group with the first album by Electric Light Orchestra... Roy was ONCE AGAIN looking to new horizons. Today's induction...Electric Light Orchestra January 21 2013
At their best, ELO incorporated the best of rock'n'roll tradition with a orchestra-derived boost that made their sound larger than life for a brief but exciting time in the mid-seventies.