# What members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have you seen live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059 "2014-01-17T14:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/101 "2014-01-21T20:21:36Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > All very cool - thank you for the inside scoop, **Bo**. Sounds like Ginger saves his irascibility for the press and perhaps some of the musicians he’s worked with 😉 All of the clips I’ve ever seen of him where he was dickish seemed, to me, to be situations where he was exasperated with people and simply could not understand that other people have different priorities than he does (and also possibly not understanding that not everyone has the same level of intelligence). IMO he seems to be a classic example of a very smart and talented person who isn’t quite as socialized as everyone around him, in part because he has always stood out from the people around him. I know lots of people (geeks, nerds, etc.) who are like that. I’d be surprised if the vast majority of Dopers don’t either know someone like that or fit that description themselves to some degree. I think one of the reasons our conversation went well was that I specifically did not ask him about himself. We talked about music (but not musicians) and politics and drugs and the Gulf War and lots of stuff, but I never asked him about Cream or what it was like being a Drug God or what kind of drum sticks her used or anything stupid like that; we were just two regular guys talking about “stuff” while we shared some ganj. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/102 "2014-01-21T20:55:26Z")
Not very many, but more than I realized! There are a number of people I have seen perform solo or in alternate bands, but who are in the Hall of Fame as part of their main band. Crosby, Stills & Nash Paul McCartney Bruce Springsteen Aerosmith Tom Petty and the Heartbrakers Bob Seeger ZZ Top Pretenders Black Sabbath Lynyrd Skynyrd ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/103 "2014-01-21T21:42:58Z")
All before induction, except as noted The Rolling Stones (before & after) The Kinks The Who David Bowie Pink Floyd (post-Waters) Paul McCartney Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (inducted separately) The Ramones The Clash Elvis Costello and the Attractions ZZ Top Sex Pistols R.E.M. Van Halen (and Van Hagar, both line-ups are in the hall) Guns and Roses Red Hot Chili Peppers In the “saw them solo, not with the band they were inducted with” category: Ray Manzarek Iggy Pop Ray Davies (that’s in addition to the Kinks shows) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/104 "2014-01-21T23:15:15Z")
Johnny Cash (twice) and Genesis. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/105 "2014-01-22T03:50:11Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > You saw Alice and you don’t know what sex Alice is?" Does Alice even know? ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/106 "2014-01-22T04:31:27Z")
Quite a few of them: Chuck Berry (before) James Brown (after) Ray Charles (after) Bo Diddley (not sure, maybe both before and after) B.B. King (before and after) Bob Dylan (before and after) The Kinks (before) John Lee Hooker (before and after) Bobby Blue Bland (before) Ruth Brown (before) Etta James (before) The Band (after, but not with a couple of the original members) Grateful Dead (before and after) Bruce Springsteen (before) Bonnie Raitt (before and after) James Taylor (after) Paul Simon (before) Traffic (before) Buddy Guy (before) Miles Davis (before) Dr. John (before) Albert King (before) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/107 "2014-01-22T05:29:13Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > All of the clips I’ve ever seen of him where he was dickish seemed, to me, to be situations where he was exasperated with people and simply could not understand that other people have different priorities than he does (and also possibly not understanding that not everyone has the same level of intelligence). IMO he seems to be a classic example of a very smart and talented person who isn’t quite as socialized as everyone around him, in part because he has always stood out from the people around him. I know lots of people (geeks, nerds, etc.) who are like that. I’d be surprised if the vast majority of Dopers don’t either know someone like that or fit that description themselves to some degree. > > I think one of the reasons our conversation went well was that I specifically did not ask him about himself. We talked about music (but not musicians) and politics and drugs and the Gulf War and lots of stuff, but I never asked him about Cream or what it was like being a Drug God or what kind of drum sticks her used or anything stupid like that; we were just two regular guys talking about “stuff” while we shared some ganj. Have you seen _Beware of Mr. Baker_? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/W5seWMYG9kk/hqdefault.jpg "Hot Docs Trailers 2012: BEWARE OF MR. BAKER") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5seWMYG9kk) (NSFW language) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/108 "2014-01-22T06:07:05Z")
B.B. King The Beach Boys Dion The Rolling Stones The Kinks Bobby “Blue” Bland Booker T. & the M.G.'s Van Morrison The Band Grateful Dead Elton John The Allman Brothers Band Frank Zappa David Bowie Crosby, Stills & Nash Santana Billy Joel Paul McCartney Eric Clapton James Taylor Paul Simon Steely Dan Ramones Elvis Costello & the Attractions The Police Traffic U2 Black Sabbath John Mellencamp Run-D.M.C Genesis Jimmy Cliff Beastie Boys Red Hot Chili Peppers Rush Peter Gabriel I saw all of them (at least for the first time) before induction. Some, like CSN, The Stones, Allmans and Traffic - before and after. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/109 "2014-01-22T07:42:30Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Does Alice even know? Yes. I would say so. Despite the name and the make-up (and unlike quite a lot of other performers one could mention) there is nothing particularly androgynous or sexually ambiguous about Alice Cooper, or even about his stage persona. He is a guy (AFAIK entirely straight), and does not pretend or even hint otherwise. The name was never originally supposed to apply to him personally anyway. It was the name of the band in which he was lead singer. As the band’s frontman, he managed to hang onto the name when the band broke up, which enabled him to hang on to the fanbase. