So, the rock hall nominations were released last week and, per usual, the list included a few ?Well, duh, of course they should get in,? along with a couple of ?Wait, they?re not in already?? and one or two ?Really, them? Before artist X??
Anyway, usually after the announcement, I get a few irate emails/calls from folks wondering what the hell those rock hall nominators are smoking in New York City. And I have no idea, in part, because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which chooses the nominees, wants it that way.
Transparency is not a part of the process and likely never will be as the international voting body of more than 600 ?artists, historians and members of the music industry,? that votes for the inductees from the group of nominees, generally doesn?t seem to give a crap about what the fans (you know, the folks who made these artists potential hall of famers) think about the credibility of the rock hall.
Nevertheless, for the first time, the foundation is throwing fans a tiny bone this voting cycle by allowing them to have a collective vote (and pushing up the page-hit counts for rockhall.com, hbo.com, cnn.com and rollingstone.com, where fans can cast votes). In other words, if 50 or 50,000 music fans vote for, oh, let?s say Rush, when the time comes to tally the votes, those 50 or 50,000 votes will collectively count as one vote ? versus the other 600 voters whose votes will count as one per voter.
It?ll be interesting to see whether the rock hall will be transparent with the fan-vote count.
Another aspect of the process that may affect the result is that I?ve always had the feeling (and this is based on absolutely no solid information) that the bulk of the voters are of a certain age.
I think that many of the 600 voters are friends and associates of rock hall executives, so their age would likely be within a decade or so of rock hall bigwig Jann Wenner?s 66 years and the hall?s biggest bigwig Ahmet Ertegun?s 83 years (at the time of his death in 2006).
I hope I?m wrong, and that there are at least a few folks under 50 casting votes or that the voting body is on a rotational system like many corporate boards of directors (perhaps that?s how Rush and Deep Purple slipped in this year).
If not, the nominations might get more odd as we move into potential nominees from the early 1990s if voters still try to get their favorites in while shutting out those they hate and wondering who all the ?90s bands are on the list.
(?Nirvana? I know them, yes! But, say Jann, what the hell is a Wu-Tang Clan? Some kinda racist Chinese rock band??)
Acoustic show in Canton
If you are a fan of Grey?s Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, Vampire Diaries, Parenthood, The Big C, Hellcats, In Plain Sight, Ugly Betty, Army Wives and/or Target, Ritz and Old Navy commercials, then you likely have heard the ukulele-laced music of indie pop singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson.
The Staten Island-bred soprano makes music that is perfect for quiet coffeehouses as well as (obviously) providing the necessary emotional music bed for a close-up of Dr. McSteamy looking longingly at Nurse McGleamy or whomever is the object of his affection, I don?t watch that show.
Michaelson, who released her fifth album in January, will play an acoustic show at the Canton Palace Theatre at 8 tonight. The concert is being called a Homeless Benefit Concert and is a collaboration between ICAN Housing Solutions, Alliance for Children & Families and the YWCA of Canton.
Michaelson is on a 25-date tour for Human Again, which hit No. 1 on iTunes and made the Top 5 on the Billboard charts. She is making a special stop in Canton at the behest of her aunt Margaret Egbert, executive director of the Canton YWCA, and the singer?s own desire to help folks.
The opening act will be her tour partners, the groovy, retro-bluesy, rock ?n? roll duo Sugar & the Hi Lows.
?Ripper? comes home
Tim ?Ripper? Owens briefly will return to his hometown and restaurant this weekend to play his first show at his Ripper Owens Tap House in five months.
It?ll be a free, all-ages, early evening, acoustic show marking the end of his band?s European tour and the start of the U.S. tour (seriously, the dude works constantly), and as he says, it will be ?nice and early and after the Browns game, most likely you will need something to cheer you up. LOL.? Ouch.
Speaking of which, I hope everyone shows some patience (I know, it?s been 13 years, but what?s a couple of more?) with young(ish) Brandon Weeden, T-Rich and the Browns? banged-up, young offense.
We all know that Browns President Mike Holmgren is likely already strapping his golden parachute to his Harley for his seemingly inevitable (0-5!) ride back to the West Coast. But defensive coordinator Dick Jauron has the defense playing, ah, football, and the young offensive weapons show promise.
Perhaps, whichever receiver chosen by soon-to-be owner Jimmy Haslam III?s front office in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft can show Greg Little how to actually catch the ball (and not tweet verbal middle fingers to the fan base after he has a bad game).
Malcolm X Abram can be reached at 330-996-3758 or by email at mabram@thebeaconjournal.com. He?s also on Facebook as Malcolm X Abram. ? Go figure.
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