The SDMB Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! {7th year added post 123}

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Congratulations to the Byrds, Ike & Tina Turner, and Simon & Garfunkel. It’s a good week for ampersands.

Running list of inductees:

Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy HollyJames Brown, Little Richard, Aretha FranklinThe Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Beach BoysThe Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, The SupremesThe Who, The Kinks, Marvin GayeThe Byrds, Ike & Tina Turner, Simon & Garfunkel

This week’s ballot has the 1992 inductees, plus carryovers John Lee Hooker, Otis Redding, and The Temptations. Vote for your top three choices.

  • Bobby “Blue” Bland
  • Booker T and the MGs
  • Johnny Cash
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • John Lee Hooker
  • The Isley Brothers
  • Otis Redding
  • Sam & Dave
  • The Temptations
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And it just occurred to me that I could say the exact same thing (give or take a year or two) in defense of my vote for John Lee Hooker!

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This is the easiest of the votes for me so far: Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and John Lee Hooker.

I don’t know Bobby Bland (which probably says more about me than him). Booker T almost gets in on the strength and ubiquitousness of “Green Onions” alone, but it takes more than one song for this poll. I might vote for the Isley Brothers and Otis Redding against lesser competition.

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Booker T & the MGs are on nearly every record released by Stax Records; Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Picket, Albert King, The Blues Brothers fer-fricken-sake. “One song” is the last phrase that should ever be applied to the MGs. Would you say the Wrecking Crew is just about “one song”?

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I don’t know, I have trouble voting for a band based on them being the house band for other great artists. Maybe I should realign my thinking, but that’s how I landed where I did.

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I have to agree with @Elmer_J.Fudd on this one. And the RRHOF has a “sideman” category. But since this poll doesn’t, both Booker T. and the Wrecking Crew would get my vote.