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/110 "2014-01-22T17:52:16Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Yes. I would say so. Despite the name and the make-up (and unlike quite a lot of other performers one could mention) there is nothing particularly androgynous or sexually ambiguous about Alice Cooper, or even about his stage persona. He is a guy (AFAIK entirely straight), and does not pretend or even hint otherwise. I was going to post the same thing. I’m sure one can find pictures of him in drag, but he’s mostly known as a shock rock kind of guy and his stage personas are masculine in nature. Motorhead has opened for Alice before, but I can’t find anything about Alice ever opening for Motorhead. He’s opened for big bands like Black Sabbath and Iron maiden, but I can’t see him being Motorhead’s opening act. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/111 "2014-01-22T18:57:43Z")
Carl Perkins The Rolling Stones Bruce Springsteen James Taylor Elvis Costello Pretenders U2 R.E.M. The Crickets ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/112 "2014-01-23T00:07:34Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > The name was never originally supposed to apply to him personally anyway. It was the name of the band in which he was lead singer. As the band’s frontman, he managed to hang onto the name when the band broke up, which enabled him to hang on to the fanbase. Not so; the Alice Cooper name was always used for \*both \*the singer and the band, as far back as the first album. It was even commented on in their lyrics(“She asked me why the singer’s name was Alice”). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/113 "2014-01-23T01:37:08Z")
More than I thought: The Who The Band Eagles Fleetwood Mac Billy Joel Bruce Springsteen Eric Clapton Earth, Wind and Fire Bonnie Raitt James Taylor Talking Heads Elvis Costello (w/o the Attractions) Prince ZZ Top Neil Diamond Tom Waits Heart Police Big Joe Turner Muddy Waters Not the Grateful Dead per se, but “Jerry Garcia and Friends”, which consisted of most of the band Didn’t go though the timeline in detail, but I’m pretty sure all were before induction. ---
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Billy Joel Rush Pink Floyd Alice Cooper Peter Gabriel I don’t go to a lot of concerts–I tend to see the same artists/bands multiple times. ---
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At least 36 of them … probably a few more that have been lost in the haze. ---
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Chuck Berry - Before And in the Why-the-Hell-Aren’t-They-Inducted-Yet Category, Weird Al Yankovic, multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/117 "2014-01-23T19:06:07Z")
Only two: The Rolling Stones (Voodoo Lounge tour? Around 1992) and Buddy Guy (last year in Colorado Springs). ---
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> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Not so; the Alice Cooper name was always used for \*both \*the singer and the band, as far back as the first album. It was even commented on in their lyrics(“She asked me why the singer’s name was Alice”). It was a sort of persona he adopted on stage as part of the band’s act, perhaps, but I do not think it was originally intended to be understood as _his_ name, even in the sense of a stage name. It was a bit like how Eminem (itself a stage name) performs some of the time in the character of Slim Shady. During the band’s lifetime, I do not believe Furnier was ever considered to be its leader, although,of course, as frontman he got most of the publicity. From Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit “I’m Eighteen” from the album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single “School’s Out” in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. > > Furnier adopted the band’s name as his own name in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. > > … [Further down] … > > In 1975, Alice Cooper returned as a solo project with the release of Welcome to My Nightmare. To avoid legal complications over ownership of the group name, Alice Cooper had by then become the singer’s new legal name. As I understand it, the rest of the band were very upset that Furnier had manage to seize legal control of the _Alice Cooper_ name when he went solo, meaning that they could no longer perform under it (as they felt they had the right to do) when they reformed. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/119 "2014-01-23T20:56:26Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > but I do not think it was originally intended to be understood as _his_ name, even in the sense of a stage name. From an article written in 1969 (the year their first album was released): > [@](#): > > A word or two of background information would be in order first. The group, originally known as The Spiders and then The Nazz (not to be confused with another currently popular group bearing the same name), originated it Tempe and soon got to be quite well known in the Phoenix area before splitting for Los Angeles. > > It was around then that the band’s leader changed his name and the name of the group to Alice Cooper. The reason for the name change, according to a published interview with Alice by Johnny Neat, was that it had been discovered that the spirit of a girl named Alice Cooper who lived in the 17th century had taken over his body two years before. Alice, incidently, appears on the LP liner in a dress. > **[Articles](https://www.alicecooperechive.com/articles/index.php?magazineList=ariz&articleList=690500)** > > An extensive archive of Alice Cooper magazine and newspaper appearances from 1964 to the present day ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059/120 "2014-01-23T21:04:21Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > It was a sort of persona he adopted on stage as part of the band’s act, perhaps, but I do not think it was originally intended to be understood as _his_ name, even in the sense of a stage name. Of course it was. It’s how he was identified on the album covers and even in the songwriting credits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-members-of-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-have-you-seen-live/679059.md?page=7)