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Name: devilsadvocate
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Subject: RE: Stones honur Ronnie
Date: Monday, June 29, 2015
Time: 9:36:19 AM
Remote Address: 135.19.17.210
Message ID: 295747
Parent ID: 295743
Thread ID: 295618
They didn't even think enough of Ronnie to make him a full fledged member of the band until 1993! Now he gets honored? This whole thing is not a big deal and I could care less...it's just very weird to me.
What Sway said. I also find it weird.
I came across an old article yesterday. I found it on an old Skynyrd board that I'm lifting material from (with the owner's permission.) I don't know where this was published, but it describes the RRHOF induction night in 2006. Read the part about Blondie. Goes to show that the Stones may not be so bad after all! I'm only copying and pasting the portion of the article that seems relevant to the discussion.
Strange Night At Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
NEW YORK, March 14, 2006
Blondie was feuding, Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne was charming and the Sex Pistols were absent - making for an eventful Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
In its 21st year, the hall also welcomed jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose barroom standard "Free Bird" echoed off the walls of the stately grand ballroom in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel as midnight arrived.
Blondie's induction was unusually ugly. The band reformed in 1999 behind leaders Deborah Harry and Chris Stein but left out members Frank Infante, Nigel Harrison and Gary Valentine. Infante and Harrison sued unsuccessfully to rejoin.
They all stood onstage uncomfortably Monday before Infante pleaded with Harry to let the outcasts perform one more time with Blondie.
"Debbie, are we allowed?" Infante said.
She curtly refused, and Infante groaned loudly before leaving the stage. The now red-haired Harry seemed alternately crestfallen and angry as she performed the band's hits "Heart of Glass," "Rapture" and "Call Me."
"They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned," Stein said later backstage. "They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together."
The Sex Pistols had turned down their honor in a profane letter that compared the hall to "urine in wine," true to the spirit of the lacerating lyrics in "God Save the Queen" and "Pretty Vacant."
Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner read the letter in its entirety, and invited the band to pick up their trophies at the rock hall in Cleveland.
"If they want to smash them into bits, they can do that, too," Wenner said.
All the animosity left Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King bemused backstage.
"Oddly enough, while we usually have our squabbles, we were the one band tonight that seemed to get along OK," he said.
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