Consider it a sign of the times, maybe: In the list of seven artists that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s select industry voters elected into the institution for the class of 2022, there is not a single rock band.
, too, is now a three-time loser, as of this year’s voting. How about A Tribe Called Quest, a hip-hop group that is a great rock ‘n’ roll band in just about every way but the most literal one? Not them, either.
That’s not to say there will be no rockers getting their gold when the induction ceremony happens in Los Angeles Nov. 5.will be entering the Rock Hall that night, but not because the band was voted in by the hall’s 1,000-plus industry voters.
So the fact that the Hall didn’t put in any bands through the front door this year — after going for the Go-Go’s and Foo Fighters last year, on top of favoring classic rock with Todd Rundgren, or voting in T. Rex, Nine Inch Nails and the Doobies the year before, etc. — raises a host of questions.
Having said that I favor the rock-as-big-tent philosophy, though… I feel for the rock knee-jerks this year. I can even sense my own leg starting to twitch a little. But it’s not that I want to katy-bar the Cleveland doors against Lionel Richie. It’s just that I’d like to see Richie get in after Devo, or any of a couple dozen other bands I can think of that changed the course of rock ‘n’ roll in small or major ways.
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