![]() PHOTOS: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2013Īs the clock neared 12:30 a.m., it was an honor to finally leave, too. Don Henley said Newman’s honor was “shamefully overdue” from “this peculiar, perplexing organization.” Donna Summer’s widower, Bruce Sudano, made the most polite of allusions to the idea that it would have been nice if she’d been elected before she died in May, “but we decided as a family that we would lean on the sweet side of the occasion.” Jones, 80, cracked repeatedly that he “didn’t want to get inducted too early” after presenter Oprah Winfrey pointedly remarked on “a career that has spanned SEVEN DECADES.” Foo Fighter Dave Grohlmade a crack at the expense of allegedly prog-rock-dissing Rolling Stone magazine before saying “it is our honor to FINALLY induct Rush into the Hall of Fame.” After Wenner allowed that it had been “way too f-ing long” since the ceremony was held in L.A., most of the presenters that followed seemed to want to implicitly blame Wenner and his board for taking way too f–ing long to vote in the evening’s winners. Fortunately, after some initial booing and shouting at Wenner and a growing chorus of catcalls from the balcony when Flavor Flav overstayed his welcome on stage by about a month, the crowd mostly managed to be patient while waiting more than four hours for their Canuck heroes to cap the event. You might have mistook the Nokia as hosting a Rush fan convention, to which Newman, Heart, Public Enemy, Lou Adler and Quincy Jones had been invited as incongruous guests. Wenner had merely to say the words “From Toronto …” at the outset of the show for the crowd to erupt in a noisy, lengthy standing ovation. If anything, downtown Los Angeles became Little Toronto for the night, thanks to the paying audience’s single-minded focus on a certain Canadian act. ![]() The show’s SoCal focus pretty much started and ended there, though. The second time through for me, got to the core of the genius of the speech.But thanks to the shift west, inductee Randy Newman - and his backup singers/guitarists Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and John Fogerty (pictured below) - could open the show with “I Love L.A.” with only the usual amount of intended irony, instead of an extra bicoastal dose. And he runs no risk of being "quoted out of context". Then went on to finally getting the phone call, thanking everyone, and ending with the fans. He was able to say, "what the fuck" without saying it. He even "blahed" Geddy's vocals, and Peart's drumming. He basically said what was on his mind, but in pantomime. The first time through was funny, but I didn't get the full impact of it until I saw it again. I have not seen this happen before, and I go out of my way to see this event, as there are cool things go down constantly. They were respectful, and supportive of the other artists, and seemed to have a good time, but when the Rush portion came, they went bonkers. Also, the crowd was loaded for the event with Rush fans. ![]() That managed in a good humored way to say what was so special about Rush, and ask the question, why so long for the induction? And Neil Peart and Geddy Lee gave thoughtful speeches. The last group inducted, (or indicted as Cheech Marin put it), was Rush.Ī wonderful induction speech by Dave Grohl, and Taylor Hawkins. I managed to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on HBO this weekend, mot of it a second time.
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