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Steppenwolf, The Zombies
good choices.
Steppenwolf, The Zombies
Their time has come today. (Sadly, no.)
NWA Isn't either. that's a real head scratcher
here's a more obscure group that I think ought to be in RR HOF due to being cutting edge at the time
THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS!
There's a lot of news now about inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I have visited there, and it's an excellent institution. There are, however, some omissions. I'm told these derive mainly from personal prejudices of the Hall's founder. The point of this thread though is to name the person, persons or group you think has been unfairly omitted.
For me that would be the Doobie Brothers, one of my all-time favorite bands.
Yeah that's just stupid. But hey, look how long it took the Moody Blues. No rhyme or reason.
Donovan was one of the founders of psychedelic rock. his "Hurdy-Gurdy Man (featuring future LZ members Page and Jones) is one of the cutting edge PR tunes of all time.
Canned Heat?
Ted Nugent, assuming political reasons.
Growing up in the Detroit area during the Sixties and Seventies, I must have attended two dozen shows where Nugent was playing and I always considered his bands to be some of the lesser talent of the bill. Local Groups like Scott Richard Case (SRC), Savage Grace, and of course the MC5 were always far better and far more entertaining, And even some of the minor bands that opened were better than anything Nugent did. But then I was never a fan of the three minute self indulgent guitar solo which had nothing to do with the song itself.
Boston, Guess Who, 3 Dog Night, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Joe Cocker, Tommy James and the Shondells, J. Geils, Carole King, Cold Blood
There's a lot of news now about inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I have visited there, and it's an excellent institution. There are, however, some omissions. I'm told these derive mainly from personal prejudices of the Hall's founder. The point of this thread though is to name the person, persons or group you think has been unfairly omitted.
For me that would be the Doobie Brothers, one of my all-time favorite bands.
Growing up in the Detroit area during the Sixties and Seventies, I must have attended two dozen shows where Nugent was playing and I always considered his bands to be some of the lesser talent of the bill. Local Groups like Scott Richard Case (SRC), Savage Grace, and of course the MC5 were always far better and far more entertaining, And even some of the minor bands that opened were better than anything Nugent did. But then I was never a fan of the three minute self indulgent guitar solo which had nothing to do with the song itself.
My first wife went to work for Scott Richardson when he evolved into a screenwriter.
Here he is hanging out with Donovan and his wife Linda.
Greens – a specialized set dresser dealing with the artistic arrangement or landscape design of plant material. Sometimes real and sometimes artificial and usually a combination of both. Depending upon the amount of greens work in a film, the greensman may report to the art director or may report to the production designer.
Now that is soon coool!!!!!! Thanks much for that info.
I did not know he went into film. Wikipedia says he worked on sets for 2 LORD OF THE RINGS films. Do you know if that was the Bakshi film or the later ones.
EDIT: just looked him up on IMDB and it said he worked on all three Jackson films and discredited for "greens".
and greens are
This is so weird!!!!! Those films are my favorites and this guys band was one of my favorites back in the day. WOW!!!!
I loved their first album with "Hall of the Mountain King/Bolero" on it. And they were always tremendous live. They used to do a version of Heat Wave that was really innovative. One of the best groups to come out of Michigan during that period.
He was a screenwriter.
He wrote several scripts for Ray Manzarek and also wrote "Hearts of Fire" which starred Bob Dylan and Fiona.
The movie tanked so badly that director Richard Marquand died of a heart attack.
The studio accepted Scott's draft, but then turned around and said that because Scott was a "baby writer", they needed to bring in Joe Eszterhas to "punch up the script".
I saw both versions of the script and Eszterhas ruined the film.
He also wrote a bunch of scripts for episodes of "Quantum Leap" (TV Show) and a script for "The Jackie Wilson Story" which was bought by Suzanne dePasse and then shelved, never to be seen again.
My first wife was his business manager, and as it turned out, also his piece on the side, which of course ended our marriage.
Very sorry to hear that.
Thanks for the career info.
I survived...neither of them did. He's still alive but he's circling the drain pretty bad, all self inflicted.
She passed away last year, never quite got sober.
So I count my blessings, and I've got a much better wife now
Well the winner is often the survivor -and that seems to be you - so thats a good thing. And you traded up so that makes you a double winner.
Since he worked on LOTR - I wonder if he has any "souvenirs" he took from the production that might be made available for sale? Would you know anything about that?
I couldn't tell you, I am still friends with his ex-wife...she's very precious to me but I have not spoken to him since maybe 1996 at the latest. Rita tells me he's really ill, and that's about all I know. He's still getting around sort of but not doing well.