OTOH I love the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Glad they got inducted.

There were certainly better ones (Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Can, Amon Duul II).

Post-Ziggy/Young Americans Bowie, and a whole lot of other stuff that's already in the R&RHOF, would simply not exist without what the British Music Press decided to call "Krautrock." A genre based entirely upon race, as most of the artists sounded radically different from one another.

As for Ringo, a drummer with a rock solid backbeat and a no-frills style is not B-grade. A drummer playing for a primarily vocal band would be B-grade if he tried to hog the spotlight and indulged in long solos.

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And Leon Russell last year, thanks to Elton John. The Hall of Fame is beyond political.

Now I'm on a crusade for Rory Gallagher - def one of my top 5 favs. My husband wore out his old Rory t-shirt, so I got him another one. PLEASE listen to him. Jimi Hendrix even said Rory was the better ax player - and he was!

as well as The Doobie Brothers

Until that happens the Hall of Fame is marred

Unless i missed something, i don't think they're HoF.

Nobody sounded like them before. Nobody sounded like them since. Most underrated great guitar player of all time. Clever, hummable tunes. Millions of records sold.

Should have stayed home and listened to the CDs. Just the same as Steely Dan. Awful in concert. Millions of records sold shouldn't have the criteria for the HOF at all.

Wait - CDs didn't come out commercially til 1982. I meant vinyl - still have them. I loved the Cars - they just sucked live.

And i've got two DVD's of them live. I think you may have got stuck with a bad night. They were good once, excellent the other time, and the DVD's are pretty good and very good.

And, while you may not think commercial success shouldn't be a criterion, it certainly is. There is no denying that commercial success increases the probability of HoF entry.

Kraftwerk would make sense to me because they were pioneers. All the techno garbage that's out there today can trace its roots back to Kraftwerk, but Chic?

...Yes, Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson), King Crimson, Chicago, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Mountain (Leslie West), Procol Harum, Robin Trower, Alvin Lee / Ten Years After, others.

The R&R hall of fame is a joke, just like the Grammys.

Picked up a LP of there's on a whim a few weeks ago. Surprised by the quality of the music. But you're right, not in the same league as Kraftwerk

I was twelvish, and the local teens and twenties listened to Hendrix, Cream, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, etc ... Many were bikers ...

It was very blues based, and I frankly tired of that genre pretty quickly - Blues are a Rite of Passage for guitarists, and you have to pick some of that up along the way, but I was more of a psychedelic rock fan ...

Here's some Kraftwerk ... Their minimalist synthesis compositions were groundbreaking and are highly influential even today: