Inspired in part by the threads here complaining about those absent from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in part by the thread about jewsrock.org and its legal battle with the Rock Hall on their proposed Jewish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I thought we could (should?) put together our own alternate rockhall.
I changed the name to Rock'n'Roll's All-Time All-Stars for no real good reason (is RATAS a good acronym?).
Here are my proposed guidelines. Please discuss, revise, comment. If we want to do this, I guess I'll determine the final 'rules' and proceed with nominations in another thread...
1) Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first full length album in either UK or USA. (So we'll have some catching up to do... I thought we'd first to a 1965 and before and then do a couple years at a time.) Solo artist and bands they were a part of are separately eligible and should be evaluated on separate careers. Non-performers not eligible.
2) Criteria based upon contribution to, influence upon and importance in the history and present of rock and roll music.
3) Any artist can be nominated for relevant year.
4) Anyone can vote. A positive vote, Yes, indicates a vote for admission. Any other action (a vote against or an abstension with respect to this artist) is counted as a vote against admission.
5) Any candidate receiving 75% votes for admission (based on the total number of ballots received) is admitted. Any candidate receiving 50% vote for admission is carried over to the next year's (or group of year's) vote. Candidates receiving less than 50% are rejected.
Without reading this over or giving it much thought at all, I'm pressing submit
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)
change rule 1) to artists become eligible for induction 25 seconds after we've first heard of them as this lets in annie from norway kthnx.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)
I'll start it off with an easy, first ballot nomination to try out the voting process...
Jimi Hendrix - First studio album, "Are You Experienced," released in the UK in 1967.
Contribution to rock - expanded the electric guitar's vocabulary immensely through the use of special effects, injected Southern-fried soul and blues into the growing psychedelic scene of the mid to late 60s, showed Cream that it was alright to wear blouses.
Influence upon rock - while everyone can argue about SOME of their influences, anyone who is playing electric guitar today has, either directly or indirectly, taken something from Jimi Hendrix. And that was from THREE studio albums released during his life. THREE.
Importance - He closed Woodstock with the Star Spangled Banner. He trumped the Who at Monterey. He wore orange velour jumpsuits onstage in the 60s. Dude...its JIMI HENDRIX. Come ON.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)
Change rule 1 to "first single" as albums are shit kthxbye.
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)
change rule 1 to "artists become eligible for induction at birth."
and then add rule 6: "any candidate can be voted OUT of the hall in any subsequent year after induction. inductees receiving 75% REMOVE votes in any given year are ejected. inductees receiving 50% REMOVE votes are moved to the top of the REMOVE ballot the following year."
i believe this will make our hall interesting and inviting to people under the age of, say, 30. get eminem in there now. let future voters decide if he gets to stay.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, that's the same reason why I clicked on the thread title.
― Deluxe (Damian), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)
For one thing, they're all stars in Yes! Jon! And Rick! And Chris! And Steve! And er the drummer!
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)