The SDMB Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! {8th year added post 129}

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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.

126

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.

128

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.

129

Congratulations to The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Johnny Cash, and Otis Redding. This week’s ballot features mostly acts that debuted in 1968, which most people would say was a pretty good year. Lot of tough choices here, including returning candidates The Temptations, Booker T and the MGs, and John Lee Hooker. I personally am going to have to think about this one a while.

Vote for no more than three.

  • Booker T and the MGs
  • Ruth Brown
  • Cream
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • The Doors
  • Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
  • John Lee Hooker
  • Etta James
  • Van Morrison
  • Sly and the Family Stone
  • The Temptations
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OK, I guess I didn’t have to think about it that long. :stuck_out_tongue: